March 2010
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Myriad gene patents invalid - decision by federal... →
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Myriad gene patents ruled invalid by US district... →
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Apple Buys iPad Trademark from Fujitsu →
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Patent Office releases Unity of Invention practice...
Just got this in my email:
Please be advised that the Commissioner of Patents has authorized a practice notice regarding Unity of Invention.
The practice notice is a follow-up to the practice notice released on March 24, 2009, and further clarifies Office practice with regard to section 36 of the Patent Act.
The practice notice is available on the CIPO web site at the following ...
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Supreme Court dismisses COVERSYL leave application
As previously discussed here, the Court today declined to hear Apotex’s appeal and made an order dismissing the application for leave to appeal with costs. Congratulations to GSK and its litigation team at Ogilvy Renault!
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CBA Quarterly case summaries
The Canadian Bar Association, IP Section, has released a new set of case summaries (for October - December 2009).
Link to previous quarter’s cases.
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Generics get Court to expunge Advair Diskus design...
In a decision released yesterday, Justice Barnes sided with a number of generic drug makers and ordered Glaxo Group’s OBLATE SPHEROID Design mark, pictured to the left, expunged. The Court considered evidence from physicians, pharmacists and patients. The Court said,
I am satisfied from this evidence that colour and shape are not the primary characteristics by which GSK distinguishes the...
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Top Canadian Court to hear COVERSYL patent case?
The Supreme Court of Court will decide this week whether to hear an appeal of the Servier case. This is a pharmaceutical patent case involving an ACE inhibitor marketed under the brand name Coversyl.
Both trial and appellate courts concluded that Apotex, the generic drug maker, was infringing the ADIR/Servier patent. Apotex has now appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada.
A summary of the case...
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Americanidol.ca and 3 other recent CDRP decisions
Four complaints; four orders to transfer. Complainants under the CIRA Dispute Resolution Policy are certain to be celebrating the latest batch of decisions. In four decisions released this year, arbitrators ordered the transfers of all disputed domains:
windows7.ca (decision)
americanidol.ca (decision)
sickchildren.ca (decision)
revenuquebec.ca (decision)
Interestingly, in the sickchildren.ca...