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Publicly Traded International Patent Firms

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by Dennis Crouch In October 2022, Canada’s largest intellectual property firm became a publicly traded entity. Smart & Biggar , a firm that includes 100+ Canadian patent attorneys and agents (most of whom are also registered with the USPTO) was purchased by the Australian company IPH Limited. billion Australian dollars ($1.2

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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

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Step Five: if the respondent does not opt out, then the claim enters the “active phase.” In fact, the factual data was scraped by both of us over a period of time in 2021 and 2022 and put into a database. It took eight months, but the ownership question of the photographs has been settled. Third, Prutton uses the whole image.