A recent article in the Business Financial Post, The Energy Frontier: Expander’s Quest to turn Carbon into Cash , highlighted an impressive... Read more »
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A recent article in the Business Financial Post, The Energy Frontier: Expander’s Quest to turn Carbon into Cash , highlighted an impressive... Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 may be part of a company that is acquired or with which another company merges. The Intellectual Property can take the... Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
It is always interesting how things change and how technologies from completely different fields can be integrated together to create someth... Read more »
In March 2013, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) issued new practice guidelines regarding both purposive construction and co... Read more »
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 »
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has announced a new Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot project between CIPO and the Sta... Read more »
Last month the Federal Court released its decision setting aside the decision of the Patent Medicine Prices Review Board (the “Board”) which... Read more »
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 »
Several actions can, at least theoretically, be undertaken with respect to a patent application after the final fee has been paid following ... Read more »
Any party acquiring IP needs to be confident of the effects of the series of transactions transferring ownership from the original creators ... Read more »
Case Considered: Planification-Organisation-Publications Systèmes (POPS) LTÉE v. 9054-8181 Québec Inc 2013 FC 427 This case deals with an in... Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Last month the Federal Court released a decision relating to an application brought by Novartis Pharmaceutical Canada Inc. ( Novartis ) unde... Read more »