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IPSource

Fast, reliable online research of the broadest premium IP resource

 

Get to the right piece of information with ease and precision

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     Seamlessly integrated information

     Custom search templates

     Search-within-a-search

KeyCite Canada

  Instantly verifies whether a case is good law

  Allows you to note-up all types of legislation—statutes, rules, and regulations

  KeyCite Alert® tracks legislation, cases, and rules to keep you informed of up-to-the-minute changes that may impact the legal sources you are relying on

Research Trail

  Allows you to keep track of every search you run, every document you view, every link you follow, and every citation you check

Case Law Collection

Reported Cases

  Only IPSource provides access to the complete CPR from Canada Law Book, including its head notes, annotations and taxonomy.

Unreported Cases:

  Only IPSource offers an exclusive collection of unreported IP cases including the Fox Reports, the Canadian Intellectual Property Reporter (C.I.P.R., Carswell) and all relevant tribunals and statutes (English and French), and regulations

  The tribunal collection includes Commissioner of Patents, Patent Appeal Board, Patent Appeal Board & Commissioner of Patents (English & French), Patent Review Board (replaced by Patent Appeal Board)

Legislation

  Contains the full text of all federal, provincial and territorial legislation essential to intellectual property, information technology and electronic-commerce law practice

  Only IPSource allows you to note-up all types of legislation—statutes, rules, and regulations

Related Materials

  Only IPSource provides you with access to statutes and regulations selected and commented upon by the editors from Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Commentary

     Only IPSource offers online access to premium commentary fully integrated with other resources:

o         Canadian Copyright Act — Annotated Robic Leger (Carrière)

o         Canadian Trade-marks Act — Annotated Robic Leger (Richard)

o         Copyright - Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (McKeown)

o         Fox on Canadian Law of Copyright and Industrial Designs (McKeown)

o         Fox on Canadian Law of Trade-marks and Unfair Competition (Joliffe & Gill)

o         Intellectual Property Disputes: Resolutions and Remedies (Dimock)

o         Life Sciences Law in Canada (Blanchard)

o         Odutola on Canadian Trade-mark Practice (Odutola and Bourbonnais)

o         Passing Off - Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (Durbin)

o         Patents of Invention - Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (Morrow)

o         Radio and Television - Copyright - Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (Eccles)

o         Technology Contracting: Law, Precedents and Commentary (Limpert)

o         Torts - Appropriation of Personality - Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (Durbin)

o         Trademarks and Industrial Design - Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (Kratz)

Current Awareness Resources

     Dimock Stratton's  Intellectual Property Law Newsletter

o      A monthly round-up of cases selected by Dimock Stratton with a short commentary on their significance

o      A monthly editorial on developing trends or issues in IP practice and law.

o      Case summaries and classifications provided by Thomson Carswell editors.

  Carswell's Intellectual Property Journal (from 1997) 

Covers matters of interest relating to patents, trade-marks, copyright, designs, trade secrets and competitive torts. Each issue has a reasonable mix of all these areas. The focus of the material is primarily Canadian. Includes book reviews and commentary on significant cases.

  University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal (from 2003)

A bilingual (French and English), faculty-run, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to scholarly articles on all aspects of law and technology. The Journal is interested in work on all aspects of this field, regardless of the type of technology, substantive area of law at issue, or theoretical or philosophical focus.

International Resources

     Patent Practitioner Core

     IP Primary

     IP Analytical

 

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