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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.

Sign up to receive daily updates on intellectual property in Canada, including new IP decisions, new actions, daily activity on files you are interested in, new Patent Appeal Board decisions, new TMOB decisions, etc. Existing subscribers can manage their subscriptions to receive some or all of these alerts depending on their interest. Highlights are also available on the IPPractice.ca blog. If you are interested, you can view a sample email or subscribe. Current subscribers can modify their subscription preferences.

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.

Federal Court of Appeal

The Federal Court of Appeal has published an updated Consolidated Practice Direction. Amendments include changes on deadlines for filing fees, electronic signatures, informal motions, Rule 74 review of all new originating documents and consolidations. It takes effect today. The Consolidated Practice Direction was published in 2023 and previously updated in September 2024 and July 2025.

Federal Court

The Honourable Justice Diner has been appointed Chief Justice of the Federal Court. His appointment comes after Acting Chief Justice Honourable Martine St-Louis held the role since the Honourable Justice Paul Crampton retired in October 2025.

Summary Judgment/Trial

The Federal court has issued an updated practice notice addressing the procedures and substance of motions for summary judgments and summary trials, including early notice to the CMJ, suitable issues for determination, and resolution of scheduling and hearing issues. The guidance is found at paragraphs 48 to 57 of the consolidated Case and Trial Management Guidelines and is effective as of today.

New Privacy Bill

Bill C-36, “An Act to enact the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and to make amendments to other Acts” was introduced today to replace the privacy provisions of PIPEDA. The new Digital Safety Commission (from Bill C-34) would replace the Privacy Commisioner for enforcement. It includes provisions directed to consent (implied/explicit), de-identification/ anonymization, “automated decision systems”, scraping email addresses, and a requirement to delete personal information upon request. …Read More

Digital Safety

The government has introduced Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, directed to “social media services” and artificial intelligence “chatbot services” and potential harms to children, as well as a “Digital Safety Commission”. …Read More

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