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New in this Edition

For the first time in its history, this edition now includes two separate volumes of the print version. This edition features an updated preface and updated Year in Review sections featuring recent case law in Patents, Copyright, Trademarks, and Domain Names.

Additional New Content:

• Trademark Practice Notices:
• Name or Surname Paragraph 12(1)(a) of the Trademarks Act
• Fee Payment: General Authorization to Charge a Deficency
• Fee Payment Practice of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• Official Notice: Payment of Fees

• Trademark Opposition Board Practice Notices
• Email Communications of Hearing Correspondence
• Publishing of Practice Notices

Updated Acts and Regulations:

• Patent Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. P-4
• Patent Rules, SOR/2019-251
• Patented Medicines Regulations, 1994, SOR/94-688
• Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations, SOR/2017-165
• Industrial Design Regulations, SOR/2018-120
• Competition Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-34
• By-laws of the College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents (College), SOR/2021-167

Updated Documents:

• Manual of Patent Office Practice
• Copyright Board of Canada List of Tariffs
• CIRA Registrant Agreement
• CIRA Domain Name Dispute Resolution Rules
• Industrial Design Practice Office Manual
• Competition Bureau Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines
• Contracting Parties to the Patent Cooperation Treaty
• Patent Cooperation Treaty Regulations
• Contracting Parties to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
• Contracting Parties to the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations
• Contracting Parties to the WIPO Copyright Treaty
• Contracting Parties to the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty
• Contracting Parties to the Madrid Protocol for the International Registration of Marks
• Contracting Parties to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• Contracting Parties to the Marrakesh Treaty

• Trademark Practice Notices
• Security Agreements
• Licence Agreements
• Electronic Register
• Transfers and Change of Name
• Correspondence Procedures
• Standard Character Trademarks

• Trademark Opposition Board Practice Notices
• Opposition to Protocol Applications and Section 45 Cancellation Proceedings Against Protocol Registrations

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