Changes to Canadian Industrial Design Practice
March 28, 2017
Industrial design registration remains an underutilized form of intellectual property protection. In Canada, an original industrial design can be registered to protect the look and appearance of a finished article. Unlike a patent, which protects the way an article is used or functions, an industrial…
Read MoreTreatment of GUI Patent Claims in Canada
February 07, 2017
Canadian patent examiners sometimes object to graphical user interface claims on the basis that they are unpatentable since they have “purely intellectual or aesthetic significance.” There is an old line of decisions that hold that something having solely intellectual or aesthetic significance is…
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