Are you an inventor or someone with an invention? If you are, then this article is for you. Inventions help us advance as a society and can promote social benefit. But making an invention is not cheap. A lot of time, labor, and resources probably went into making the invention. So an inventor would probably […]
Thinking about protecting your invention? If you are an inventor, you may have thought about obtaining protection for your invention. But what forms of protection are available to ensure that your invention is protected? One possible form of protection would be acquiring a patent for your invention. A patent would grant the inventor […]
It is no secret that in order to obtain a patent, the invention must be a “useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof”, (35 U.S.C. 101) but is allowing patenting of DNA taking the “useful” requirement too far? Canada doesn’t think so. Canada’s Intellectual Property Office has no qualms […]