Nanotechnology: Beyond the Blockbuster

Patrick Hui is a J.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law course. Innovator companies have long founded their business plans on the search for blockbuster drugs. Blockbuster drugs are products that generate more than $1 billion in annual revenue for pharmaceutical companies and are the lifeline of these businesses. By allocating […]

File-Wrapper Estoppel or Doctrine of Equivalence: Which Way to Err?

Abolade Owoeye is at Osgoode Hall and is taking the Patent Law Course. Prosecution history estoppels also known as File-wrapper estoppel is a term used when an inventor has filed a patent application, but during prosecution of that patent application, the inventor amends the application in order to overcome a prior art. That inventor is subsequently […]