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Drug Pricing Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) Prescription Drugs

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PMPRB announces Anie Perrault as acting Chairperson and releases latest expenditure report on private drug plan costs and...

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On March 6, 2025, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) announced that Thomas Digby stepped down from his role as Chairperson of the PMPRB. Vice-Chairperson Anie Perrault is now serving as acting Chairperson until...more

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PMPRB releases report on expensive drugs for rare diseases

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On January 11, 2022, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) released a report entitled Expensive Drugs for Rare Diseases: Canadian Trends and International Comparisons, 2011-2020 as part of the National...more

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PMPRB releases analytic study of Canadian oncology market

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On October 27, 2020, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) released the National Drug Prescription Utilization System’s (NDPUIS) analytic study of the Canadian oncology market for 2010 to 2019. The study is...more

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Update on biosimilars in Canada – August 2020

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The following provides an overview of the many developments regarding biosimilars in Canada (approvals, pending submissions, regulatory, litigation and market access) that have taken place since our last update in October...more

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Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) report upward trend of...

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CIHI: On December 17, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) published statistics on drug spending, finding that in 2018, around 40% of drug spending was spent on 2% of beneficiaries. Out of this 2%, three out...more

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PMPRB releases draft Guidelines operationalizing amended Patented Medicines Regulations

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On November 21, 2019, the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board (“PMPRB”) released draft new Guidelines for consultation, together with a backgrounder. The new Guidelines are intended to operationalize the amended Patented...more

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Other PMPRB News

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The PMPRB has released its CompassRx, 2017/18 Annual Public Drug Plan Expenditure Report and related news release reporting various statistics about prescription drug expenditures by Canadian public drug plans....more

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Countdown to July 1, 2020: Getting Ready for the New Patented Medicines Pricing Regime

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On August 21st, the long-awaited amendments to the Patented Medicines Regulations were published in Part II of the Canada Gazette. We have prepared an unofficial consolidated version of the Regulations incorporating the...more

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Rx IP Update - July 2019

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Federal Court of Appeal requires PMPRB to re-determine whether patent ‘pertains to’ Galderma’s DIFFERIN - On June 28, 2019, the Federal Court of Appeal granted the appeal of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB...more

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Rx IP Update - February 2017

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Federal Court of Appeal rules on non-infringing alternatives and apportionment as defences to an accounting of profits from patent infringement - On February 2, 2017, the Federal Court of Appeal released a...more

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RX IP Update - January 2017

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Apotex’s Infringement of AstraZeneca’s Omeprazole Formulation Patent Upheld - As previously reported, the Federal Court of Appeal, in a unanimous decision released on January 12, 2017 (2017 FCA 9), has affirmed the...more

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