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Kate Findlay
representing both domestic and multinational clients. Kate’s product liability practice includes the defence, , competition, banking, insurance defence, telecommunications, professional liability and privacy, of regulatory compliance, product claims, labelling, ESG risk and best practices, product recalls and risk, and arbitration experience representing both domestic and multinational clients. Kate’s product liability practice, in a summary judgment motion and before the Ontario Court of Appeal in defence of product liability, Insurance Defence Professional Liability Privacy & Data Security Financial Services Banking & Finance, & Securities Litigation Insurance Defence Professional Liability Privacy & Data Security Financial, liability and privacy disputes. Kate has acted as lead counsel before all levels of court in Ontario
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Timothy M. Lowman
and omissions, trade secrets, invention ownership, product liability and employment law claims, , professional errors and omissions, trade secrets, invention ownership, product liability and employment law, in civil litigation, professional errors and omissions, product liability, technology licensing, insurance, litigation, professional errors and omissions, product liability, technology licensing and intellectual, Technology Professional Liability Patents & Industrial Designs Mediation/Arbitration Services, Trademarks & Branding Technology Professional Liability Patents & Industrial Designs Mediation
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Barbra H. Miller
and surety claims, employer/employee relations, product liability claims, commercial lease enforcement, , partnership disputes, construction lien and surety claims, employer/employee relations, product liability, with their acquisition of the CommerceServer.net business, a former Microsoft product line, from SMITH. Acted, , 2020. “Letting the Smoke Clear on Recreational Marijuana: Where Liability Has Landed for Municipalities Post Legalization,” 26th Annual Conference on Provincial/Municipal Government Liability, June
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Aird & Berlis Partners Recognized as 2024 IP STARS
, invention ownership, product liability and employment law claims. Ken Clark is a Certified Specialist, , professional errors and omissions, trade secrets, invention ownership, product liability and employment
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Max Muñoz
Max is a member of the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. He is a fierce advocate, whose practice covers a range of litigation matters, including securities, construction and product liability. Max has particular experience in civil and regulatory proceedings against directors and officers, broker/dealer disputes, and class actions. Max has acted as lead counsel before all levels of court in Ontario and has represented clients before courts in Alberta, British Columbia, covers a range of litigation matters, including securities, construction and product liability. Max has
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Chris J. Matthews
of disputes, including securities, product liability, forestry regulation, auditing and accounting, , product liability, forestry regulation, auditing and accounting, information technology, and matters, Estate & Commercial Leasing Litigation Professional Liability Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Liability Litigation & Dispute Resolution Commercial, Corporate & Securities Litigation Toronto Partner
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Class Actions
Pharmaceuticals Copyright Privacy Financial Services Product Liability Insurance Defence, . Defending a gas utility in a product liability class action concerning furnaces, boilers and hot, Pharmaceuticals Copyright Privacy Financial Services Product Liability Insurance, and available defenses. Defending a gas utility in a product liability class action concerning furnaces, boilers, Privacy Financial Services Product Liability Insurance Defence Securities Law Mining, utility in a product liability class action concerning furnaces, boilers and hot water heaters
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Holly V.A. Cunliffe
fraud, asset and debt recovery, civil enforcement, employment disputes, product liability, judicial, , asset and debt recovery, civil enforcement, employment disputes, product liability, judicial reviews
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Six Class Action Rulings That Shaped Q2 2024
, oil and gas, consumer products, product liability, pharmaceutical, natural health products, related to liability for the pleaded causes of action, and four related to remedies. In assessing the liability issues, the ONSC found there was little doubt that they were common to the class, of establishing some basis in fact that the liability issues were common across the class and certified, a claim for negligence. Key Takeaways There is no liability for negligence without actual damage, and gas, consumer products, product liability, pharmaceutical, natural health products, to liability for the pleaded causes of action, and four related to remedies. In assessing the liability, basis in fact that the liability issues were common across the class and certified the issues, for negligence. Key Takeaways There is no liability for negligence without actual damage. Recovery for pure economic loss is only available in certain narrow circumstances (e.g., where a product
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Insurance Defence
, multi-party litigation Fidelity insurance claims Property and casualty disputes Occupiers’ liability Institutional liability Municipal liability Accident and disability claims Life insurance claims Product liability Coverage analysis Risk management and risk analysis Our experienced lawyers
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How to ‘B’ a Socially and Environmentally Conscious Business: B Corp Certification for Canadian Corporations
and record its universal waste production? Customers: How do you verify that your product improves, Certification and should be avoided, as it may place directors and officers at increased risk of liability, that your product improves the impact of your client organizations? Corporations must obtain a score, at increased risk of liability. Corporations have one year from the time of certification to amend
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Bernie McGarva
Bernie is an experienced litigator, mediator and arbitrator with an excellent track record of resolution. For more than 35 years in practice, Bernie has appeared before numerous professional tribunals and all levels of the court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. His specialized expertise in professional liability and construction law has earned him recognition as a leading lawyer, with federal and provincial taxing authorities. His professional liability practice includes advising, of Architects, 1998. Lecturer, "The Role of the Professional in Product Liability Cases," Insight Conference, 1996. Chair, Canadian Institute's Product Liability Conference, 1996. "BCE Decided, Consultants," Construction SuperConference, 1999. "The Role of the Professional in Product Liability Cases, & Commercial Leasing Litigation Professional Liability Commercial, Corporate & Securities, /Arbitration Services Real Estate & Commercial Leasing Litigation Professional Liability Commercial
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Rethinking Liability Regimes for AI-Related Claims – Should Canada Follow Europe?
