6 Key Takeaways | Considerations Before Relying on AIA Prior User Rights
According to the relevant provisions of the Patent Law of the People's Republic of China, if the same product has been manufactured, the same method has been used, or the necessary preparations have been made for...more
UPDATE: On November 3, 2020, the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Amgen’s appeal. See our article here. On April 16, 2020, Justice Southcott of the Federal Court issued the first decision under the amended Patented...more
Fleet Feet, Inc. is a national running equipment retail store chain and owner of the trademarks CHANGE EVERYTHING and RUNNING CHANGES EVERYTHING for retail sporting goods stores and athletic apparel and related goods and...more
A dispute over the trademark KIVA involving use of the mark with health food and cannabis continues to smolder in the Northern District of California. In late 2018, Kiva Health Brands (a national health food and...more
The clock starts ticking for a company to decide how best to protect an invention as soon as it is developed. Two likely candidates that a company’s counsel should evaluate are: (1) patent protection; and (2) trade secret...more
The clock starts ticking for a company to decide how best to protect an invention as soon as it is developed. Two likely candidates that a company’s counsel should evaluate are: (1) patent protection and (2) trade secret...more
The Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2 brought about several changes to the Patent Act that affect the scope of protection available under Canadian patents, including revision of section 56, concerning rights of prior...more