Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has laid out a five‑year business strategy that directly affects how patents will be examined. For inventors, companies, and IP professionals, the plan signals CIPO’s intent to change. However, we will see if there are meaningful changes in pendency, quality, digital tools, and policy.  Background CIPO is the federal agency...Read More

The Canadian Commissioner of Patents published a decision rejecting a patent application by an artificial intelligence system and naming the AI as an inventor. Keeping with established practice, the commissioner accepted the advice of members of the Patent Appeal Board that an artificial intelligence system cannot be named as an “inventor”. The applicant, Stephen L....Read More