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Daily Intellectual Property News

Daily intellectual property news delivered to your email inbox. Over 1200 IP professionals, including lawyers in private practice, in-house counsel, law clerks and lawyers at government agencies use this daily email to keep up to date on intellectual property law developments.

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Patent Retriever

You can use the patent retriever to receive PDF copies by email of most patent and published patent applications from around the world, including Canadian and from the United States. You can also obtain Canadian Patent Appeal Board decisions, United States re-issue patents and United States design patents.

Federal Court docket browser

Browse the recorded entries for Canada’s Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal. While some of this information is available directly from the Courts’ websites, this browser includes links to related proceedings, reported decisions, and links to the intellectual property at issue.

Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal hearings

A list of intellectual property hearings this week in the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, as well as all scheduled intellectual property trials, judicial reviews (including PM(NOC) hearings), and appeals to the Federal Court of Appeal.

Patent and Trademark Statistics

Various statistics on patents and trademarks in Canada, including rankings of agents in Canada by volume of applications, and old act patents.

Litigation Statistics

Investigate litigation before the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, including lists of all intellectual properties actions in the courts and the status of the actions.

TMOB

The Trademark Opposition Board has issued a practice notice requiring a “Declaration of use of AI” when “generative AI is used to create content in a document”. A couple of decisions have identified hallucinated decisions cited in submissions – see 2024 TMOB 150 and 2024 TMOB 211.

Judges’ Dinner

I’m looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues at the CBA IP Day and Judges’ Dinner in Ottawa this week. Some stats from the Federal Court for discussion:

  • from 2019 to 2024 the number of filings went from 2095 (390 or 18.6% of which were IP-related) to 3521 (289 or 8.2% were IP-related)
  • in 2019 there were 9 IP trials with 55 trial days, and in 2024 there were 7 IP trials with 54 trial days. So far in 2025, there have been 5 IP trials and 65 trial days.

Federal Court

The Federal Court has updated its FAQ on how to request copies of court documents and now has a dedicated email address for these requests – see FAQ. Some documents are available for download directly from the docket listings – see my docket browser tool.

CIPO

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has announced an infrastructure upgrade and that all e-commerce applications will be unavailable from Friday, March 14 at 4 pm (ET) until Monday, March 17 at 6 am (ET).

Appointments

Darren Thorne, Member, Refugee Appeal Division, at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada in Toronto, and Andrew J. Brouwer, Senior Counsel, Refugee Law Office, at Legal Aid Ontario in Toronto were appointed Judges of the Federal Court. Appointments were also made today to the courts in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec.

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