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Alberta Court of Appeal Declines to Find Manitok is Distinguishable from Redwater

The Alberta Court of Appeal (the “ABCA”)’s anticipated decision in Manitok Energy Inc (Re), 2022 ABCA 117 (“Manitok”) confirmed that the sales proceeds of a debtor estate’s valuable petroleum and natural gas assets that are subject environmental claims including, notably, abandonment and reclamation obligations, must first be applied to abandonment and reclamation obligations, even where such assets are “unrelated” to the abandonment and reclamation obligations.

Canada, Alberta, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Supreme Court of Canada, Court of Appeal of Alberta
Implementation of the Federal Government’s Intellectual Property Strategy - Effects of Bankruptcy and Insolvency on IP Licenses

The federal government’s budget implementation bill, Bill C-86[1], received Royal Assent on December 14, 2018. An aspect of the budget implementation bill is the amendment of various legislation, including the Patent Act, the Trademarks Act, as part of the government’s implementation of its intellectual property (“IP”) strategy.

Canada, Copyrights, Designs and trade secrets, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Patents, Trademarks, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Royal Bank of Canada