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This past year was truly an important year for Canadian decisions on business method patents, both from the Court and the Commissioner of Patents, and these decisions are receiving rapid attention
The Federal Court of Canada has opened the door to software and business method patents in Canada by decisively overruling1 the decision of the Commissioner of Patents in Amazon.com Inc.’s application for its 1-Click online ordering system
On November 24, 2011, the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal released a vital decision quashing the Commissioner of Patents’ stated “tradition” of excluding business methods from patentability
A typical business method patent contains claims to innovative, computer-implemented technology related to the practice, administration, or management of an enterprise, usually involving the processing of data specific to enterprise operations
