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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Upcoming Changes to the Patent Drug Pricing System
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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Can AI stand for Artificial Inventorship?
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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Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” copied a Christian rap song, California jury finds
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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Canada Ratified the Patent Law Treaty
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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Global Innovation Index – World’s Most Innovative Countries in 2019
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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Patent Act and Rules Amendments to Come Into Force on 30 October 2019
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) announced today that the new Patent Rules have been published in Part II of the Canada Gazette. Amendments to the Patent Act and Patent Rules will...
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Coming into Force of the Amendments to the Canadian Patent Act and Patent Rules
On June 22, 2019, the Government of Canada ratified the Patent Law Treaty. Following the ratification, on the same day, the Orders In Council...
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US-China Trade Tensions Expand to Patent Law
A US senator has filed proposed legislation to prevent Huawei Technologies from seeking patent damages in US courts. The proposed legislation would prevent companies...
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Significant Amendments to Canada’s Trademark Laws come into Force Monday (June 17th, 2019)
Significant amendments to the Trade-marks Act were passed in 2014 and will come into force on 17 June 2019. These amendments aim to modernize...
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