Vermont Enacts a New Law to Reduce Frivolous Patent Suits

In a move that legal observers agree is a first, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin has enacted a law requiring potential patent litigants to ... Read more »

Scott Miller Successfully Sets Aside a Decision of the Commissioner of Patent Office to Irrevocably Lapse a Patent

Scott Miller and the MBM Litigation Team successfully sets aside a decision of the Commissioner of Patents to irrevocably lapse a patent - n... Read more »

Sold in New Jersey = Sold in Canada

In its first decision of 2011 (see  Celgene Corporation v. Attorney General of Canada , 2011 SCC 1), the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) cla... Read more »

Another Strong Win By MBM - Empresa Cubana Del Tabaco Trading Also As Cubatabaco v. Shapiro Cohen and The Registrar Of Trade-marks

This was an appeal from two decisions of the Registrar of Trade-Marks expunging two Cohiba cigars trade-marks. The Court concludes that: 1... Read more »

MBM Wins Before the Federal Court - Repligen Corporation v. Attorney General Of Canada

The central argument in this judicial review of a patent decision – that was accepted by the Court – is below: B. The Applicant’s Oral Argu... Read more »

Clarifying the Commissioner’s Discretion under S. 8 of the Patent Act

Congratulations to MBM on a successful Judicial Review of the Commissioner of Patent’s refusal to grant a S. 8 Clerical Error remedy on beha... Read more »