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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.

Patentable Subject Matter

The Patent Appeal Board has issued its final decision on the redetermination following the Federal Court’s decision in Dusome v. Canada (Attorney General), 2025 FC 1809. The PAB concluded that the claims were not directed to patentable subject-matter. …Read More

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

The Federal Courts and the Canadian Intellectual Property Offices are closed on today, September 30th for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour the children who never returned home and survivors of residential schools.

Appointments

Justice Nicholas McHaffie, a Judge of the Federal Court, was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal. An appointment was also made today in Quebec. …Read More

IPIC

I’m looking forward to catching up with friends and colleagues at the IPIC Annual Meeting in Ottawa this week. Please let me know if you are attending as well! …Read More

Patents

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) launched the Key Technology Expedited Program (KTEP), replacing the earlier program expediting pandemic-related inventions with a new pilot relating to Canada’s “critical minerals supply chain, including technologies used to process, extract or refine minerals on Canada’s critical minerals list.” CIPO also summarized the consultation feedback it received on its accelerated patent examination programs. …Read More

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