Happenstance Prior Art Disclosure Of Claim Element Insufficient To Support Obviousness
This judgment was made following the hearing of an application under the PM(NOC) Regulations involving Valeant’s Glumetza™, a proprietary formulation of metformin... Read More
It’s all About Construction
Valeant’s Canadian Patent No. 2,524,300 claims a modified-release bupropion tablet with three parts: a core comprising the active ingredient and various excipients;... Read More
Subject Matter Of A Compound Claim Cannot Be Expanded Beyond What It States – FCA
On September 18, 2017, the Federal Court of Appeal released its decision in BMS’ appeal of a decision dismissing its prohibition application... Read More
Desvenlafaxine Polymorph Patent Not Obvious – Federal Court
The Federal Court simultaneously issued a pair of prohibition orders against Teva and Apotex in relation to the drug desmethyl-venlafaxine succinate, which... Read More
Venlafaxine Section 8 Damage Award Reaffirmed Upon Redetermination
Back in 2014, the Federal Court issued its judgment in Teva’s section 8 damages action in relation to the drug venlafaxine. On... Read More
Aitken Klee successful in Teva Olanzapine Section 8 Damages Case
The Federal Court recently issued its decision in Eli Lilly Canada Inc. v. Teva Canada Limited, 2017 FC 88, Teva’s action for... Read More
Court of Appeal Clarifies Meaning Of “Inventive Concept”
On April 11, 2017 the Federal Court of Appeal released its decision in BMS’ appeal from a Judgment of the Federal Court... Read More
Teva Successful In Pregabalin Section 8 Damages Case Against Pfizer
On March 30, 2017 Justice Phelan issued his Public Reasons for Judgment awarding Teva damages under section 8 of the PM(NOC) Regulations... Read More
Sufficiency Only Requires A Description Of One Way Of Making The Inventive Product
On January 12, the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Apotex’s appeal of Justice Barnes decision (see our previous post here) holding Canadian Patent... Read More
Federal Court Prohibits Approval Of Generic ADHD Drug
In Janssen Inc. v. Actavis Pharma Company, 2016 FC 1361, Janssen sought an order prohibiting the Minister of Health from issuing a... Read More
Decision To Not File Evidence On Motion To Dismiss Sinks Prohibition Application
On December 8, 2016 Prothonotary Aalto dismissed Valeant’s prohibition application against Apotex regarding metformin as an abuse of process. Apotex’s Notice of... Read More
Pharmascience Sleeping Like A Baby After Sublinox Patent Win
On December 9, 2016 Justice Manson released his Public Judgement and Reasons dismissing Meda’s application for a prohibition order regarding Pharmascience’s zolpidem... Read More
PATANOL Statutes of Monopolies claim struck as premature but other pleadings survive
Actavis had been named as a respondent in an application under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations in respect of two... Read More
Does Double Patenting Have A Relevant date? Perhaps
In Apotex Inc. v Eli Lilly Canada Inc., the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Apotex’s appeal of the Federal Court decision that... Read More
Hospira Awarded $495,000 In Costs Despite Evidentiary Gap In The Reasonableness Of Certain Disbursements
In Eli Lilly Canada Inc v The Minister of Health et al, Justice Barnes awarded Hospira its costs against Eli Lilly in... Read More
Without Early Working, Cross-Referenced Drug Submissions Need Not Address Listed Patents: Court of Appeal
On October 12, 2016 the Federal Court of Appeal released a number of judgments dealing with the circumstances in which a cross-referenced... Read More
Conference call transcript sinks TRUVADA combination patent
On August 19, 2016, the Federal Court released the public judgment and reasons by Justice Brown in 2016 FC 856. The case... Read More
Prohibition Order Granted Against Generic VIREAD Product
On August 23, 2016, the Federal Court released the public judgment and reasons by Justice Brown in 2016 FC 857. The case... Read More
Court of Appeal Upholds Promised Utility Of Iron Chelation Patent
On September 15, 2016 the Court of Appeal dismissed Teva’s appeal Justice O’Reilly’s prohibition Order preventing the Minister of Health from approving... Read More
Federal Court Grants Order Bifurcating Apotex’ Section 8 Action
In Apotex Inc. v. Alcon Canada Inc., 2016 FC 720, Prothonotary Tabib granted Apotex’ motion for bifurcation of its section 8 action... Read More
Save It For The Action: Filgrastim Appeal Dismissed As Moot
In Amgen v Apotex, the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed Amgen’s appeal of the Federal Court decision that dismissed Amgen’s application for... Read More
Code Words Result In NOA Insufficiency
In Bayer Inc. v. Fresenius Kabi Canada Ltd., Justice Brown of the Federal Court granted Bayer’s prohibition application relating to the drug moxifloxacin... Read More
Need for the Court to make a proper determination weights heavily in Apotex’ motion for reply evidence
Background On November 10, 2015, Justice, Hughes dismissed Amgen’s application an Order preventing the Minister of Health from issuing a Notice of... Read More
Any publicly available teaching, no matter how obscure, is citable for obviousness – Court of Appeal
The Patent Act was amended in 1993 to to require that an invention cannot be obvious to the skilled person having regard to information that was... Read More
Expert blinding not determinative in ADDERALL XR prohibition application
On April 7, 2016., Justice Locke released his Judgment and Reasons in a prohibition application involving Shire, Apotex and the latter’s proposed... Read More