CCT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Patent Infringement, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
10 Dec 2016
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Patent filing: companies ibm leads with over 5,000 patents per year, countries switzerland receives approximately 100 patents per 1m citizens canada achieves 20 per 1m citizens. At the time of the patent application would have been obvious to one skilled in the industry: utility. Claims and patent infringement: broad claims provide extensive protection to the patentee, narrow claims promote innovation by other individuals or organizations. What rights do patent holders have: the exclusive right to work a patent, the rights to exclude inventions that are essentially equivalent to the invention. Duration of patents: by international agreement most countries (including canada) grant exclusion rights to patentees for a 20 year period from the time of filing. Patents are not an automatic right: patents are granted by the canadian patent office which is part of the canadian. Disclosure: the adequate description of an invention must provide enablement and reveal the. "best mode" for making or using the invention.
