There was no IPPractice email update on Thursday, March 22 due to problems accessing the Federal Court website. The update for Friday contains updates for both Thursday and Friday.

As we come to the end 2017, here is a summary of the most popular* items from the past year. CETA and NAFTA were of the most interest with four of the top five posts relating to the Eli Lilly NAFTA arbitration decision and the implementation of changes to the PM(NOC) Regulations and geographic indicators:

• March 17 – NAFTA arbitration decision
• May 16 – Bill C-30 receives royal assent
• July 14 – CETA proposed regulations published
• March 20 – NAFTA arbitration decision published
• July 24 – List of top recipients of patents in 2016

Most popular reported decisions:

• Mostar Directional Technologies Inc. v Drill-Tek Corporation et al., 2017 FC 575
• Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. v. Arctic Cat Inc., 2017 FC 207
• The Dow Chemical Company et al v Nova Chemicals Corporation, 2017 FC 350
• Sleep Country Canada Inc. v. Sears Canada Inc., 2017 FC 148
• Apotex Inc. v Eli Lilly and Company, 2017 ONSC 7204

Continue reading 2017 in Review →

As we come to the end of another year, I would like to thank all my IPPractice subscribers, currently approximately 1600. I would also like to remind you to check out your subscription preferences to take advantage of some of the features available, including:

• new Federal Court and Federal Court proceedings;
• intellectual property decisions;
• monitoring developments on specific Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada proceedings;
• newly scheduled hearings and applications in the Federal Court;
• updates on IP cases at the Supreme Court of Canada including leave applications and decisions;
• alerts on Copyright Board rulings and decision;
• newly listed innovative drugs listed by Health Canada;
• newly listed patents on Health Canada’s Patent Register;
• CIRA domain name decisions;
• Patent Appeal Board decisions; and
• Trademark Opposition Board decisions.

I welcome any feature requests, bug reports, comments and financial contributions. All the best for the holidays and I look forward to connecting with many of you in 2018!

There are reports today that Barry Sherman and his wife Honey were found dead in their home in Toronto. Barry Sherman was the founder of generic pharmaceutical company Apotex Inc, a significant player in the pharmaceutical industry both in Canada and abroad. Apotex has been a party to many patent litigation proceedings including on many of the leading decisions on patent law.