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- Indefinite Hiatus
I started this blog in January of 2011. As a professor, it would have been easy to work only on projects that piqued my curiosity, but I didn’t want to write on topics of purely academic interest. By committing myself to commenting on every patent case, I wanted to force myself to learn every area o … Read more »
- Trademarks Act 7(a) Unjustified Threats Claim Fails on Second Branch
Valley Blades Ltd v Usinage Pro-24 Inc (Nordik Blades) 2023 FC 1749 St-Louis J 2,856,940 2,965,426 2,992,233 / Segmented Snow Plow Blades Valley Blades and Nordik Blades are direct competitors in the market for snowplow blades [206]. Valley Blades brought a declaratory action seeking to have Nordik’ … Read more »
- Obviousness Attack Succeeds: Overbreadth and Wilful Misleading Fail
Valley Blades Ltd v Usinage Pro-24 Inc (Nordik Blades) 2023 FC 1749 St-Louis J 2,856,940 2,965,426 2,992,233 / Segmented Snow Plow Blades Valley Blades and Nordik Blades are direct competitors in the market for snowplow blades [206]. Valley Blades brought a declaratory action seeking to have Nordik’ … Read more »
- Is a Patent Insufficient If it Requires a Minor Research Project to Practice?
Takeda Canada Inc v Apotex Inc 2024 FC 106 Furlanetto J 2,570,916 / dexlansoprazole / DEXILANT / NOC As discussed in my last post, the patent at issue in this case related to a “pulsatile” dosage form of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) comprising a PPI with “a first and a second dose,” which are relea … Read more »
- Tension in the Sanofi Disclosure Analysis
Takeda Canada Inc v Apotex Inc 2024 FC 106 Furlanetto J 2,570,916 / dexlansoprazole / DEXILANT / NOC Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are a class of compounds that decrease gastric acid level in the stomach [5]. PPIs are now a well-established treatment for GI disorders related to increased gastric aci … Read more »