Expanding Protection of IP Licensees: Changes to the BIA and CCAA via the Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2

​On November 1, 2019, amendments to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act,R.S.C. 1985, c. B-3 (BIA) and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-36 (CCAA) came into force. Among other changes described in our previous publication, these amendments expand the protection offered to intellectual property (IP) licensees in the event that the licensor enters insolvency.

Filed under:
Canada, Copyrights, Designs and trade secrets, Insolvency & Restructuring, Patents, Trademarks, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act 1933 (Canada), Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act 1985 (Canada)
Authors:
Beverley Moore , Lisa Hiebert , David Chapman
Location:
Canada
Firm:
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
IP Licence Provided Contractual Right, Not a Property Right in the Asset

Golden Opportunities Fund Inc v Phenomenome Discoveries Inc, 2016 SKQB 306

Filed under:
Canada, Insolvency & Restructuring, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Health Canada, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act 1985 (Canada)
Authors:
Adrian J. Howard , Beverley Moore
Location:
Canada
Firm:
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Proposed appeal fails to raise broader issues about the intersection of copyright and insolvency law

Nortel Networks Corporation (Re), 2016 ONCA 749

Filed under:
Canada, Ontario, Copyrights, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Copyright infringement, Court of Appeal for Ontario
Authors:
Beverley Moore , Adrian J. Howard
Location:
Canada
Firm:
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Proposed appeal fails to raise broader issues about the intersection of copyright and insolvency law

Nortel Networks Corporation (Re), 2016 ONCA 749

Filed under:
Canada, Ontario, Copyrights, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Court of Appeal for Ontario
Authors:
Beverley Moore
Location:
Canada
Firm:
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
IP Licence Provided Contractual Right, Not a Property Right in the Asset

Golden Opportunities Fund Inc v Phenomenome Discoveries Inc, 2016 SKQB 306

Filed under:
Canada, Insolvency & Restructuring, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act 1985 (Canada)
Authors:
Adrian J. Howard , Beverley Moore
Location:
Canada
Firm:
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP