Finally, a Little Miss character to spark the imagination of budding young female engineers and scientists: Little Miss Inventor.

The Hall of Fame searches for these inspirational inventors and accepts nominations throughout the year.

In honour of the Super Bowl® this coming weekend, the incredibly impressive broadcasting innovations in televised sports deserve some discussion.

Aird & Berlis LLP and Aird & McBurney LP are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration with the Black Entrepreneurship Alliance (BEA) to provide legal guidance and support for Black entrepreneurs.

The latest Federal Budget was introduced in Canadian parliament on March 22, 2017, with a focus on, among other things, science and innovation.

The NAFTA Arbitration Tribunal in the Eli Lilly "Promise of the Patent" doctrine proceeding has issued a ruling, and it appears that the result is not a good one for Eli Lilly.

The World Intellectual Property Organization recently published their World Intellectual Property Indicators for 2017, documenting many developments that shaped the global intellectual property system in 2016.

Cannabis plants contain hundreds of compounds, the most well-known of which include cannabidiol (CBD) and Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

Question: Can a patent representing a federally-mandated exclusionary right be enforced against infringers participating in illicit activity?

With Valentine's Day upon us, one would rightly suspect that there is already an abundance of patents and patent applications related to online dating software.

Marijuana for medical purposes has been available to Canadians since 1999.

Patents granted in Canada have typically carried a 20-year term of protection from the date of filing, regardless of the time taken to be examined and granted by the Patent Office ...

Proposed regulations amending the Patented Medicines Regulations ("Regulations") were published on December 2, 2017, in the Canada Gazette Part 1 for a 75-day public consultation.

On November 5, 2018, Canada's new Industrial Design Act and Industrial Design Regulations come into force.

The Federal Court of Appeal upheld this decision. AstraZeneca appealed, arguing its patent was improperly invalidated on the basis of the Promise Doctrine.

In a long-fought battle, AstraZeneca has prevailed over Apotex and has succeeded in realigning Canada's stance on utility with most of the rest of the world.

For the best part of 18 years, since the judgment of Justice Ian Binnie in Free World Trust, 2000 SCC 66, it has been well-settled law that there is no file wrapper estoppel in Canada.

In Canada, double patenting can be a difficult hurdle to overcome; the claims of a later-issued patent must be "non-coterminous" and "patentably distinct" from the claims of a co-owned earlier-issued patent.

Late Sunday night, an agreement was reached to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

Finally, in respect of the third prong, the court was convinced that this was satisfied based on the facts before it.