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Ce n’est pas le moment d’être trop rusé ou formaliste en matière d’oppositions soit au titre ou au mémoire descriptif puisque, comme le dit le juge en chef Duff, au nom de la Cour, dans l’arrêt Western Electric Company, Incorporated, et Northern Electric Company c.
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We must look to the whole of the disclosure and the claims to ascertain the nature of the invention and methods of its performance, . . ., being neither benevolent nor harsh, but rather seeking a construction which is reasonable and fair to both patentee and public. There is no occasion for being too astute or technical in the matter of objections to either title or specification for, as Duff C.J.C. said, giving the judgment of the Court in Western Electric Company, Incorporated, and Northern Electric Company v. Baldwin International Radio of Canada [[1934] S.C.R. 570], at p. 574, “where the language of the specification, upon a reasonable view of it, can be so read as to afford the inventor protection for that which he has actually in good faith invented, the court, as a rule, will endeavour to give effect to that construction”. Sir George Jessel spoke to like effect at a much earlier date in Hinks & Son v. Safety Lighting Company [(1876), 4 Ch. D. 607]. He said the patent should be approached “with a judicial anxiety to support a really useful invention”.
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