Vancouver Community College v. Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc., 2017 BCCA 41
| Jurisdiction | British Columbia |
| Judge | The Honourable Madam Justice Saunders,The Honourable Madam Justice D. Smith,The Honourable Mr. Justice Savage |
| Docket Number | CA43111 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (British Columbia) |
| Date | 26 January 2017 |
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Table of cases
...2020 BCCA 145 ............................................... 293 Vancouver Community College v Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc, 2017 BCCA 41 ......................................................................327 Vancouver Fraser Port Authority v Doe, 2021 BCSC 1109 ....................
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Injunctions to Protect Property and Reputation
...Besser Consulting Inc v Core Consultants Realty Inc , 2020 FC 224; Vancouver Community College v Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc , 2017 BCCA 41; Thoi Bao Inc v 1913075 Ontario Ltd (VO Media) , 2016 FC 1339. 103 See RJR-MacDonald , above note 10, discussed in Chapter 3. 104 R v Lorime......
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Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack, 2020 BCSC 793
...and Mr. Marsh is liable as an accessory. Passing off [290] In Vancouver Community College v. Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc., 2017 BCCA 41, Saunders J.A., for the Court, observed that the common law developed the tort of passing off, which was also prohibited in s. 7 of the Trade-Ma......
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Gaukel v. Buksh,
...Ciba-Geigy Canada Ltd. v. Apotex Inc., [1992] 3 S.C.R. 120; Vancouver Community College v. Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc., 2017 BCCA 41 (“VCC”) at para. 30. Goodwill has been described as the advantage of a positive reputation associated with a business which att......
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9 cases
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Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack, 2020 BCSC 793
...and Mr. Marsh is liable as an accessory. Passing off [290] In Vancouver Community College v. Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc., 2017 BCCA 41, Saunders J.A., for the Court, observed that the common law developed the tort of passing off, which was also prohibited in s. 7 of the Trade-Ma......
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Gaukel v. Buksh,
...Ciba-Geigy Canada Ltd. v. Apotex Inc., [1992] 3 S.C.R. 120; Vancouver Community College v. Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc., 2017 BCCA 41 (“VCC”) at para. 30. Goodwill has been described as the advantage of a positive reputation associated with a business which att......
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Weldpro Limited v. Weldworld Corp., 2018 FC 312
...more, is insufficient to do so. [22] Second, the applicant relies on Vancouver Community College v Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc, 2017 BCCA 41 [Vancouver Community College] to argue that it need not advance evidence of advertising campaigns or budgets to establish goodwill. I do no......
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Dairy Queen Canada, Inc. v. M.Y. Sundae Inc.
...of passing off was recently reviewed by the Court of Appeal in Vancouver Community College v. Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc., 2017 BCCA 41. There, the Court endorsed as accurate a summary of the governing principles that is found in Greystone Capital Management Inc. v. Greystone Pr......
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15 firm's commentaries
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BC Court Of Appeal Tackles Online Trademarks In Keywords And Domain Names
...Internet keyword advertising, clarifying the law of trademarks on the Internet. In Vancouver Community College v Vancouver Career College, 2017 BCCA 41, the court confirmed that trademark confusion must be assessed when a consumer first encounters the trademark online, including in Google s......
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IP Monitor - The Key To Keyword Advertising: British Columbia Court Of Appeal Overturns Passing-Off Decision
...Internet keyword advertising, clarifying the law of trademarks on the Internet. In Vancouver Community College v Vancouver Career College, 2017 BCCA 41, the court confirmed that trademark confusion must be assessed when a consumer first encounters the trademark online, including in Google s......
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Unparticularized Allegations Made Pursuant to S. 53 Struck Without Leave to Amend (Intellectual Property Weekly Abstracts - Week of January 30, 2017)
...Passing Off and the Use of Internet Keywords is Reversed on Appeal Vancouver Community College v. Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc., 2017 BCCA 41 The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court decision that had dismissed a trademark passing off claim against the Defendant Vanco......
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The Top 10 Trademark Cases Of 2017
...in California quashed an order enforcing the injunction there in November 2017.1 Vancouver Community College v. Vancouver Career College, 2017 BCCA 41 This British Columbia Court of Appeal decision considered whether the use of keywords in online advertising constitutes passing The decision......
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3 books & journal articles
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Table of cases
...2020 BCCA 145 ............................................... 293 Vancouver Community College v Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc, 2017 BCCA 41 ......................................................................327 Vancouver Fraser Port Authority v Doe, 2021 BCSC 1109 ....................
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Injunctions to Protect Property and Reputation
...Besser Consulting Inc v Core Consultants Realty Inc , 2020 FC 224; Vancouver Community College v Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc , 2017 BCCA 41; Thoi Bao Inc v 1913075 Ontario Ltd (VO Media) , 2016 FC 1339. 103 See RJR-MacDonald , above note 10, discussed in Chapter 3. 104 R v Lorime......
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THE IDEA OF PROPERTY IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
...College v Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc, 2015 BCSC 1470; Vancouver Community College v Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc, 2017 BCCA 41. (21) See Emilie Bouchet-Le Mappian, Propriete intellectuelle et droit de propriete: droit compare anglais, allemand etfrancais (Rennes: Press......