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. Continue reading Patentable Subject Matter
Tag Archives: Canadian Intellectual Property Office
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.
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. Continue reading Patents
Patentable Subject Matter
CIPO has issued its preliminary determination on the Dusome remand following the Federal Court’s decision in Dusome v. Canada (Attorney General), 2025 FC 1809. My colleague Richard Mar has the following summary and context.
Patentable Subject Matter
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
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).