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News

• Revised chapters of the Manual of Patent Office Practice released April 16, 2018

Activities and initiatives

• Patent Quality
• Patent Examination Interview Service
• Four patent special provisions you could benefit from
• Filing an international application PCT National and PCT International
• Want to present your technology to a patent examiner? (PETS)
• Fast track your application with the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH)
• Amendments to the Patent Act: Questions and Answers
• Group B+ work on substantive patent law harmonization
• Patent Product Evaluation - Office Actions
• Patent examiner recruitment

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Patents database

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Apply for a patent

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• Fast track your application with the PPH program
• Fact sheet: U.S. provisional and comparable Canadian patent process

Patent Appeal Board (PAB)

• What the PAB does
• Commissioner's decisions
• Supreme Court decisions
• Federal Court decisions
• Federal Court of Appeal decisions
• Canada's Access to Medicines Regime

Filing an international application

• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) kit
  • Submit a national PCT
  • Submit an international PCT

Patent legislation

• Patent Act
• Amendments to the Patent Act (not yet in force)
• Patent Rules