It has been four years since amendments to the Patent Act and Patent Rules were made, bringing the Patent Law Treaty (PLT) into force in Canada. The most consequential changes have proven to be the ...

U.S. patents are currently subject to maintenance fees paid to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) at 3.5, 7.5, and 11.5 years from the date of grant to keep the patent live. The maintenance ...

“Since it is the practice of some large companies to abandon applications or issued patents – sometimes in large numbers – before the first maintenance fee comes due, under the current fee schedule, ...

Howard Lutnick has been universally criticized by industry for his reported proposal to tax patent values and revenue share ...

Filing and maintenance fees have been reintroduced on Italian patents, utility models and designs as from January 1 2007. The amounts to be paid and the applicable rules have been determined by a ...

Years before semaglutide became a blockbuster drug for Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharma giant had the chance to maintain its patent in Canada but didn’t pay a small fee to do so, according to a recent ...

For business owners, decision makers, and the attorneys who represent them, perhaps 2022 brought great change. Did your or your client's company expand, downsize or restructure? Did your client, an ...

Many startups push forward with a patent without assessing strategic alignment, which causes portfolios to get bloated with low-impact patents. The solution for this is patent pruning. Signs to look ...