Supreme Court holds patentee cannot play hide-and-seek with the invention *

Canada - December 4 2012
In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has reiterated that an applicant for a patent must not write the patent in such a way that the true invention is obscured and admonished a patentee for not disclosing which of the claimed compound was actually found to work.

Federal Court rules that BBM is not confusing with BBM *

Canada - July 9 2012
Mr. Justice Near of the Federal Court recently dismissed BBM Canada’s challenge to the use of the trade mark “BBM” by Research in Motion Limited, in the promotion of the BlackBerry Messenger service.

Reverse engineering and product puffery lead to punitive damages *

Canada - March 13 2012
The recent decision of the Federal Court in Eurocopter v. Bell Helicopter Textron Canada, 2012 FC 113 demonstrates the potential dangers of reverse engineering a competitor’s product.