Rethinking Liability Regimes for AI-Related Claims – Should Canada Follow Europe?, fault. European Union’s Directives on AI Systems and Product Liability The most recent initiatives, for damage caused by AI systems (“AI Directive”); and (ii) liability for defective products (“Product, to harmonize other elements of compensation claims, such as strict liability. Product Liability Directive: The Product Liability Directive expressly confirms that AI systems and AI-enabled goods, and software upgrades or updates. The Product Liability Directive also addresses liability of economic
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Tim Lowman Elected Secretary of IPIC Board of Directors
, copyright, professional errors and omissions, trade secrets, invention ownership, product liability
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Aird & Berlis Welcomes Partner Max Muñoz
We are pleased to announce that Max Muñoz has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. Max has experience in civil and regulatory proceedings against directors and officers, class actions and broker/dealer disputes. He is a fierce advocate for a wide range of clients, advising them with respect to complex litigation in areas such as securities, construction and product liability. Max has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario, as well as many
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Intellectual Property Litigation
Our clients trust us to protect their IP rights against infringers, counterfeiters and cybersquatters and to defend them against invalid claims made by others. We represent our clients in all types of IP litigation involving patent, trademark, copyright, industrial design, confidential information/trade secret rights, domain name and UDRPs, and the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, as well as invention ownership, competition law, false advertising, product liability
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Top Class Action Decisions of Q3 2024
, consumer products, product liability, pharmaceutical, natural health products, telecommunications, ) and the defendant bank’s liability payment was undiluted by legal fees and disbursements, and taxes, products, product liability, pharmaceutical, natural health products, telecommunications, condominiums, ) and the defendant bank’s liability payment was undiluted by legal fees and disbursements, and taxes on those
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Aird & Berlis Recognized in Managing Intellectual Property IP STARS
secrets, invention ownership and product liability. Trent Horne, a partner and member of the firm's
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Tim Lowman and Ken Clark Recognized as 2022 IP STARS
, trade secrets, invention ownership, product liability and employment law claims. Ken Clark
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Litigation & Dispute Resolution
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65 Aird & Berlis Lawyers Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2021
Paige Backman Donald Johnston Product Liability Law Cynthia Sefton Public Procurement Law, Liability Practice Steve Tenai Energy Law Ron Clark Energy Regulatory Law Fred Cass Dennis O’Leary
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B.C. Cost Recovery Legislation Has Significant Implications for Product and Service Providers
B.C. Cost Recovery Legislation Has Significant Implications for Product and Service Providers, Columbia: “Product” is defined broadly in the proposed legislation to include “goods, a service and a by-product,” which will allow the government to commence an action against nearly any company, -litigated. Joint and Several Director and Officer Liability: A director or officer of a corporation, liability be found. Immunity for Whistleblowers: The proposed legislation provides immunity, for the purposes of establishing causation, liability and quantifying damages or the cost of health-care
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Aird & Berlis Partners Recognized as 2021 IP STARS
, invention ownership and product liability. Fellow partner Ken Clark is also recognized as a Trademark
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Aird & Berlis Partners Recognized as IP STARS by Managing Intellectual Property
, invention ownership and product liability. Fellow partner Ken Clark is also recognized as a Trademark
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Aird & Berlis Partners Recognized as IP STARS by Managing Intellectual Property
, invention ownership and product liability. Fellow partner Ken Clark is also recognized as a Trademark
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Aird & Berlis Partners Recognized as 2021 IP STARS
, invention ownership and product liability. Fellow partner Ken Clark is also recognized as a Trademark star
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Aird & Berlis Partners Recognized as 2023 IP STARS
errors and omissions, trade secrets, invention ownership, product liability and employment law claims
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The Ideal Cease and Desist Letter - Informative and Only Covertly Threatening?
