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Everyone hates driving in traffic. The stop and go. The lurch when you accelerate for a moment, then are forced to slam on your brakes when someone cuts into your lane. It’s uncomfortable, unpleasant and fuel-inefficient, not to mention bad for the…
This past July, Canada's Federal Court of Appeal decision in Corlac Inc. v. Weatherford Canada Inc., 2011 FCA 228 ( “Weatherford”) ruled in the duty of good faith owed to the Patent Office by an applicant. In the process, the Court may also…
The America Invents Act (AIA) has significantly changed the processes available for prosecuting and challenging a patent. In this final section, I will outline these changes. I’ll start by describing electronic filing and prioritized examination.…
George Orwell’s "Nineteen Eighty-Four" envisioned a world subjected to pervasive government surveillance and incessant mind control at the hands of ever-present Big Brother. It seems that now, over 60 years after this dystopian…
The US Court of Appeals has ruled that isolated genes from human DNA structures are patentable in the case of The Association for Molecular Pathology v. USPTO [1] . USpatent law provides that ‘products of nature’ are not patentable. Do these…
There is a cloud of complexity around the term ‘patents’. Patents, as is known, are granted over inventions. But a very common misunderstanding about patents is that they are granted for those inventions which are highly technical or complex in…
