IP News

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (the “CIPO”) is updating the certificates it issues when IP rights are granted. As of September 1, 2020 the...
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A film depicting a fictionalized version of the story behind one of Canada’s leading patent law cases, Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, 2004 SCC...
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HTC Corporation filed a U.S. patent application, recently published as publication no. US 2020/0267245 for a foldable smartphone. The publication shows a mobile device...
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) recently announced the 2020 Patents for Humanity winners. The Patents for Humanity program aims to help...
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A welcoming decision for hotel trademark owners: “hotel services” and “motel services” can potentially be performed in Canada in the absence of physical hotel...
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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recently released its 2020 Global Innovation Index (GII) jointly with Cornell University, INSEAD and the 2020 GII Knowledge...
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The Federal Court of Canada recently ruled in Choueifaty v. Canada (Attorney General) that the Canadian Intellectual Property Office’s (CIPO’s) practice of using a...
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The World Intellectual Property Office (the “WIPO”) has now launched its Madrid Application Assistant to assist users with filing Madrid applications (i.e. international trademark...
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DABUS, i.e. the Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience, is an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system that has the ability to generate inventions....
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Typically, registration of copyright in the United States requires a single application (and application fee) for each work in which copyright registration is applied...
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