Discover Aitken Klee LPP Blog

Competition Tribunal issues reasons for its dismissal of JAMP’s anti-competition allegations against Janssen

20 Dec 2024

Application, biosimilar, Canadian decisions, News

As discussed in a previous post, the Competition Tribunal dismissed JAMP’s application against Janssen alleging abuse of dominance in relation to Stelara, Janssen’s drug containing...

Patented Medicine Prices Review Board “crashed through the constitutional, statutory and jurisprudential guardrails”

09 Dec 2024

Devin Doyle

Appeal, Canadian decisions, Patented Medicines Prices Review Board

The Federal Court of Appeal issued strong reasons reprimanding the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board for overstepping its jurisdiction. The Court found “the Board crashed...

Federal Court of Appeal rejects motion for extension of time

01 Dec 2024

Aleem Abdulla, Yoo Jung Jung

Appeal, Canadian decisions, Non-pharma, Patent Impeachment

The Federal Court of Appeal considered a motion seeking both an extension of time and an order varying the Court’s dismissal of an appeal. The...

New evidence of use overturns trademark expungement

01 Dec 2024

Aleem Abdulla, Yoo Jung Jung

Appeal, Canadian decisions, Non-pharma, Trade-marks

In this trademarks appeal brought pursuant to section 56 of the Trademarks Act, the Federal Court overturned a decision by the Registrar of Trademarks to...

Federal Court denies amendments to copyright claim

01 Dec 2024

Aleem Abdulla, Yoo Jung Jung

Canadian decisions, Copyright, Non-pharma

In this copyright infringement action, GE Renewable Energy Canada Inc. (GEREC) sought to make further amendments to its Amended Statement of Claim. The Federal Court...

“Flexible set of options” in prior art not so flexible after all

01 Dec 2024

Aleem Abdulla, Yoo Jung Jung

Canadian decisions, Non-pharma

In Steelhead v. Arc Resources, the Federal Court considered the validity of Canadian Patent No. 3,027,085, which related generally to a water-based apparatus capable of...

No shake down at the C-NLOPB – GSI’s seismic ATI request unsuccessful

26 Nov 2024

Lesley Caswell, Alyssa Gaffen

Access to Information, Application, Canadian decisions, Judicial Review, Non-pharma

The Federal Court affirmed the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board’s (C-NLOPB) decision not to release information to Geophysical Service Incorporated (GSI) under the Access to...

Competition Tribunal dismisses JAMP’s abuse of dominance application against Janssen

26 Nov 2024

Devin Doyle

Application, biosimilar, Canadian decisions, News

As discussed in a previous post, JAMP brought an application under the Competition Act seeking leave to bring an application against Janssen alleging abuse of...

Blog

Recent Posts