Submissions

IPIC ensures that the views of IP professionals are heard on issues that affect their practice or Canada's competitiveness in the global economy. Below is a list of IPIC's submissions in the last 2 years.

2012

Practice Respecting Inventive Concept, Statutory Subject Matter under the Patent Act, and Claims to Diagnostic Methods and Medical Uses

Consultation on Potential Free Trade Agreement Negotiations with Trans-Pacific Partnership Members (February 2012)

Letter to Minister Flaherty on Budget 2012 and Innovation (January 2012)

2011

Submission of the Copyright Policy Committee on Bill C-32

Response to the Consultation Paper on a Digital Economy Strategy for Canada

Review of Federal Support to Research and Development

Sustaining Excellence: A Modernized Regulatory Framework for Patent and Trade-mark Agents

2010

Patents

Consultation on Manual of Patent Office (MOPOP) Chapter 9 (January 2010)

Trade-marks

Proposed Practice Notice entitled Professional Designations and their Initials. (February 2010)

Proposed Practice Notice entitled Descriptiveness and Abbreviations, Acronyms or Initials. (February 2010)

2009

2008 Bill-C61 (comments completed in May 2009)

Patents

Bill S-232 (November 2009)

Proposed Amendments to the Patent Rules - Agent Exams, package #3 (October 2009)

Proposed Amendments to the Patent Rules - Patent Appeal Board, package #3 (October 2009)

Consultation on Manual of Patent Office (MOPOP) Chapters 12 & 13 - Subject-Matter and Utility. (September 2009)

Consultation on Manual of Patent Office (MOPOP) Chapters 12 & 13 - Biotechnology (September 2009)

Proposed Amendments to the Patent Rules: package #1 published in the Canada Gazette, Part I on July 11, 2009 (August 2009)

Proposed Practice Notice on Obviousness (June 2009)

Proposed Amendments to the Patent Rules: Package #2 (February 2009)

Proposal Amendments to the Patent Rules: Package #1 - Second consultation (February 2009)

Proposed Practice Notice on “Title on Invention” (January 2009)

Trade-marks

Comments on three proposed practice changes (June 2009)

Proposed Practice Notice entitled "Changes to Practice Notices" (May 2009)

Proposed Changes to the Practice in Section 45 Proceedings (March 2009)

Various

Proposed Amendments to the Federal Court Rules published in the Canada Gazette, Part I on June 13, 2009 (August 2009) (Three minor procedural amendments)

Submission to the Department of Justice in preparation for the UNCITRAL Working Group VI Meeting April 27 to May 1, 2009 regarding security rights in IP

Consultation on Possible Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Negotiations with India (April 2009)

Proposed Rules Amending the Federal Courts Rules (Summary Judgment and Summary Trial) (March 2009)