IP News

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has issued a Practice Notice to allow expedited examination of certain trademark applications. To ensure Canadians have timely...
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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has released a new practice notice clarifying its practice regarding requests for extensions of time under subsection 3(1)...
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In Allergan Inc. v. Sandoz Canada Inc., 2020 FC 1189 , the Federal Court of Canada ruled that section 53.1 of the Patent Act...
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The World Intellectual Property Organization (the “WIPO”) has released its annual statistics on global IP filings for 2019. Overall, global trademark filings increased by...
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Neil Young has ended his lawsuit against the Trump Campaign for allegedly infringing copyright in two of his songs. The allegations were brought by...
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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has provided on its website a list of performance targets for its services for the year 2020-2021. These performance...
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A recent study published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) found that the number of artificial intelligence related patent applications...
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced fee adjustments in relation to trademark services to address increasing costs, effective January 2,...
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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) administered the 2020 Patent Agent Qualification Examination online last week via remote electronic delivery.  Due to the COVID-19...
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The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) has issued new Examination Guidance on the topic of Subject-Matter Eligibility. This update comes in response to the...
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