IP News

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has released its IP Canada Report for 2019, presenting current statistics and trends on the use of intellectual...
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Mountains & Mermaids, a small Alaskan online clothing retailer is clashing with coffee giant Starbucks over the use of the term “Siren” in their...
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Amgen has announced that it has agreed to purchase worldwide rights to Otezla® (apremilast) from Celgene Corporation for US $13.4 billion. Otezla® provides an...
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The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) has recently released the world’s first mobile application for filing trademark applications. The app, IPOS Go, provides...
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Proposed legislation that would create a small claims program to quickly and economically adjudicate copyright small claims within the United States Copyright Office has...
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The Canadian Federal Government has recently announced new regulations pertaining to the evaluation of pricing for newly patented drugs. These regulations aim to protect...
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Researchers from the University of Surrey and the inventor of Dabus AI, an artificial intelligence algorithm, have stoked discussion around whether a machine can...
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On 30 July 2019, a Los Angeles jury reached the verdict that Katy Perry’s 2013 hit song “Dark Horse” copied a Christian rap song...
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This week, Canada formally ratified the Patent Law Treaty and deposited the instrument of ratification in Geneva, Switzerland. To implement the Patent Law Treaty, the...
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Last week (July 24, 2019), the World Intellectual Property Organization, Cornell University and INSEAD jointly released the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2019.  The GII...
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