CIPO has published a practice notice with new guidance on purposive construction and subject-matter for examining patents directed to computer-implemented inventions, medical diagnostic methods and medical use claims. Continue reading Patentable Subject Matter
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CIPO
The Patent Office has announced a maintenance outage of the MyCIPO Patents portal both this weekend (4pm ET Friday to 10pm ET Sunday) and next weekend (8pm ET Friday to 4pm ET Sunday).
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
The Federal Courts and the Canadian Intellectual Property Offices will be closed on Tuesday September 30th for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour the children who never returned home and survivors of residential schools. Continue reading National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
CIPO
Most of CIPO’s online applications for patents, trademarks, copyright and industrial designs will be offline this week: “Due to scheduled maintenance, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) e-commerce applications [] will be unavailable from Friday, at 8 pm until Sunday, at 10 pm (ET).” Continue reading CIPO
CIPO
CIPO has announced downtime this weekend: “Due to essential maintenance for government cloud services, all e-commerce applications at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) will be unavailable on Saturday, August 16, from 12:00 am to 11:59 pm (ET).”
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).
CIPO
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has announced an infrastructure upgrade and that all online services will be unavailable on Saturday, February 22 from 5 am to 6 pm (ET).
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
The Federal Courts and the Canadian Intellectual Property Offices will be closed on Monday September 30th for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Continue reading National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
CIPO
CIPO has relaunched its patent database earlier today after taking it offline last month to upgrade to its “Next Generation Patent” system. Features of its new MyCIPO system were launched in mid-July.
CIPO
CIPO is rolling out its “Next Generation Patent” system in the coming weeks, with MyCIPO Patents, a new online portal for patent services, launching on . The current National Phase Entry and Maintenance Fee Payment tools will be deactivated next week. The online Canadian Patent Database will be offline from July 5, with resumption “expected to occur between and