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- 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. From the announcements: Federal Court: The Honourable Nicholas McHaffie, a Judge of the Federal Court, was appointed a Judge of the Federal Cou … 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! I’ll be taking the train and arriving on Wednesday afternoon. Hope other attendees also decide to travel by train rather than fly from Toron … 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 … Read more »
- Summer break
I’m going to be on vacation next week so decided to pause my daily IPPractice emails. I plan to resume on August 17 and will catch up on whatever was missed once I am back. I think this is the first time I have done a planned vacation pause to the daily emails in the … Continue reading Summer break … Read more »
- Pre-grant Compensation
In my latest column for Slaw on patent publication dates, I discuss how the publication date for patent applications can be later than the typical 18-months secrecy period due to processing delays at the patent office. I have found regularly filed patent applications with publication dates more than … Read more »