In a significant decision released August 21, 2020, Choueifaty v Canada (Attorney General), 2020 FC 837 [Choueifaty], Canada's Federal Court rejected the Canadian Intellectual Property Office’s (CIPO) ...

You have an idea you keep coming back to. You’ve sketched the product in Notion, bought the domain, maybe even told a few ...

Dutch e-cigarette manufacturer NJOY attacked a patent held by its competitor VMR Products, a subsidiary of Juul Labs. The challenged patent (EP 3 626 092, “EP’092”) related to an electronic cigarette, ...

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If you're a business owner or team leader, you've been here before: you have one team member with a concern that a colleague is not pulling their weight. Another team member feels frustrated with a ...

It is established practice to judge the inventive step of an invention using the problem-solution approach developed within the European patent office. Under this approach, a claimed invention has to ...

Every business will face problems. Whether the business is a mature business or a growing startup, there will be challenges that arise. These obstacles are part of the business world. A familiar ...

Lawyers at Lavoix provide an overview of the UPC’s approach to inventive step and whether the forum is promoting its own approach rather than following the EPO In patent litigation in Europe, validity ...

Much has been written about business leadership and its relation to passion, mission, vision, product design, ESG and DEI. In fact, this type of literature is filled with new terminology for pragmatic ...