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ISED News

Last week, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada made a couple of announcements as part of the government’s IP Strategy:

2018 Wrap Up

We are now a couple of weeks into 2019 but I thought a brief summary of 2018 may be of interest:

  • 175 IP decisions reported (201 in 2017)
  • 363 new IP Federal Court proceedings started (376 in 2017)
    • 83 patent infringement cases (50 in 2017)
  • 23,499 patents granted (24,099 in 2017)
  • 25,222 trademarks registered (29,766 in 2017)
  • 9 IP related SCC proceedings started (11 in 2017)
  • 6 IP trials in Federal Court (10 in 2017)
    • around 120 trial days (~150 in 2017)
  • Over 400,000 emails sent to IPPractice subscribers

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Due to a network problem last week, IPPractice was not operational for several days. Today’s email includes the missing updates but let me know if you think I have missed anything.