When Barry and Wyatt Dusome first took on the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) without legal representation, they beat long odds. We wrote about that rare victory in the area of patent eligibility. In 2025, the Federal Court found that the Commissioner of Patents had erred by failing to apply proper purposive construction to their...Read More
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
