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Dimock Stratton would like to congratulate Geoff Mowatt on recently passing the Patent Agent exams.
The exams are held annually by CIPO in April and ...
The United States Supreme Court has issued its ruling in In Re Bilski on the patentability of business method patents. The Court affirmed the lower c...
Both the Canadian and U.S. patent offices have recently announced plans to provide select applicants with the opportunity to expedite examination of t...
USPTO issues re-examination certificate to Amazon.com
After four years of re-examination, the USPTO recently confirmed, albeit after certain amendmen...
In the public reasons released earlier this week, the Federal Court reiterated its view that the prosecution of a patent application was analogous to ...
Last week, the US Patent Rules were revised to remove the Claims and Continuations Final Rule, which was introduced in 2007 but never implemented.
Th...
On July 29, 2009, the Federal Court upheld an earlier order dismissing a prohibition application under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) R...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has released its decision in Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services (Fed. Cir....
In a successful impeachment action against a Pfizer patent on amlodipine besylate, the Federal Court indicated that laudatory language extolling an in...
In Apotex Inc. v. Syntex Pharmaceuticals International Ltd., 2009 FC 494, the Federal Court held that under the 1993 Patented Medicines (Notice of Com...
New proposed rules for post-final action practice in the Patent Office
In the wake of Belzberg v. Commissioner of Patents, 2009 FC 657 (currently und...
The Federal Court of Appeal confirmed in Apotex Inc. v. ADIR, 2009 FCA 222 that the Janssen-Ortho obviousness factors were consistent with the obvious...
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled in Merck Frosst Canada Ltd. et al. v. Apotex Inc., 2009 FCA 187, that s. 8 of the Patented Medicines (Notice of Comp...
In the recent decision of Pfizer Canada Inc. v. Novopharm Inc., 2009 FC 638, the Federal Court provided another important decision relating to the law...
Research in Motion announced today that it had entered into a definitive agreement to settle all outstanding worldwide patent litigation between i...
A recent decision of the Federal Court in Prenbec Equipment Inc. v. Timberblade Inc., 2008 FC 584, confirms that without evidence of prejudice to th...
The Federal Court shut down further examination and ordered the grant of a patent application that had been subjected to protests, a final action r...
In, Geographic Resources Integrated Data Solutions Ltd. v. Peterson, Master MacLeod of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled that the defendant ...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office released a beta version of its revamped website for public testing and comment. The data available throu...
On June 1, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari for In re Bilski, the recent CAFC decision that significantly curtailed the ability to p...
The Canadian Patent Office has released draft revisions of Chapters 12 and 13 of the Manual of Patent Office Practice, the publication that sets out P...
Finds Amazon's "1-Click" system unpatentable
In Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Rivett, 2009 FC 317 and Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Janssens, 2009 FC 318, the Federal Court delved into the calculation of an ...
In the recent decision of Eli Lilly Canada Inc. v. Apotex Inc., 2009 FCA 97, the Federal Court of Appeal affirmed the dismissal of Eli Lilly's pr...
Court affirms refusal to set aside order in view of party's litigation strategy
A feature article in the latest issue of the Canadian Bar Association's National entitled, "Business patent overhaul", quotes Bruce Stratton on t...
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has opened a consultation period on its proposed practice notice regarding unity of invention pursuant to se...
Earlier this month, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office opened consultations on the second package of proposed amendments to the Patent Rules. T...
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has published the updated biotechnology chapter in the Manual of Patent Office Practice on biotechnology. Th...
A November, 2008 decision of the Federal Court has further defined the scope of the discovery phase in patent infringement actions. In AstraZeneca v...
SCC clarifies that the test for obviousness is not intended to be rigidly applied, refines law on anticipation
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled In Re Bilski that all patents, including business method patents, require that the process c...
Failure to respond to multiple requisitions in office action results in abandonment
Events
October 28 2010 to October 29 2010
Bruce W. Stratton will be participating on the IP panel to present the Patent Update at the Annual IT.CAN conference.
November 04 2010 to November 05 2010
Ron Dimock will be co-speaking on November 5th at the Forum on Pharma Patents ...
