Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and an IP Osgoode Student Intern in the inaugural Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program (IP Intensive).

On Friday, September 9, 2011, members of IP Osgoode, participants of the inaugural IP Law & Technology Intensive Program, IP enthusiasts, along with friends and family, gathered at Osgoode Hall Law School to celebrate two additions to the intellectual property literary world: Intellectual Property Law: Copyrights, Patents, Trade-marks, 2nd ed. by Prof David Vaver and Copyright, Communication and Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Law by Prof Carys Craig.

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Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.

On August 16, 2011, the US Court of Appeal released the decision of Cybersource Corporation v Retail Decisions Inc. reinforcing that a process that can be done merely by a series of mental steps is not patentable subject matter under s.101 of Title 35 of the United States Code. This decision, if considered by the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal, could have negative implications for the Amazon.com case currently on appeal before it.

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Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.

In response to the Federal Court’s decision in Amazon.com, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has issued further guidelines to its patent examiners regarding subject-matter patentability.

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Amelia Manera is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.

In Bartly v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents), 2011 FC 873, a recent decision of the Federal Court, Justice Hughes clarifies that a Final Action by the patent examiner indeed means a final action. In other words, a Final Action is where all application objections are to be disposed of with no opportunity to hold objections in reserve for future consideration.

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