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Canada's recently appointed Minister of Health, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, just announced the deferral of the coming into force of recent amendments to the Patented Medicines Regulations...

In an earlier edition of Fully Secured (December 14, 2011– Volume 2, Number 4) we reported on pending amendments to the BCPPSA.

On April 13, 2023, Stealth Monitoring ("Stealth") announced that it had acquired Caliber Communications and Syncro Monitoring (collectively "Caliber").

Creating and protecting trademarks has long been an important aspect of doing business in Canada, and 2021 was certainly no exception.

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has implemented a new Global Patent Prosecution Highway pilot program starting January 6, 2014.

In another step towards building stronger bilateral relations and fast-tracking the examination of counterpart patent applications, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office ("CIPO") and the European Patent Office ("EPO") have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") to establish a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program between the two patent offices.

On September 1, 2013 the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China launched a Patent Prosecution Highway pilot project.

Canada is a rare trademark jurisdiction that does not presently require that goods and services in trademark applications be classified according to the Nice Classification System.

On November 7, 2012, the Governor General in Council proclaimed into force the majority of the Copyright Modernization Act, which was given Royal Assent June 29.

Changes to Canada's Trademarks Act scheduled to take effect on June 17 have led to a noted increase in trolling activity and filing of "all-class" applications.

Consider early renewal of your Canadian trademark registrations now. The current government fee to renew registrations is $350. Registrations ...

Crocs has successfully asserted an industrial design that covers its MAMMOTH line of clogs, establishing infringement by Double Diamond's knock-off Fleece Dawgs products.

At trial, the claims in issue of the 646 Patent were held to be valid in the face of Apotex's obviousness, anticipation, overbreadth, and insufficiency allegations.

The March 2017 High Court judgment granted declaratory relief to FKB, which was attempting to launch a product and protect it against later, as yet ungranted, patent applications by AbbVie Technology.

Once the Unified Patent Court (UPC) comes into force in 2023, users in receipt of a granted European patent will have the option of requesting unitary effect in addition to the existing scheme of

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) announced in May 2021 several practices to improve timelines in examination.

When your tech company is scaling-up, your legal strategy needs to keep pace. This is true all around the globe for companies of all sizes, whether going from small to medium or medium to large...

On June 16, 2011, LinkedIn made certain changes to its privacy policy which are causing quite a stir, both in the media and among LinkedIn users.