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Canada Patent Law Needs to be Changed After Ruling, Group Says
SOURCE
Bloomberg
AUTHOR
Joe Schneider
DATE
September 29, 2008
George Locke, of our Intellectual Property Group, tells Bloomberg that Canada's patent laws must be changed to protect companies from losing rights to intellectual property when administrative errors are discovered.
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The implication of the decision is "far-reaching" because any patent could be invalidated if the later discovery of an administrative mistake in the paperwork results in a technical abandonment of the application, George Locke, a patent lawyer at the Ogilvy Renault law firm, said in a telephone interview today from his Montreal office. Locke, who wasn't involved in the case, is the chairman of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada's patent legislation committee.
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