Alberta Oil and Gas Clean Technology News: Expander Energy's FTCrude

A recent article in the Business Financial Post, The Energy Frontier: Expander’s Quest to turn Carbon into Cash , highlighted an impressive... Read more »

Faulkner Estate loses copyright infringement suit over use of one line from Requiem for a Nun

In Faulkner Literary Rights, LLC v. Sony Pictures Classics Inc. , the estate of William Faulkner sued Sony Pictures over use of a single lin... Read more »

Author Resale rights in Canadian Copyright Law

On May 29th, Liberal MP Scott Simms (Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor) introduced a private members bill, bill c-516, that proposes to m... Read more »

New development in Google Books saga: Google will get its chance to argue fair use

The latest salvo in the Google Books saga promises to be a big one. On July 1, the United States 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals issued an orde... Read more »

Intellectual Property Considerations in Mergers and Acquisitions

Intellectual Property may be part of a company that is acquired or with which another company merges. The Intellectual Property can take the... Read more »

I Have a Patent, Now What?

The Problem  Your concept may be novel and your invention may be exactly what everybody needs. However, unless you get your patented idea fr... Read more »

Are Isolated Human Genes Patentable In Canada?

As detailed in a previous blog , the U.S. Supreme Court found that “[a] naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not paten... Read more »

US Supreme Court rules that isolated human genes are not patentable

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf In a ruling that is sure to send reverberations around the world of intellectual ... Read more »

Supreme Court Revises Decision on Teva v. Pfizer

Originally featured on June 6, 2013 in an MBM Newsflash The Supreme Court of Canada has made a decision on Pfizer’s motion regarding the Cou... Read more »

Anti-Monopoly Laws In China

The Anti-Monopoly laws (AML) in China have been put in place to promote the “public interest” and constitute the equivalent of anti-trust la... Read more »

Concrete Protection

It is always interesting how things change and how technologies from completely different fields can be integrated together to create someth... Read more »

New Examination Practice Respecting Computer-Implemented Inventions

In March 2013, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) issued new practice guidelines regarding both purposive construction and co... Read more »

Paul Sharpe Joins MBM as Partner

MBM is thrilled to welcome Paul Sharpe as a Partner to the firm. Currently in our Ottawa office Paul and his assistant will be joining our ... Read more »

Highway pilot between the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) and the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the People's Republic of China

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has announced a new Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot project between CIPO and the Sta... Read more »

Teva Canada Innovations v. Canada (Attorney General)

Last month the Federal Court released its decision setting aside the decision of the Patent Medicine Prices Review Board (the “Board”) which... Read more »

Vermont Enacts a New Law to Reduce Frivolous Patent Suits

In a move that legal observers agree is a first, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin has enacted a law requiring potential patent litigants to cl... Read more »

CIPO May Process Final Fees Faster than Expected

Several actions can, at least theoretically, be undertaken with respect to a patent application after the final fee has been paid following ... Read more »

Chain of Title (Part 4 of an Occasional Series of Articles on Due Diligence)

Any party acquiring IP needs to be confident of the effects of the series of transactions transferring ownership from the original creators ... Read more »

Equitable Solutions to Copyright Assignment

Case Considered: Planification-Organisation-Publications Systèmes (POPS) LTÉE v. 9054-8181 Québec Inc 2013 FC 427 This case deals with an in... Read more »

Should You Get a Paid LinkedIn Account?

Many LinkedIn users wonder if they should invest in a paid LinkedIn membership. The purpose of this blog post is to give you a brief overvie... Read more »

China’s Patent Prosecution Highway Program (PPH)

As of 1 March 1, 2013, nine Patent Offices have entered into agreements with the State of Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the People’... Read more »

The Cost of Selling Outside the Network

Case Considered – Beyond The Rack Enterprises Inc. v. Michael Kors 2013 FCA 107 This is an appeal by Beyond The Rack from a decision of Just... Read more »

Beware of Latest Trade-mark Scam

We have recently become aware of yet another scam that involves sending an unsolicited letter to a Canadian trade-mark owner and offering to... Read more »

Relevant Date for Assessing Sufficiency of Disclosure

Last month the Federal Court released a decision relating to an application brought by Novartis Pharmaceutical Canada Inc. ( Novartis ) unde... Read more »