When Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022 she was the longest-serving monarch Canada has seen. Nobody practicing patent law today was practicing the last time the head of state changed. Does the event affect your patents?Read More

It takes about six years from your filing date to get a patent issued in Canada. You have options to reduce or increase this time and there are reasons to want to do either.Read More

We finally have a way to count the number of patent and trademark agents in Canada.Read More

See your seniority as a patent agent. As well, our profession should use people analytics.Read More

Canadian patent agents with privileges before the USPTO, please spend as little as ten minutes now to preserve your right to represent Canadians before the patent office of the United States. Also consider if our regulation system needs tweaking.Read More

It is easy to write an IP notice.Read More

You are being misled by the promise of trade secrets being free and easy. Trade secrets can be part of a complete IP program as appropriate for your innovations and business.Read More

By looking at bulk sales of patents we can see patents sell for way more than the cost of development.Read More