Mondaq

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) recently released for consultation two important Guidelines respecting the Consumer Protection Framework set out in the Budget Implementation Act, 2018.

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JULY 11, 2024

Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek First Nation (also known as Grassy Narrows), located in Ontario, Canada, highlighted Thursday the severe impact of mercury contamination on their community before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in the first virtual public hearing in the case.

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The Fashion Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Canada Goose is coming under fire in China in connection with marketing claims that its buzzy down coats are made from “the warmest material from Hutterite.”

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JURIST

MAY 25, 2022

On Friday May 13th, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its judgment in the case of R v Brown , rejecting the constitutionality of section 33.1 Respectively, these sections protect the right to life, liberty, and security of the person, and the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty when charged with a criminal offence.

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The Fashion Law

AUGUST 12, 2021

Canada Goose, for instance, is currently in the midst of a false advertising suit for allegedly misleading consumers about the nature of the trapping methods used to source the fur for its buzzy jackets by claiming that it is dedicated to “the ethical, responsible, and sustainable sourcing and use of real fur.”.

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Customs & International Trade Law

JULY 29, 2022

Customs and Border Protection. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) officers at the Area Port of Norfolk-Newport News, Va., consumers, and on the effectiveness of the Act in promoting drug-related crop eradication and crop substitution efforts by beneficiary countries. On July 18, 2022, the U.S. On July 19, 2022, the U.S.

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Law 360

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday it has inked an agreement with Canada's privacy regulator to share information and cooperate on enforcement actions to protect consumers' data.

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JULY 22, 2022

Trade Representative reached an agreement with Canada limiting the export from Canada and the import into the United States of certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells (whether or not partially or fully assembled into other products) (CSPV products). Customs and Border Protection . USTR announced that the U.S.

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Mondaq

JUNE 23, 2022

On June 15, 2022, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, François-Phillippe Champagne introduced Bill C-27,

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The Fashion Law

AUGUST 19, 2021

d/b/a Warby Parker is engaging in “continuing trademark infringement, unfair competition, and deceptive advertising practices” in an effort to attract consumers given its status as a “new entrant in the online contact lens marketplace.”.

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Mondaq

MAY 9, 2022

Consumer law in Québec remains in constant evolution, and the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) continues to be the subject of many court decisions each month.

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Customs & International Trade Law

AUGUST 31, 2021

By enforcing its standards, NOP ensures a level playing field for producers while protecting consumer confidence in the integrity of the USDA organic seal. Currently, the NOP maintains equivalency arrangements with the following countries/international organizations: Canada. and foreign government’s system. European Union.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 30, 2021

It’s best to make your questions and answers consumer-focused — with little or no legalese. to Canada to specifically help convert internet browsers into right-fit clients for lawyers in family law, and has been used by both small boutique firms and family law groups within larger full-service national firms. .”

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The Fashion Law

JANUARY 4, 2022

With such ever-growing competition in mind, brands appear to be increasingly eager to clamp down on perceived copycat products in order to protect their R&D and also to maintain their positions within the market amid an influx of new players. Nike is Taking on Customizers. 1-800 Contacts, Warby Parker Clash Over TMs, Website Design.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 24, 2024

Consumer Jurisdiction and Choice of Law Rules in European and Chinese Private International Law , Zhen Chen This article compares consumer jurisdiction and choice of law issues in China and the EU. What is the notion of consumer? Are farmers, package travel tourists and timeshare tourists consumers?

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Consumer interest in sustainability and broader ESG issues has pushed many brands to bolster their bottom lines by making oversized marketing efforts and/or more-ambitious-than-objective “eco-friendly” statements. Companies’ S-1 Filings Are Getting Longer, Mentions of ESG Are Increasing.

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The heavily-hyped launch caused widespread consumer backlash, including a barrage of social media commentary and calls for a boycott of Nike over the customized shoes, which caused significant damage to its brand, Nike argued. Allbirds Faces Suit Over Sustainability-Centric Advertising.

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It is worth noting here that Lululemon is claiming design patent rights, i.e., rights that protect the overall visual appearance of an article of manufacture, including the color and shape of a product or a combination thereof. Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc. , ” The case is Peloton Interactive, Inc. 1:21-cv-10071 (SDNY).

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

But since there is no point in having privacy (or data protection) rights if no redress can be found to vindicate them, it is even more important to investigate how internet users can obtain justice, if their privacy has been infringed. This raises difficult questions about how to balance the value of data with individual privacy.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Two years ago, the Uniform Law Conference of Canada (ULCC) released a revised version of the Court Jurisdiction and Proceedings Transfer Act (CJPTA), model legislation putting the taking of jurisdiction and staying of proceedings on a statutory footing. The statute is available here.

