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Sample Terms of Service

By Venable LLP

A sample terms of service agreement between an individual and a company concerning the use of the company's website. This agreement includes clauses for license grants, restrictions, user obligations, privacy, and postings.

Sample Forms, Policies, and Contracts

Website Terms of Use and Disclaimer

By Fieldfisher

These template website terms of use are intended for use on non-transactional, information-based websites. The terms of use are not intended for use on websites through which users can place orders for or buy goods, services or digital products. If the website permits User Generated Content (UGC), then additional "acceptable use" terms will be needed, for example, a user's undertaking that he/she will not post UGC that is defamatory, infringing or illegal, and details of the website operator's notice-and-take-action procedures.

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Copyright Assignment Agreement

This is a sample copyright assignment agreement, under which a marketing firm that was hired by a company to create a logo assigns the copyright to the logo to the client company. 

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Top 10 Patent and Regulatory Things You Need to Know when Bringing a Biopharma Product to Canada

By Nancy Pei, Principal, Alice Tseng, Principal, Toronto Office and Daphne Lainson, Principal, Ottawa Office, Smart & Biggar LLP

Canada is an attractive market for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Most Canadian consumers have some form of drug coverage through government programs and/or private insurance. Below are ten patent and regulatory topics that in-house counsel need to know before bringing an innovative product to Canada.

Editor's note: This article was updated to reflect recent developments; the original version of this article was published on December 16, 2020.

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Canada's New Linkage Litigation Scheme: A Comparison to Hatch-Waxman

By Nancy Pei, Partner, Smart & Biggar LLP and Brian Coggio, Fish & Richardson PC

The September 2017 amendments to the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations introduced a new scheme for pharmaceutical patent linkage litigation in Canada. That scheme is now much closer to the United States' (US) Hatch-Waxman scheme, but with remaining key differences that are explained in this chart.

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Comparing Supplementary Protection Regimes Between Canada (CSPs) and The EU (SPCs)

By Nancy P. Pei, Partner, Smart & Biggar LLP, and Daniel Wise, Carpmaels & Ransford LLP

Amendments to the Canadian Patent Act and enactment of the Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations flowing from the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement introduced a new framework in Canada for the issuance of Certificates of Supplementary Protection (CSPs).

This chart compare key aspects of the two regimes, Canada's and the EU's.

Sample Forms, Policies, and Contracts

Sample Utility Assignment Agreement

This sample form is for use in the assignment of a utility patent application and related intellectual property rights, from an inventor to a corporation.

Sample Forms, Policies, and Contracts

Sample IP Assignment Agreement

This is a sample intellectual property assignment agreement, under which a company assigns the rights, title, and interest in and to trademarks, patents, domain names and intangible assets to another company, in connection with a corporate acquisition. This sample includes a choice of New York law.

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