“In just a year of lobbying and focusing stakeholder input, better access to Public PAIR data is now available to all stakeholders. It’s good to see America’s Innovation Agency innovating again in ...

The Canadian Patent Act was amended last year to include a new provision which allows prosecution histories into evidence in patent proceedings to rebut representations made by the patentee regarding ...

Under Taiwan's patent practice, patent applications become publicly available for inspection after they are laid-open or published. However, someone wishing to obtain a copy of the entire file wrapper ...

The Supreme Court of Canada in Free World Trust v Électro Santé Inc, 2000 SCC 66 rejected the use of extrinsic documents such as file wrappers (patent prosecution histories) for claim construction, on ...

Paul Dougherty is a former Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and he works with me regularly, helping me with patent applications and Office Actions. Paul is also an ...

Michael Manson talks to Managing IP about case efficiency, file wrappers and how his court was ‘pushed into the digital era faster than we ever wanted’ Like most other courts across North America and, ...

Prosecution files are admissible to rebut representations made by a patentee on the construction of a claim in a patent, the Federal Court of Appeal has found in dismissing an appeal in a ...