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Peloton has, of course, already pushed back against this claim in its suit (pretty convincingly, I would argue), asserting that because both companies’ well-known branding appears – in some cases, quite prominently – on their respective offerings, consumers are not likely to be confused at all. . The case is Lululemon Athletica Canada, Inc.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 28, 2021

As a distinctive Dior trademark, these five alternating horizontal stripes thus benefit from exclusive trademark protection, making it possible to identify Dior creations independently of the Christian Dior inscription,” Paris-based Dior said in a statement to WWD on Monday.

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The Fashion Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To shed light on digital privacy and design measures that regulators and companies can undertake to preserve consumer privacy, a team of researchers from the U.S., UK and Canada studied the interaction between three parties that are concerned with our data: us as individuals, the companies we interact with, and third parties.

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The robust re-focusing on physical retail will be spearheaded by newly-appointed Senior Vice President of Retail Kristy Maynes, who “served as the general manager of Lululemon’s first 40 stores in Canada and opened the athleisure brand’s first locations in Europe,” per Fortune.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Carmen Otero García-Castrillón, Complutense University of Madrid, has kindly provided us with her thoughts on personal data protection and international trade regulation. In digital commerce times, it seems self-evident that personal data protection and international trade in goods and services are intrinsically connected.

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The Process Street

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Cyberstalking” acquaintances, colleagues, and future partners is considered the norm, as a consumer, it’s fantastic. Prior to that, he worked for Monster, and Concordia University (Canada). While the EU has forged the way by implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , it was only the beginning. Harriott, Ph.D.

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The Process Street

AUGUST 30, 2021

2021 was also the year it rained on a Greenland ice cap for the first time and Canada’s last arctic shelf collapsed. Meanwhile, July 29, 2021 was declared Earth Overshoot Day , meaning the world’s population had already consumed more that year than the planet could regenerate. Pat yourselves on the back, folks.).

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JURIST

OCTOBER 18, 2024

billion to settle legal claims in Canada, stemming from decades of disputes. The lawsuits arose from claims that the tobacco companies failed to warn consumers about the dangers of their products. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of premature death in Canada. Three tobacco companies proposed on Thursday to pay $32.5

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The Fashion Law

MAY 25, 2021

billion in November 2020), and all the while, sales are projected to continue to grow, as consumers shell out for what The Cut called “a kind of lowbrow luxury that, clearly, people want today.” (Or billion – or nearly 15 times the company’s earnings (a similar multiple as VF Corp. paid when it acquired streetwear “it” brand Supreme for $2.1

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Customs & International Trade Law

JUNE 14, 2022

Customs and Border Protection have a process for enforcement concerning forced labor. Some products do not need a declaration, such as aircraft and aircraft parts and equipment along with non-consumable vessel stores. Mexico, and Canada as the presence criteria A-D are identical from NAFTA. Under the 19 CFR 10.1, 19 CFR 10.1 (d)

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Customs & International Trade Law

JULY 28, 2023

CBP cautions consumers , merchants about unsafe school supplies after a seizure of school supplies in San Juan, P.R., The hours at the Maida, Northgate and Laurier ports of entry will return to the hours in use before the temporary expansion.

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Customs & International Trade Law

JANUARY 15, 2024

The agency found that findings that imports of tin mill products from Canada, China, Germany, and the Republic of Korea are being dumped into the U.S. market, and imports of tin mill products from China are also being subsidized.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

China was third with over 430 sites, and after that, several countries in Europe and in Asia each had over a hundred catalog sites, including Germany, Canada, Italy, France, Japan, the U.K., After the U.S., the most prominent site for facilities was India, with over 600 sites. and South Korea.

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LexForti

MAY 7, 2024

can seek protection u/s 28 of the TM Act, but cannot have right on surnames/generic words like Packers or Movers individually. Google also sought ‘safe harbour’ protection under Section 79 of IT Act. In India, test of confusion is based on perceptibility of mark by consumer in terms of visual, phonetic and structural similarity.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Demo video: [link] Founded: 10/28/2020, Vancouver, BC, Canada Target customer: Solos, small and medium size firms. and Canada, but we also have customers in Australia and Mexico. Succession and protection planning for digital assets. Founded: 7/27/2023, Vancouver, Canada. What problem do you solve? Anything else?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

But renewable generation is not sufficient to decarbonize the electric sector; infrastructure that delivers clean electricity to consumers is also critical. However, both natural gas and oil pipelines that cross the border to Canada or Mexico require a Presidential permit.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2011

Proponents of the reallocation contend most consumers get their TV service not over the air, but from cable or satellite providers, so the need for spectrum dedicated to broadcast television is far less than it was 70 years ago when the television service was first popularized. How will the repacking work?

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