Third Time’s a Charm: Tadalafil Use Patent Invalidated in Summary Trial
Canadian Patent No. 2,226,784 is generally directed to a pharmaceutical composition containing tadalafil or its physiologically acceptable salts or solvates for the... 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
Costs of second tadalafil prohibition application against the same patent assessed at midpoint of column IV
As we previously reported here, Justice Gleason allowed Lilly’s prohibition application in respect of the Canadian Patent No. 2,226,784 with costs following... Read More
Court proposes new date for assessing double patenting
In Eli Lilly Canada Inc v Apotex Inc, 2015 FC 875, Justice Gleason of the Federal Court prohibited the Minister of Health... Read More
Proper date for assessing double patenting is the priority date of the earlier patent – Federal Court
On January 7, 2015, Justice De Montigny released the public Judgment and Reasons in a prohibition application under the Patented Medicines (Notice of... Read More