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July 3, 2013
July 3, 2013
Zero Spill Systems (Int’l) Inc. v. 614248 Alberta Ltd. – 2013 FC 616 This action concerns allegations of infringement of two Canadian Patents No. 2,258,064 (064 […]
July 3, 2013
July 3, 2013
Karolinska Institutet Innovations AB v. Attorney General of Canada, 2013 FC 715 The Applicant attempted to file a patent application with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office […]
July 3, 2013
July 3, 2013
Wyeth v. Abbot Labs (Fed. Cir. 2013) Wyeth appealed from the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey’s grant of summary judgment that claims […]
July 3, 2013
July 3, 2013
PreMD Inc. v. Ogilvy Renault LLP, 2013 ONCA 412 This appeal and cross-appeal concerned the measure of damages for Ogilvy’s negligence and breach of contract in […]
June 20, 2013
June 20, 2013
Safe Gaming Systems Inc. v. Atlantic Lottery Corporation, 2013 FC 217 Before filing their defences to this patent infringement action, the Defendants moved to strike […]
June 17, 2013
June 17, 2013
Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics Inc, US SC No 12–398 (2013) - The US Supreme Court must determined that a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but cDNA is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring.
June 13, 2013
June 13, 2013
Effective June 10, 2013 PN2013-04 This Practice Notice builds upon the guidance in section 17.02.03 (Medical and surgical methods) of MOPOP and in PN 2013-02 (Examination […]
June 13, 2013
June 13, 2013
Teva Canada Limited v. Pfizer Canada Inc. (33951) The Supreme Court has revised its Sildenafil (Viagra) decision (2012 SC 60). The Court granted, in part, Pfizer’s […]
June 7, 2013
June 7, 2013
Apotex Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories, 2013 ONSC 2958 Apotex sought equitable disgorgement of profits of Abbott and Takeda, on the ground of unjust enrichment. Specifically, Apotex […]
June 7, 2013
June 7, 2013
Bayer Inc. v. Cobalt Pharmaceuticals, 2013 FC 573 Bayer sought an order prohibiting the Minister of Health from issuing a Notice of Compliance (NOC) to Cobalt, […]
May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013
Apotex Inc. v Pfizer Canada Inc. – 2013 FC 493 Apotex claimed damages under s. 8 of the PM(NOC) Regulations on grounds that it incurred a […]
May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013
Link to the proposed amendments to the Patents Bill. Rather than excluding a computer program from being a patentable invention, the amendments clarify that a computer program […]
May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013
Link to full text of the proposed Act. The Patent Quality Improvement Act amends the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to remove the eight-year sunset provision with respect […]
May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013
HTC v. Apple, [2013] EWCA Civ 451 (Court of Appeals of England and Wales) Per Kitchin L.J. (Richards L.J. concurring): This appeal was concerned with […]
May 3, 2013
May 3, 2013
Teva Canada Innovation v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 FC 448 Teva asked the Court to set aside a decision of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board […]
April 30, 2013
April 30, 2013
Re. Patent Application No. 592,567, CD 1303 The subject application was rejected by the Examiner under section 2 of the Patent Act for containing claims for […]
April 29, 2013
April 29, 2013
Re. Patent Application No. 2241368, CD 1333 The patentee submitted an application for reissue of Patent No. 2,241,368 pertaining to improvements in television receivers which provide […]
April 19, 2013
April 19, 2013
Parliament’s Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology has tabled a report titled “Intellectual Property Regime in Canada”. The Committee was chaired by David Sweet, M.P., […]
April 19, 2013
April 19, 2013
Examination Practice Respecting Computer-Implemented Inventions – PN 2013-03 These guidelines build upon the guidance in Chapter 16 (Computer-Implemented Inventions) of the MOPOP and in PN 2013-02 […]
April 19, 2013
April 19, 2013
Examination Practice Respecting Purposive Construction – PN2013-02 Free World Trust and Whirlpool continue to guide the courts, with the benefit of expert testimony and cross-examination, to […]