On October 29^th Bill C-86, purposing changes to the Patents Act and Trade-marks Act, was tabled in the House of Commons.

Some of the purposed changes to the Patent Act include:

• Providing rights to the Governor in Council to regulate standard essential patents (patents related to technology that needs to comply with technical/industry standards)
• Changes to the definition of Prior Use
• Adding provisions for protection from infringement for experimentation, granting it is not for commercial use

Some of the purposed changes to the Trade-marks Act include:

• Adding bad faith as a grounds for opposition in a trademark registration
• The ability granted to the Registrar to remove official marks that are owned by entities that no longer exist
• Proof of use for the registered mark will be required in actions regarding infringement and depreciation of goodwill up until the third anniversary of the registration