A recent U.S. appeals court decision has permitted a bow-tie wearing (and purchasing) patent attorney to take Brooks Brothers to court for selling bow ties marked with expired patent numbers.
If you're a "Facebooker" or on any other social or professional networking sites, you may want to consider your answer.
Thanks to our friends in Winnipeg, on Friday, June 2, 2010 a class action lawsuit was filed against Facebook in Manitoba's Court of Queen’s Bench. The lawsuit claimed Facebook wronged its members by contravening more than a dozen laws. Some of those laws are statutory and some, perhaps more interesting, are common law based.
With the G8/G20 meetings keeping many of us who work in the Canadian M&A services sector away from our workplaces on Bay Street, they give us time to reflect on some of the information we’ve received and the data points we’ve seen in the last couple of months.
Recent survey data, transaction information and financial flows suggest that Canadians companies have become active acquirers of business assets outside of Canada. Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, but being able to reflect upon the facts supporting it is gratifying nonetheless.
Two recent lawsuits have fired warning shots across the bow of local governments and transit authorities who are seeking to drive ahead with large infrastructure projects. The lawsuits – one successful but under appeal and the other a class action suit – have been filed by business owners who allege that they have been negatively affected by transit construction projects. If successful, these suits will markedly alter the environment in which local infrastructure projects gain approval and proceed through to completion.
7,500 people have, by contract.
GameStation, a British company, owns the souls of 7,500 customers after GameStation inserted an "immortal soul" clause in its online contract. The contract provides that customers grant the company the right to claim their souls.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, (IFPI) a recording industry association, released its Recording Industry In Numbers press release on April 28, 2010.
Although overall music sales and sales of (shall we say obsolescent?) physical media declined, sales of digital forms of music, live music sales and songwriters’ copyright revenues continued to grow.
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, and her privacy commissioner friends from France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Holland, New Zealand (where is Old Zealand, anyway?), Spain and the United Kingdom have written an open letter to Google’s Chairman and CEO, Eric Schmidt.
I’ll bet they found out who he was by Googling him.