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On July 25, 2025, the Office of Patented Medicines and Liaison of Health Canada released its Statistical Report 2024/2025 for the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, Data Protection (C.08.004.1 of the Food...more
In the first half of 2021, Rx IP Update reported on a number of developments in Canadian life sciences IP and regulatory law. The Rx IP Update team at Smart & Biggar has collected the top stories from January to June and...more
The coming into force of the amended Patented Medicines Regulations has been delayed a third time, now until January 1, 2022. The amendments, once in force, will add new price regulatory factors, revise the list of...more
Revised compliance timelines for Grandfathered and Gap medicines - On April 16, 2021, in view of COVID-19, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) reversed its position on compliance timelines for Grandfathered...more
UPDATE: On January 13, 2021, the Minister of Health refused the application on reconsideration. Viiv sought but later discontinued a second application for judicial review (T-258-21). In a decision dated July 10, 2020,...more
The first decision considering the scope and meaning of the provisions in the Patent Act relating to Certificates of Supplementary Protection (CSPs) has now been released. Justice Barnes of the Federal Court in...more
September 21, 2019 was the second anniversary of the coming into force of the amended Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations (Regulations) heralding significant changes to the landscape for pharmaceutical...more
September 21, 2019 marked the second anniversary of the certificate of supplementary protection (CSP) regime in Canada. CSPs provide an additional term of patent-like protection of up to two years. In our first anniversary...more