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Intellectual Property Law, David Vaver, Concord, Ont.: Irwin Law, Essentials of Canadian Law, 1996, 345 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

Peter Bowal  and
Keith Gilchrist
Peter Bowal
Affiliation:
Management Studies, The University of Calgary
Keith Gilchrist
Affiliation:
Management Studies, The University of Calgary
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Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , Fall/automne 1999 , pp. 255 - 261
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References

1. Quoted by Dobbs, Kildare in The Living Name: A Tribute to Stefan Stykolt from Some of His Friends (1964), edited by Stankiewicz, W.J.Google Scholar.

2. Canada, Bureau of Corporate Affairs and Legislative Policy, Copyright: Questions and Answers and Patents: Questions and Answers, (Ottawa: Consumer and Corporate Affairs, 1992)Google Scholar.

3. An example of the latter approach is Brown, C., Canadian Insurance Contracts Law in a Nutshell (Scarborough, Ont.: Carswell, 1995)Google Scholar.

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6. For example: Protecting Intellectual Property: An Introduction to Japan (Ottawa: External Affairs and International Trade Canada, 1991)Google Scholar; Canada, Bureau of Corporate Affairs and Legislative Policy, Copyright: Questions and Answers (Ottawa: Consumer and Corporate Affairs, 1992)Google Scholar; Canada, Bureau of Corporate Affairs and Legislative Policy, Patents: Questions and Answers, (Ottawa: Consumer and Corporate Affairs, 1992)Google Scholar; and Industry Canada, A Guide to Copyrights (Ottawa, 1994)Google Scholar.

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8. This includes the Consolidated Intellectual Property Statutes and Regulations (Scarborough, Ont.: Carswell 1993 et seq.).

9. A short-lived specialized case reporting service was The Annotated Intellectual Property Rights Reports (Agincourt, Ont.: Carswell, 1984–1990)Google Scholar.

10. Fox, H. G., The Canadian Law and Practice Relating to Letters Patent for Inventions (4th ed., Toronto: Carswell, 1969)Google Scholar, and The Canadian Law of Trade Marks and Unfair Competition (3rd ed., Toronto: Carswell, 1972)Google Scholar; and Goldsmith, I., Patents of Invention (Carswell: Toronto, 1981)Google Scholar.

11. One international periodical edited in Canada is dedicated to the subject: Intellectual Property Journal (Scarborough, Ont.; Carswell 1984 et seq.). See also, Making Business Sense of Intellectual Property (Montreal, Faculty of Law, McGill University, 1996)Google Scholar and Hughes, R. T. (ed.) Trade Secrets (Toronto: Law Society of Upper Canada, 1990)Google Scholar, which is a series of papers presented at the Law Society of Upper Canada's Continuing Legal Education Program “Trade Secrets in Law and Practice”, held in November 1989 at Osgoode Hall, Toronto.

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15. Ramsay, J. T., Who Owns the Idea? (Calgary: Macleod Dixon, 1989)Google Scholar.

16. The digest format was followed in Kratz, M. P. J., Canada's Intellectual Property in a Nutshell (Scarborough, Ont: Carswell, 1998)Google Scholar, which is half the length of Vaver's book.

17. See, eg., a recent American decision on exclusivity to a hub and spoke organizational configuration: State Street Bank and Trust v. Signature Financial Group 47 U.S.P. U.S.P.Q., 2d 1396, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit (July 1998).

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19. See, Preface.

20. Boudreau v. Lin (1997) 150 D.L.R. (4th) 324, 75 C.P.R. (3d) 1.

21. It is not practically realistic to locate in Canada a single reference for intellectual property law and commercialization.

22. John Ramsay, Technology Transfer and Licensing, supra note 13.

23. Quoted by Gerard Bergeron in University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 27, April 1958, at 357.