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From setting a clear overall strategy to drafting high-quality claims, Christopher Wheeler and Gerald Murphy of Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch explain how to reduce patent prosecution expenditure and ...

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Brigide Mattar, Patrick Roszell and Lei Liu of Smart & Biggar outline advantages of Canada’s patent prosecution system and offer tips to avoid pitfalls With specialised and generally patent-friendly ...