Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

Intellectual property is a key asset of most businesses, yet IP rights are often underutilized or misunderstood as a business asset.

With the year well underway, it's an opportune time to examine the emerging and expected trends in 2025 for licensing partnerships in the life sciences industry.

For World IP Day 2025, we connected with members of our Trademarks & Copyright team for a short interview, reflecting on this year's theme from the World Intellectual Property Organization...

The evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI) is significantly reshaping various sectors across Canada, prompting a critical evaluation of our legal frameworks.

The Federal Court has granted Alexion a declaration of infringement and an injunction preventing Amgen from manufacturing, using, and selling its proposed biosimilar eculizumab product...

On January 1, 2025, Canada implemented a patent term adjustment ("PTA") system to account for unreasonable delays by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office ("CIPO") in issuing a patent.

On June 8, 2012, Genentech’s lawsuit seeking a declaration that US Patent No. 6,733,752 was invalid and not-infringed by Genentech’s trastuzumab product (HERCEPTIN).

Health Canada specifically contemplates certain proteins as SEBs in its Guidance, although Health Canada has not limited SEBs to only particular classes of drugs.

On May 23, 2012, the Federal Court held that Merck Frosst Canada Ltd. ("Merck") is liable to Apotex Inc. ("Apotex") for damages under section 8 of the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations (the "Regulations"), but exercised its discretion to reduce the amount of compensation payable based on a defence of ex turpi causa.

Intellectual property is a key asset of most businesses, yet IP rights are often underutilized or misunderstood as a business asset.

How do I best protect my invention, by patenting or keeping it as a trade secret? Do I need to register my product name as a trademark or are common law rights enough? Will copyright protect my website?

A key debate surrounding patents and AI is whether inventions created solely by AI can be patented. The basis of the patent laws in Canada, as well as those in many other countries around the globe.