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About Articles The following articles are published by the Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association. Members are encouraged to submit articles. About Articles

Editors: Stephanie Carbone and Summer Lewis

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Bootstrapping an IP Program at an Innovative Company

  • November 05, 2019
  • Tracey Stott, Jeffrey Kang, Jordan Scopa and Tom Sutherland

An in-house IP counsel, IP strategist and IP litigator discuss the components of a successful IP program.

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Welcome from the Chair!

  • November 05, 2019
  • Lisa Danay Wallace, Chair

Our 2019-2020 Chair, Lisa Danay Wallace, welcomes the section and introduces the IT/IP Section’s exciting plans and programs for the year.

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Patent Potpourri

  • November 01, 2019
  • Professor Norman Siebrasse

Professor Norman Siebrasse, author of the Sufficient Description blog, summarizes a recent talk he gave to the Toronto IP Group (TIPG). Professor Siebrasse highlights several of his recent or in-progress articles.

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The Flax and the Foreign: US prosecution history in file wrapper estoppel

  • October 11, 2019
  • Brian Daley, Christopher Guerreiro and Colin Hyslop, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

In Canmar Foods Ltd v TA Foods Ltd, the Federal Court interpreted the new file wrapper estoppel provision, s 53.1 of the Patent Act, for the first time. The court held that foreign prosecution history is admissible in extraordinary circumstances under this provision.

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