2010-01-19
Coming into effect on March 11, 2010, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office will generally grant to applicants, if justified, only one extension of time for a period of six months to reply to an Office Action. Beyond that period, the applicants will need to show exceptional circumstances to be granted an additional period of time.2009-10-28
We are pleased to announce that at the IPIC 83rd Annual Meeting held in St. John's, Newfoundland, Me Alain M. Leclerc was nominated member of Council for 2009-2011. This Canadian professional association is comprised of over 1,700 members from Canada and abroad. At the same meeting, Me Leclerc was appointed President of the IPIC Committee on Patent Agents Exam Revision. He is also IPIC Council Representative of the Patent Agents Examining Board.2009-10-09
The Québec Government will invest $122.77 million, including $30 million for Genome Québec, over the next three years to consolidate Québec’s position in biopharmaceuticals.2009-07-29
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) recently introduced a new online service for Canadian Applicants allowing the e-filing of PCT applications including the electronic submission of sequence listings. Based on changes to the PCT Administrative Instructions on July 1, 2009, such e-filing of PCT sequence listings results in considerable savings in PCT filing fees when filing large documents. Goudreau Gage Dubuc was the first Canadian firm to use this e-filing service and submit electronically, for Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc., a PCT application and its sequence listing. Besides facilitating the filing of large documents, this new service brings significant savings to our clients.2009-07-27
Goudreau Gage Dubuc is proud to announce that Alain Dumont, Ph.D., has successfully completed the Patent Agent exams. Alain joimed GGD on January 9, 2006, and practices in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical areas. Click here to view his biography.2009-05-26
Goudreau Gage Dubuc is proud to announce the nomination of Charles Goyer as Member of the Board of Directors of Montréal InVivo for a mandate of two years. Montréal InVivo is the trade name for the life sciences and health technologies cluster of Metropolitan Montréal. This creative cluster is ranked 1st in Canada in terms of the number of research centers and total university research funding.2009-05-19
Congratulations to Chantal Desjardins, Co-Managing Partner of Goudreau Gage Dubuc, who was recently appointed on the Board of Directors of CEAD Diffusion (Centre des auteurs dramatiques), a non-profit organization established to develop and promote Québec and French-Canadian plays and playwrights.2009-05-14
The 9th Edition of the Genesis Awards Gala, organized by BIOQuébec and which recognizes outstanding achievement by companies and individuals that play a key role in the growth of Québec's biotech, health technology and life sciences industries, was presented in Montréal on May 14, 2009. During this gala, Goudreau Gage Dubuc, which sponsors the Innovation Award since 2001, proudly presented its prize to Medicago Inc. Medicago is a biotechnology company focused on developing protein-based vaccines and biopharmaceuticals.2008-04-21
GGD is continuing its growth as a specialized intellectual property firm. While the firm has been in operation for the past 40 years, the litigation group is brand new.
Mtre Greg Moore, the partner responsible for the litigation group, and Mtre Chantal Desjardins, who heads the trade-mark group and is the firm’s co-managing partner, recently scored an important victory for a client in the agri-food industry. The client was threatened with an interim injunction that would have forced it to remove several hundred thousand units of its product from store shelves. The Court rejected the request for the injunction, to the great relief of the client. According to Mtre Moore, "We’re working hard to develop a reputation as specialists in intellectual property litigation. We’ll get there thanks to the meticulous preparation of our files – preparation which is the result of close collaboration between our clients and our experienced in-house patent and trade-mark specialists."
GGD’s patent practice is also experiencing strong growth. We have 10 patent agents recognized by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, which ranks us second in Quebec. According to Mtre Alain Leclerc, the partner responsible for the patent group and co-managing partner, "our attractiveness in the marketplace is responsible for our accelerating growth. Nevertheless, we focus our efforts on quality work and let our growth occur naturally."
2007-10-26
Goudreau Gage Dubuc on Managing IP website : Goudreau Gage Dubuc are newcomers to the rankings. Goudreau Gage is a firm to watch and is already garnering high praise from clients. A US lawyer extolled the firm's virtues: "I love working with Goudreau. The firm has a personal touch that is really useful."