the attached SOC and assess their own liability in this infringement of API's exclusive rights, witnesses indicated these letters resulted in them no longer purchasing the impeacher CTA's product, to stop purchasing the impeacher's product. Calculation of the actual damages resulting from, relations, knowingly making false or misleading representations in promoting one's product (per s. 52, the infringer's product in any event), this may damage one's section 7(a) case. Such circumstances
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Five Key 2020 Decisions for Businesses
or conduct. Limiting Manufacturers’ Liability for Pure Economic Loss 1688782 Ontario Inc. v. Maple Leaf, merely by supplying shoddy goods. Rather, the defective product must pose an imminent, real and substantial danger and that danger cannot be averted by simply discarding the product. Even where
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84 Aird & Berlis Lawyers Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2022
Donald B. Johnston Product Liability Law Cynthia R. C. Sefton Public Procurement Law Donald B, Defamation and Media Law Stephen Zolf Director and Officer Liability Practice Steve J. Tenai
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Getting Fit… Legally – How to Manage Your Legal Risk as a Fitness Business Owner
they can take to protect their business from exposure to liability. Below are some of the key legal points, because of the doctrine of employer “vicarious liability.” In certain circumstances, vicarious liability can apply so as to hold an employer liable for the tortious actions of their employees, which, of vicarious liability might be applied to hold a fitness business liable for the actions of one, that … offers to purchase, sell, barter or lease a product, good or service….” The very broad definition
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Patent Law and Space-Bound Inventions: The Conundrum, and Strategies for Combating It
Space Treaty,[3] the Rescue Agreement,[4] the Liability Convention,[5] the Registration Convention [6, itself (i.e., the product per se), or even a method of manufacturing the space object, would capture infringing activity here on Earth, when the product is made, used or sold, even if later used, UNTS 119. [5] Liability Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects, 29
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Miranda Spence
protection, cybersecurity, defamation and intermediary liability. The team also advises technology, protection, cybersecurity, defamation and intermediary liability. The team also advises technology, commercial litigation matters involving defamation, internet intermediary liability, intellectual, of patent rights to a widely-used household product. Counsel to the vendor take-back mortgagee
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Ken Clark
Liability and Facilitation," The Centennial Symposium, September 19, 2024. "Copyright Litigation, 21, 2011. "The Canadian Telecom Saga," co-Author, A&B Blawg Briefs, March 16, 2011. "Product
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Top Class Action Decisions of Q1 2024
, mining, oil and gas, consumer products, product liability, pharmaceutical, natural health, liability”; Guiding evidentiary principles ensure the leave test serves an important gatekeeping role in statutory secondary market liability claims; Fairness principles prelude a plaintiff from, court to deal with the remaining criteria for certification.[17] Enterprise Liability Modifies, included negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, breach of the Occupiers Liability
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Tech Lending: What Are IP Assets?
trademark could result in confused customers and legal liability. Copyright Copyright naturally arises, a product’s marketability. Patents A patent is a time-limited monopoly granted by the government
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Addressing Risk Allocation in M&A Transactions Through the Use of Transactional Insurance: A Primer on Representation and Warranty Insurance in the Canadian M&A Market
Insurance product available in Canada for M&A transactions (referred to as transaction liability
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Federal Court Denies Equitable Relief for Failure to Diligently Prosecute a Patent
to equitable relief. Licences and settlements are usually without admission of liability, launched a product and opportunistically tries to extract a larger unreasonable licensing fee, especially
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A Closer Look at OSFI Guideline B-15: Climate Risk Management
which OSFI received more than 4,300 responses. The final product is a guideline that aligns, acknowledges the existence of an indirect climate risk, referred to as a liability risk (i.e., the risk of climate-related claims under liability policies, litigation and direct actions against Institutions, risk, liability risk, etc.) that may arise from the associated physical or transition risk
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Highlights of the 2018 Federal Budget
liability for trusts and its beneficiaries. The new reporting requirements will apply to express, licensees”) at the higher of a flat rate applied on the quantity of cannabis contained in a final product and a percentage of the dutiable amount of the product as sold by the producer. The dutiable amount, of delivery of a cannabis product by the cannabis licensee that packaged it to a purchaser (e.g., at the higher of the flat rate or the ad valorem rate on the product. The applicable duty will only
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Ron W. Clark
liability, jurisdiction and continuous disclosure matters. GOVERNANCE, LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY MATTERS, Product Demand" – February 13, 2007. Speaker, 18th Annual Canadian Power Conference and Trade Show
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Highlights of the 2019 Federal Budget
, and extending liability to a holder of a TFSA that carries on business. Budget 2019 re-affirms, - Budget 2019 proposes to extend the liability for income tax on business income earned through a TFSA to the holder of the TFSA and to limit the liability of a trustee of the TFSA for such tax to the amount, at a flat rate applied to the total THC content in each product (measured in milligrams). The current
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Proposed Climate-Related and ESG Disclosure Requirements: Insights and Guidance for Junior Mining Issuers
operations or the sustainability of a product or service being offered,” through a practice known, liability and encourage climate-related disclosure. One commentator proposed that such a “safe
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Budget 2024: Capital Gains Inclusion Rate to Increase
of avoiding joint and several, or solidary, liability for the tax debtor’s tax liability, governments may elect which FACT product to tax, under a separate FACT sales tax. Products subject
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Highlights of the 2022 Federal Budget
and are consequentially assessed a Part IV tax liability. It should be noted that Finance’s proposals, liability for refundable tax and the calculation of its “low rate income pool.” The “substantive CCPC, the information of those persons offering a service or selling a product through the platform to only