Re: [d@DCC] Looking for case history access - help from law students/etc

From: ag737 _-at-_ freenet.carleton.ca (Wallace J.McLean)
To: discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 16:25:14 -0400 (EDT)

>Schlumberger Canada v Com. of Patents
>  63 C.P.R. (2d) 261 (S.C.C.) 1982
>  56 C.P.R. (2d) 204 (F.C.A.) 1981
>
>  Not being a legal student, I don't really even know what the reference
>information means other than the dates.

The first number is the volume of...
the abbreviated case report series (Canadian Patent Reports)...
2d tells you it's the second series (they usually institute a new series
of reports for a given title when the volumes get up to a certain high
number.)..
SCC tells you it's the Supreme Court of Canada judgment (1982)
FCA tells you it's the Federal Court of Appeal (1981)

FC would tell you it's the trial judgment in the Federal Court.

F.C. trial and appeal decisions back to 1992 are at:

http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fct/

Some SCC (the media prefers the abomination SCOC) cases back to 1983 are at:

http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/en/


Not much help for Schlumberger, but it might be useful for you in the future.


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