2022 QCCQ 6675: Operating as "Fédération des Inventors du Québec", Varin offered to protect inventions but never filed a single patent application at CIPO.
Today, there is much talk about how artificial intelligence plays a significant role in patent drafting and could replace the patent attorney altogether.
Patent drafters should take the time to consider the “why” behind drafting choices. There is no “right” or “wrong” way here, only the need to be mindful.
This paper uses publicly available filing statistics and a professional survey in an attempt to gather empirical data on the work done by Canadian Patent Agents in the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) versus the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”).
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.
There are a lot of IP service providers out there. In this post I attempt to provide some guidelines for helping companies to assess IP counsel and choose the right one.
USPTO Office of Enrollment and Discipline: Tracy W. Druce, D2014-13 - Tracy W. Druce, an executive partner at the American IP firm Novak Druce Connolly Bove & Quigg LLP was disciplined for not adequately supervising a non-lawyer assistant
SNF Inc v CIBA Speciality Chemicals Water Treatments Limited, 2014 FC 616 - the Court confirmed that “the privilege accorded elsewhere to European patent attorneys does not extend to Canadian litigation.”
Kirouac-Couture c ERL Étude et Recherche Inc, 2014 QCCQ 1405 - The Court held that ERL’s failure to provide the relevant disclosure vitiates Couture’s consent to enter the contract for preparation of the patent application.