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Category: IP Practice and Law

Lawrence Chan at 2018 AIPLA Annual Meeting

Lawrence Chan will be attending the 2018 Annual Meeting for the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) being held from October 25 to 27 in Washington, DC. Information about the conference can be found here.

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Dana Turner-Ryan at 2018 AIPF Annual Meeting

Dana Turner-Ryan will be attending the 2018 Association of Intellectual Property Firms (AIPF) Annual Meeting from September 26 - 28, 2018 in Chicago, IL.  The theme of the meeting is “EVERYTHING FEELS DIFFERENT: HOW SHOULD BOUTIQUE IP FIRMS RESPOND TO DISRUPTION”. 

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Andy Chow at 2018 AIPPI World Congress

Andy Chow will be attending this year's AIPPI  Congress (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle / International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property). The Congress will be held Sept 23 - 26, 2018 in Cancun, Mexico. Information about the conference can be seen here.

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Google Forced to Assist in Anti-piracy Effort

Google has lost another round in its fight to avoid a Canadian injunction requiring it to block an alleged trade secret pirate from its worldwide search results.   Injunctive relief targeting online actors such as search engines may now be available to help interdict infringement. 

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Hockey Emotions Boil Over

The annual French Moot Court put on by the Association des Juristes Francophone de la Colombie-Britannique will be held on March 10 at the Vancouver Law Courts to showcase the involvement of francophones in the BC legal system. This year's scenario regarding hockey will be tried, entirely in French, by French-speaking lawyers before a French-speaking judge and a French-speaking jury. As an avid hockey player, Paul Smith will be participating as counsel.

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