Patent Law

1. The Trade-marks Opposition Board (TMOB) has a new "Decisions" page that provides hyperlinks to final decisions reached in section 45 proceedings along with a new schedule of upcoming hearings (available HERE).

2. A series of new Web pages for intellectual property professionals, including an Industrial Designs Professional Web page (available HERE), a Trade-marks Professional page (available HERE), and a Patents Professional page (available HERE).

3. As noted by the CIPO (link HERE, under March 30, 2010), its Web site "has added an improved bilingual search capability to help you to conduct searches in both English and French on the Basic Search pages of the Canadian Patents Database, the Canadian Trade-Marks Database and the Canadian Industrial Designs Database. This feature will help to ensure that your search query includes more terms; thereby you should have an increased results list."