ARCHIVED - Consultations and Discussions
2012
- MOPOP Chapter 21: Final Actions and Post-Rejection Practice
- Proposed Change: Accelerated examination of an industrial design application where priority has been claimed
- Practice Respecting Inventive Concept, Statutory Subject Matter under the Patent Act, and Claims to Diagnostic Methods and Medical Uses
- Proposed Amendments to the Trade-marks Regulations
- Proposed Practice Notice: "Correction of errors introduced in the naming of an applicant at the time of filing or national entry."
2011
- List of trade-mark agents and register of patent agents
- Proposed changes to Manual of Patent Office Practice Chapter 14: Unity of Invention
- Proposal to send a Notice of Allowance via email
- Delay of Registration of an Industrial Design
- Assignments / Transfers and Corrective Mechanisms
2010
- Proposed Practice Notice on corrections of assignment-related information on Patent Office and Industrial Design Office records
- Document Retention and Disposal
- Non-traditional marks
- Expedited examination of patent applications related to green technology
- Trade-marks Opposition Board - Pre-Consultation Notice - Proposed Amendments to the Trade-marks Regulations
- Trade-marks - "Person" within meaning of Section 2;
- Trade-marks - Description of colour claims;
- Trade-marks - Opposition Deemed Withdrawn, Application Deemed Abandoned.
- Proposed changes to Manual of Patent Office Practice Chapter 9: Description
- An Overview of the Results from the Focus Groups of Intellectual Property Agents
2009
- Professional Designation and Abbreviations, acronyms or Initials
- Proposal to amend the Trade-marks Act
- Proposed Amendments to the Patent Rules and Trade–Marks Regulations: Patent and Trade–Marks Agents
- Proposed Amendments to the Patent Rules: Post-Final Action Procedures
- Patents: Proposed Practice Notice on Obviousness
- MOPOP Chapter 12 and 13 consultation update.
- Results of CIPO's National Client Satisfaction Survey 2008
