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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). Read more »
- Budget
The government released its Budget 2025 today. Some intellectual property related items include: immediate expensing of productivity-enhancing assets including patents; extensions to the Elevate IP program, the Innovation Asset Collective’s Patent Collective and the IP Assist Program; modernization … Read more »
- Federal Court
Chief Justice Paul Crampton is retiring this week from the Federal Court after 16 years with the Federal Court and 14 years as Chief Justice. Associate Chief Justice Martine St-Louis will serve as Acting Chief Justice of the Federal Court effective October 31, 2025. Chief Justice Crampton announced … Read more »
- Proceeedings
The Federal Court has opened a large number of ‘reserved’ matters which are listed below, along with a few actual proceedings. These are usually populated earlier in the year rather than at the end of October. Read more »
- Proceeedings
Several matters started earlier this year were missed from the email alerts, including several IP proceedings. These missed IP proceeding are included below. In some cases, the Federal Court appeared to have opened new ’empty’ matters and only later populated the matter with the proceeding details. … Read more »