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Canadian patent law 2024: a year in review

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2024 was an active year in Canadian patent law, with the Federal Court issuing several decisions on the merits regarding invalidity and/or infringement. The courts also considered issues of the regulation of patent agents,...more

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Federal Court of Appeal upholds decision finding Seedlings' LifeCard patent invalid and not infringed by Pfizer’s EpiPen

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On July 28, 2021, the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) dismissed Seedling’s appeal from the Federal Court decision of Justice Grammond (2020 FC 1, previously reported), which concluded that certain claims of Seedlings' LifeCard...more

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Federal Court of Appeal finds summary trial appropriate, upholds dismissal of ViiV’s action for patent infringement re: Gilead’s...

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Update: On September 15, 2021, ViiV applied to the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal (Docket No. 39823). The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by ViiV from a decision of the Federal Court granting...more

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Federal Court dismisses ViiV’s action for patent infringement re: Gilead’s BIKTARVY following summary trial on claim construction

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Update: see our article here regarding the dismissal of ViiV’s appeal. On April 6, 2020, the Federal Court granted Gilead’s motion for summary trial and dismissed ViiV’s action: ViiV Healthcare Company v Gilead Sciences...more

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Federal Court of Appeal requires PMPRB to re-determine whether patent ‘pertains to’ Galderma’s DIFFERIN

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By: Urszula Wojtyra On June 28, 2019, the Federal Court of Appeal granted the appeal of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB or Board) and returned to the Board the matter of whether the invention of the 237...more

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New Use Patent for Janssen’s REMICADE valid and infringed by Hospira’s biosimilar INFLECTRA

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On March 7, 2018, the Federal Court upheld the validity of Kennedy’s patent for a use of infliximab (Janssen’s REMICADE) (Patent No. 2,261,630 [the “630 patent”]), and granted Kennedy’s counterclaim that Hospira’s biosimilar...more

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Apotex’s Infringement of AstraZeneca’s Omeprazole Formulation Patent Upheld

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The Federal Court of Appeal, in a unanimous decision released on January 12, 2017 (2017 FCA 9), has affirmed the validity of AstraZeneca’s Patent No. 1,292,693. The patent covered AstraZeneca’s successful product, LOSEC, for...more

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More Than a Pinky Promise: Recent Developments to the Promise Doctrine in Patent Law

Don’t want your patent invalidated? Then you should diligently vet any promissory language in that patent because, as the following cases illustrate, such language raises significant risks of patent invalidation on the basis...more

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