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    The Patent Act (French: Loi sur les brevets) is Canadian federal legislation and is one of the main pieces of Canadian legislation governing patent law...
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  • Patent Act and Patents Act (with their variations) are stock short titles used in Canada, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United...
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    Patent infringement is an unauthorized act of - for example - making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for these purposes a patented product...
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    of Canadian patents is within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Canadian federal government and is governed by the federal Patent Act, the Patent Rules...
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    the greater part of intellectual property (IP) in Canada. CIPO's areas of activity include patents, trademarks, copyright, industrial designs and integrated...
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  • certified, a registered patent agent is given powers under the Canadian Patent Act to represent applicants applying to the Canadian Intellectual Property...
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  • of 1836 Patent Act of 1870 Patent Act of 1952 Patent Reform Act of 2005 Patent Reform Act of 2007 Patent Reform Act of 2009 Plant Patent Act (1930) American...
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    Restoration Act – Invention Secrecy ActPatent ActPatent Act (Canada) – Patent Act of 1790 – Patent Act of 1836 – Patent Act of 1922 – Patent Act of 1952...
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  • of patents. In October 2015, the High Court of Australia ruled that naturally occurring genes cannot be patented. Per Canada's Patent Act, patents are...
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  • patent law that formalized slaveholders' ownership of their slaves' inventions. This Confederate Patent Act explicitly allowed slave owners to patent...
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  • Amazon.com Inc v Canada (Commissioner of Patents) is a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal concerning the patentability of business methods within...
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    The Canada Act 1982 (1982 c. 11; French: Loi de 1982 sur le Canada) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and one of the enactments which...
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  • Letters Patent, 1947 (formally, the Letters Patent Constituting the Office of Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada), are letters patent signed...
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    S. patent system since the Patent Act of 1952 and closely resembles previously proposed legislation in the Senate in its previous session (Patent Reform...
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  • Novelty is one of the patentability requirement for a patent claim, whose purpose is to prevent issuing patents on known things, i.e. to prevent public...
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    Once an invention is patented in Canada, exclusive rights are granted to the patent holder as defined by s.42 of the Patent Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. P-4)...
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    patent law was revised in 1844 – patent cost was lowered and importation patents were abolished. The first Patent Act of the U.S. Congress was passed on...
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    The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark...
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  • The Copyright Act (French: Loi sur le droit d’auteur) is the federal statute governing copyright law in Canada. It is jointly administered by the Department...
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  • Patriation is the political process that led to full Canadian sovereignty, culminating with the Constitution Act, 1982. The process was necessary because, at...
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    the Canadian Armed Forces. Constitutionally, command-in-chief is vested in the Canadian monarch, presently King Charles III. Since the Letters Patent, 1947...
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  • mentioned in the Canadian Patent Act. Canadian courts have held that the use of a computer in an invention neither lends, nor reduces patentability. Therefore...
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  • wishes to obtain patents in those countries. However, some regional offices exist, such as the European Patent Office (EPO), which act as supranational...
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  • Environment and Climate Change. The Act is, from time to time, supplemented by regulations and letters patent published in the Canada Gazette. A list of recent...
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  • of software inventions within the context of the Patent Act (Canada). At issue was the patentability of a method of combining and analyzing borehole measurements...
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    Britain, and Canada, but many other patents were approved in countries around the globe. Many inventions developed by Tesla were not put into patent protection...
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  • Letters Patent, 1947, the institution is, along with the institution of the Crown it represents, the oldest continuous and uniquely Canadian institution...
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    in Canadian patent law comparable to that occupied by the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) in United States patent law. Patent Act (Canada) Manual...
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    Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly the British North America Act, 1867) and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Constitution Act, 1867 provides...
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    letters patent has evolved into the modern intellectual property patent (referred to as a utility patent or design patent in United States patent law) granting...
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