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		<title>Practical business law for start-up entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.ca/practical-business-law-for-start-up-entrepreneurs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2013 20:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a flourishing small business sector, especially in information-based businesses, knowledge of certain business law concepts will help you use your lawyer as a valuable adviser rather than a necessary expense:  Business structures (proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations), Information law and rights (copyright, privacy, and more), and Agreements (licences and other contracts).]]></description>
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		<title>Replacing Fixation:  How the information age is forcing us to fix what has always been wrong with copyright</title>
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		<comments>http://weblawg.ca/replacing-fixation-how-the-information-age-is-forcing-us-to-fix-what-has-always-been-wrong-with-copyright/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 23:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[copyleft]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[copyright reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idea expression dichotomy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright protection is attracted by the fixation of expression, and not by the notional birth of idea.  Fixation, in the sense of it being the endpoint of the creative process, is an obsolete concept.  The creative cycle is idea -> expression -> [possible] fixation -> impression -> idea.  As technology changes the nature of creative works to make fixation elusive if not extinct, it also enables fixation's more legally honest replacement.  Whatever replaces fixation as the moment that attracts protection will not be tied to uniform of permanent presentation of a work, and will come from within the work.]]></description>
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		<title>Making your Will Clear and Certain</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.ca/making-your-will-clear-and-certain/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.ca/making-your-will-clear-and-certain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wills, Estates, and Incapacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drafting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[estate planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Last Will and Testament]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Judges often talk about “certainty” in legal documents.  Certainty is the product of clear language and well-planned logic.  Nowhere is certainty more important than in your Last Will and Testament.  Why? Your will has to be interpreted by your executors &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://weblawg.ca/making-your-will-clear-and-certain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IP Law Firm uses case summary to toot its own horn</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.ca/ip-law-firm-uses-case-summary-to-toot-its-own-horn/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.ca/ip-law-firm-uses-case-summary-to-toot-its-own-horn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[licensing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every week, I look forward to informative and useful summaries in the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s Newsstand e-mail. Generally, a firm writes an article on an important case or development, explaining the decision and its presumed impact on practice and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://weblawg.ca/ip-law-firm-uses-case-summary-to-toot-its-own-horn/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Apple v. Samsung and Google, or the Silo and the Bazaar</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.ca/apple-v-samsung-and-google-or-the-silo-and-the-bazaar-2/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.ca/apple-v-samsung-and-google-or-the-silo-and-the-bazaar-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Samsung]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those who’ve managed to go off the grid for the end of the summer, Apple sued Samsung in a loosely-veiled attempt to throw a few punches at Google, and Apple won.  There are several ways of looking at this &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://weblawg.ca/apple-v-samsung-and-google-or-the-silo-and-the-bazaar-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Contracts &#8211; Making Them Work</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.ca/contracts-making-them-work/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.ca/contracts-making-them-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every contract should pass a test of the following five criteria of a good contract: 

Clarity, Accuracy, Responsibility, Contingency, and Enforceability.]]></description>
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		<title>September Changes to Estates Practice: Enduring Powers of Attorney and Representation Agreements</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.ca/september-changes-to-estates-practice-enduring-powers-of-attorney-and-representation-agreements/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.ca/september-changes-to-estates-practice-enduring-powers-of-attorney-and-representation-agreements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wills, Estates, and Incapacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adult guardianship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enduring power of attorney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[estate planning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[power of attorney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The revised structure of the law is this:

To grant full health care authority, but only health care authority, a s.9 representation agreement will be the appropriate document, and it will be much simpler than the previous version. 

To grant full financial affairs authority that will continue notwithstanding a loss of capacity by the donor, a new enduring power of attorney, complete with the new protections and responsibilities, will be the appropriate document. 

These two documents separate health care and financial matters in a manner that makes practical sense:  the s.9 representation agreement will be read by a health care practitioner; the enduring power of attorney will be read by a financial worker.]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Assignment: Distinguishing Trolls from Legitimate Assignees, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.ca/patent-assignment-distinguishing-trolls-from-legitimate-assignees-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.ca/patent-assignment-distinguishing-trolls-from-legitimate-assignees-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Gornall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Property]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague, Ben Gornall, Patent and Trademark Consultant, has continued our earlier discussion.  My initial post was &#8220;IP Litigation as a(n Illegal) Business Model&#8220;, to which Ben commented here.  I replied with &#8220;Patent Assignment: Trolling the Gap between Potential and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://weblawg.ca/patent-assignment-distinguishing-trolls-from-legitimate-assignees-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Assignment: Distinguishing Trolls from Legitimate Assignees, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.ca/patent-assignment-distinguishing-trolls-from-legitimate-assignees-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.ca/patent-assignment-distinguishing-trolls-from-legitimate-assignees-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Gornall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague, Ben Gornall, Patent and Trademark Consultant, has continued our earlier discussion.  My initial post was &#8220;IP Litigation as a(n Illegal) Business Model&#8220;, to which Ben commented here.  I replied with &#8220;Patent Assignment: Trolling the Gap between Potential and &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://weblawg.ca/patent-assignment-distinguishing-trolls-from-legitimate-assignees-part-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Assignment:  Trolling the Gap between Potential and Actual Usefulness</title>
		<link>http://weblawg.ca/patent-assignment-trolling-the-gap-between-potential-and-actual-usefulness/</link>
		<comments>http://weblawg.ca/patent-assignment-trolling-the-gap-between-potential-and-actual-usefulness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 23:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Costin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[licensing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patent troll]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How many of the would-be defendants simply negotiate the licence - not a one-time settlement but an ongoing licence (perhaps under duress?) - to avoid the more costly lawsuit, even though they have no intention of using the patented matter any further?
Here we come to the difference between potential usefulness, which speculation underlies the granting of the patent, and actual usefulness, evidence of which underlies the infringement lawsuit.]]></description>
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