Dusome v. Canada (Attorney General): Are card games patentable?
Dusome v. Canada (Attorney General): Are card games patentable? INTRODUCTION Once again, the Federal Court has reviewed a Patent Office decision concerning subject matter patent eligibility under section 2 and 27(8) and once again the Court has found the Patent Office’s decision faulty. This case is not primarily about computer-implemented inventions, however the question of […]
Patent Application defeated by simple technical default.
In May 2017 I reported on the trial decision of Mr. Justice Russell, in The Governors of the University of Alberta and Alberta Health Services v. Attorney General of Canada (2017 FC 402), see “To err is human but forgiveness is by the rules” http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/files/ca-to-err-is-human-but-forgiveness-is-controlled-by-the-rules-149101.pdf in which a patent application was irretrievably lost because of […]