2024 was an active year in Canadian patent law, with the Federal Court issuing several decisions on the merits regarding invalidity and/or infringement. The courts also considered issues of the regulation of patent agents,...more
1/24/2025
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Claim Construction ,
Indefiniteness ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Term Adjustment ,
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Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents
On January 1, 2025, Canada will implement a patent term adjustment (PTA) system to account for unreasonable delays by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) in issuing a patent. The final regulations were published...more
12/20/2024
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Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Deferred Action ,
Fees ,
Final Rules ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent Examinations ,
Patent Term Adjustment ,
Patents ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
As explained in our previous article, Canada will soon be implementing a patent term adjustment (PTA) system to account for unreasonable delays by the Patent Office in issuing a patent. The necessary amendments to the Patent...more
Bill C-47, “An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 28, 2023,” aka “Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1” is an omnibus bill that includes proposed amendments to the Patent Act to...more
Bill C-47, entitled “An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 28, 2023,” had its first reading in the House of Commons on April 20, 2023. This omnibus bill includes proposed...more
Consider requesting examination of your Canadian patent applications now to avoid potential fees - Last summer, the Government of Canada issued draft regulations introducing claim fees and a continued examination scheme for...more
Bill C-4, entitled An Act to implement the Agreement between Canada, the United States of America and the United Mexican States (i.e. the USMCA), has received royal assent from the Governor General of Canada....more
Bill C-4, entitled An Act to implement the Agreement between Canada, the United States of America and the United Mexican States was tabled in the Parliament of Canada on January 29, 2020. The bill introduces some amendments...more
2/13/2020
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Canada ,
Copyright Terms ,
Counterfeit Goods Regulation ,
Criminal Code ,
Customs ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
NAFTA ,
Patent Term Adjustment ,
Proposed Amendments ,
The Copyright Act ,
Trademarks Act ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
On December 10, 2019, Canada, the United States and Mexico signed the Protocol of Amendment to the Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States and Canada (commonly referred to as the USMCA). The...more
1/3/2020
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Biologics ,
Canada ,
Certification Marks ,
CETA ,
Collective Marks ,
Copyright ,
CPTPP ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Domain Names ,
Industrial Design ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
NAFTA ,
Patent Law Treaty ,
Patent Term Adjustment ,
Safe Harbors ,
Trademarks ,
Trademarks Act ,
Trump Administration ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
In a step towards ratifying the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), the Canadian government introduced Bill C-100, entitled “An Act to implement the Agreement between Canada, the United States of America and the...more
5/30/2019
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Biologics ,
Canada ,
Copyright Terms ,
Counterfeiting ,
CUSMA ,
Damages ,
Data Protection ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
NAFTA ,
New Legislation ,
Patent Term Adjustment ,
Trademarks ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
After more than a year of negotiations, Canada reached a new free-trade agreement with Mexico and the United States minutes before the midnight deadline on September 30, 2018....more
10/5/2018
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Canada ,
Collective Marks ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Terms ,
Counterfeiting ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Damages ,
Data Protection ,
Domain Names ,
Industrial Design ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
NAFTA ,
Patent Law Treaty ,
Patent Term Adjustment ,
Patents ,
The Copyright Act ,
Trademark Infringement ,
Trademarks ,
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ,
US Trade Policies