[1] Industrial Design Act, RSC, 1985, c I-9.

[2] Industrial Design Regulations, SOR/18-120.

[3] In this Manual, the Hague Agreement means the Geneva (1999) Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, adopted in Geneva on July 2, 1999.

[4] Gramophone Co v Magazine Holder Co (1910), 27 RPC 152, (1911) RPC 221 (UK CA).

[5] Schmittzehe v Roberts [1959] RPC 347 (UK HCJCD).

[6] Ibid, See also Cow (PB) & Co Ltd v Cannon Rubber Manufacturers Ltd [1959] RPC 347.

[7] Milliken & Co v Interface Flooring Systems (Canada) Inc (1998), 3 FCR 103, 83 CPR (3d) 470 (FCTD), Milliken & Co v Interface Flooring Systems (Canada) Inc (2000), 5 CPR (4th) 209 at para. 18 (FCA).

[8] Rothbury International Inc v Canada (Minister of Industry), [2005] 1 FCR 130 at para 31, 2004 FC 578 (FC) [Rothbury].

[9] Amp Incorporated v Utilux Proprietary Ltd [1972] RPC 103 at 108 (HL)[Amp Incorporated].

[10] Ibid at p. 112.

[11] Industrial Design Application 1998-2446, Re (2003), 25 CPR (4th) 256 (Can Pat App Bd & Pat Commr); Justice Stratas in Zero Spill Systems (Int’l) Inc v Heide, 2015 FCA 115 at paras 24-27.

[12] Dover, Ltd v Nurnberger Celluloidwaren Fabrik Gebruder Wolff (1910), 27 RPC 175 at 179 (ChD).

[13] Bata Industries Ltd v Warrington Inc (1985), 5 CPR (3d) 339, 55 NR 291 (FC) [Bata] citing Lewis Falk Ltd v Jacobwitz (1944), 61 RPC 116 at 124 [Lewis]; Rollason's Design (1898), 15 RPC 447.

[14] Bodum USA, Inc v Trudeau Corporation (1889) Inc, 2012 FC 1128 at para 96, 105 CPR (4th) 88 [Bodum].

[15] Clatworthy & Son Ltd v Dale Display Fixtures Ltd, [1929] SCR 429 at 431, [1929] 3 DLR 11 (SCC) [Clatworthy].

[16] Hugh Laddie, Peter Prescott & Mary Vitoria, The Modern Law of Copyright and Designs, 2nd ed (London, Dublin, Edinburgh: Butterworths, 1995) at p 1129.

[17] Bata, supra note 15 at para 23.

[18] Rothbury, supra note 10 at paras 30-31.

[19] Jones v Teichman, [1930] Ex CR 103 at 105, [1930] 3 DLR 437.

[20] Dunlop Rubber Co v Golf Ball Developments Ltd (1931), 48 RPC 268 at 281(ChD); Re: Paramount Pictures Corporation Industrial Design Application (1981), 73 CPR (2d) 273 (Can Pat App Bd & Pat Commr).

[21] Lewis, supra note 15.

[22] Bodum, supra note 16 at para 98, citing Le May v Welch (1884) 28 Ch D 24 at 34-35, 33 WR 33 (CA).

[23] Rothbury, supra note 10 at para 38.

[24] Amp Incorporated, supra note 11.

[25] Clatworthy, supra note 17 at 433-434.

[26] AFX Licensing Corporation v HJC America, Inc, 2016 FC 435 at paras 107-111.