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Dimock Stratton successfully represented Ritvik Holdings Inc. (now Mega Brands) in the leading Supreme Court of Canada case on the intersection between common law trade-mark rights and functional features.

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> CIPO releases examination guidelines for computer-implemented inventions

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office today released its long-overdue guidelines on examination of computer-implemented inventions and purposive c...

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> CIPO receives comments on patentable subject matter

As part of its consultation with stakeholders, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has received and published comments on its proposed pr...

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> "Business method" inventions are patent-eligible, Federal Court of Appeal rules

In its anxiously-awaited decision released on November 24, the Federal Court of Appeal allowed the Commissioner of Patent's appeal in Commissione...

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> Patent Office appeals Amazon.com decision on patentable subject matter

This week, the Canadian government, on behalf of the Patent Office filed an appeal from the recent decision on patentable subject matter in Amazon.com...

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> Federal Court reverses Amazon decision - business methods patentable

In a bluntly-worded decision, the Federal Court reversed the Commissioner's decision in Re Amazon.com, in which the Patent Office had declared "b...

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> US Supreme Court finally issues business method patent decision

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...

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> CAFC finds method of drug dosage calibration to be patent-eligible subject matter

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has released its decision in Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services (Fed. Cir....

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> Federal Court awards Microsoft statutory and punitive damages for copyright infringement

In Microsoft Corporation v. 1276916 Ontario Ltd., 2009 FC 849, the Federal Court granted a motion for default judgment against a company and its sole ...

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> US Supreme Court to review Bilski's machine-or-transformation test

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...

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> Patent Office opens revised subject matter and examination policies for comment

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...

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> Patent Appeal Board sets out statutory subject matter approach with Amazon's 1-Click application

Finds Amazon's "1-Click" system unpatentable

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> Bruce Stratton featured in CBA's National on business method patents

A feature article in the latest issue of the Canadian Bar Association's National entitled, "Business patent overhaul", quotes Bruce Stratton on t...

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