Gillian Burrell
February 7, 2022
Patent applicants may wish to request examination for their Canadian patent applications soon to take advantage of the fees under the current Patent Rules.
November 3, 2021
SCC #39576: Earlier this year, Travelway filed for leave to appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada over a trademark dispute with Wenger, the makers of Swiss Gear.
October 27, 2021
Andrew was invited to speak about Corporate IP Strategy and Practical Business as part of the Zhejiang High-Level IP Training Program.
October 26, 2021
When budgeting for a patent, all tech startups face this conundrum: “I need investors to pay for a patent, but I need a patent to attract investors.”
September 21, 2021
The winner of PCK's first internship and scholarship is Rashad James, a student at Western University in Ontario, Canada.
August 30, 2021
Provisional patent applications are generally well known in the start-up community as an affordable way to protect patent rights, but it can be hard to locate practical information. Here are the questions that our clients most frequently ask us about provisional patent applications.
July 15, 2021
Proposed changes to Canada’s patent system include excess claim fees and limits on office actions which will lay the groundwork for patent term adjustments.
May 12, 2021
Co-authors Stephen Perry and Andrew Currier have drawn on years of experience in the field of IP to craft a complete resource for the patent prosecutor.
May 4, 2021
2021 ONSC 2881: In a copyright dispute over source code, an Ontario court has agreed to extend an existing injunction to cover a new software product released by LDX Inc.
April 22, 2021
No. 18-956: In ruling that Google's copying of Java code amounted to fair use, the court adapted traditional copyright laws to software, which is primarily functional in nature.
March 30, 2021
Draft regulations for the College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents pose an alarming concern for patent agents dual qualified before the USPTO and CIPO.
October 27, 2020
2020 FCA 141: Court warns judges not to be "spooked" by the enormous sums that may be calculated in an accounting of profits for patent infringement.
October 5, 2020
T-1686-18: Canada's Federal Court has clarified that it does not have jurisdiction to designate Standard-Essential Patents.
April 28, 2020
Cost management strategies that won't devalue your patent portfolio. Plus: don't miss the April 29th deadline for the Innovation Assistance Program (IAP)!
April 16, 2020
Fed. Cir. 2018-2097 — The CAFC ruled that Valeant's patent for Relistor(R) is prima facie obvious based on similar compounds with overlapping pH ranges.
April 3, 2020
In this article, we explain how the intellectual property offices in Canada and the United States are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 18, 2020
2020 FC 338 – The Court concluded that the six individuals were listed as inventors “by inadvertence in the process of the division.”
March 9, 2020
2020 FCA 30; 2020 FCA 31 – Janssen and Celltrion will return to court in June after the FCA overturned a lower court decision regarding a Remicade patent.
January 30, 2020
PCK's Stephen Perry and Andrew Currier were recently ranked among the top patent experts in Canada by Who's Who Legal (WWL).
January 23, 2020
2019 SCC 65, 2019 SCC 66 - The new standard of review will be applied to decisions by the Patent Office, Trademark Office, PAB, and TTAB.