As part of the National Prescription Drug Utilization Information System (NPDUIS) initiative, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) has released three reports...

In Canada, the Copyright Act currently providers owners with a term of protection lasting the life of all author(s) plus 50 years.

A draft of the new Guidelines is expected in the spring of 2018.

The Québec Government announced on June 17, 2015 that it will not appeal the Québec Court of Appeal's April decision confirming that the Office québécois de la langue française cannot require trademark owners to add a French descriptor to their trademarks used on public signage in another language than French in the province of Québec.

In a significant decision issued yesterday, Sleep Country Canada Inc v Sears Canada Inc, 2017 FC 148, the Federal Court issued rare interlocutory relief to a Plaintiff in a trademark case.

Le 25 juillet 2025, le Bureau des médicaments brevetés et de la liaison de Santé Canada a publié son Rapport statistique 2024/2025 pour le Règlement sur les médicaments brevetés (avis de conformité)...

Hear from Janice Bereskin as she discusses the valuable institutional knowledge of IP and the highlights of the INTA 2023 conference in Singapore, in the special podcast series...

These guidelines give a sense of what computer-implemented subject matter the USPTO considers to be ineligible for patent protection.

The world around us is becoming more reliant on technology and the practice of IP law is no exception. There are already numerous resources offered by national IP offices and agencies around the world

No details were provided as to what changes have been made over the initial conditions of the program announced in 2013.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has now released its revised and much anticipated guidelines on subject matter eligibility ("Interim Eligibility Guidance").

New Court Proceedings - March 2019

These letters advised the organizations to review their marketing practices to ensure they are compliant with the law.

On March 29, 2021, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) released a Notice of Violation setting out a $75,000 administrative monetary penalty against an individual...

On September 23, 2019, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) announced that its 2009 guidelines for processing personal data across borders

Mandatory breach reporting is now in force for organizations regulated by the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

On June 11, 2019, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the "OPC") announced that it has reframed its consultation on transfers for processing, including transborder data flows.

The European Medicines Agency ("EMEA") has updated its 2005 guideline on principles for establishing biosimilarity between an innovator product and a biosimilar.

In the United States, ever since the 2012 Supreme Court decision in Mayo v. Prometheus, many diagnostic method...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has launched a new initiative called the "Patents 4 Partnerships" IP Marketplace Platform.