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Raising the Bar Has Not Reduced the Patent Acceptance Rate in Australia

LexBlog IP

Here, I define ‘rate of acceptance’ as the proportion of examined applications that go on to be accepted for grant. Between 2009 and 2013, the rate at which applications subject to the former (i.e. I was not one of those people, and I expect that neither were most other patent attorneys. in 2019/20.

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Foreign Prosecution History: To Admit, Or Not To Admit, That Remains a Puzzle To Canadian Courts

Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

of the Patent Act has brought about a significant shift in the Canadian approach to file wrapper estoppel by enabling the introduction of a patent’s prosecution history during claim construction. and whether it should cover communications between patentees and foreign patent offices. TA Foods Ltd. 2021 FCA 7 Section 53.1