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Federal-jurisdiction 2026 FC 480

Fazio v. Altus Business Consultants Limited

The Federal Court dismissed Marie Pia Fazio’s appeal from an Associate Judge’s Rule 74 order removing her claim from the court file for lack of jurisdiction and no viable cause of action.

  • Rule-74-dismissal/removal-of-claim
  • Ito-jurisdiction-test
  • Ownership-presumption-s.13(3)-copyright-act
  • Federal-vs-provincial-jurisdiction
  • Pleading-sufficiency-for-ip-claims
  • Proportionality-in-case-management
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Patent-law 2025 FC 1916

Impulse Downhole Solutions Ltd. v. Challenger Downhole Tools Inc.

The Federal Court dismissed an appeal from a case management order refusing discovery. It held the requested drawings were not shown to be relevant to patent damages issues.

  • Discovery-relevance
  • Damages-(lost-profits)
  • Accounting-of-profits
  • Convoyed-products
  • Patent-law
  • Civil-procedure
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Patent-law 2025 FC 1725

Adeia Guides Inc. v. Videotron Ltd.

The Federal Court considered patent validity, claim construction, infringement, and remedies in a dispute between Adeia Guides Inc. and Videotron Ltd. over interactive television technologies.

  • Infringement
  • Validity
  • Claim-construction
  • Anticipation
  • Obviousness
  • Double-patenting
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Patent-law 2025 FC 1809

Dusome v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court allowed judicial review of a patent refusal for a poker game method, finding errors in claim construction and subject-matter analysis.

  • Patentable-subject-matter
  • Purposive-construction
  • Definition-of-"invention"-(s.2-patent-act)
  • Subsection-27(8)-patent-act-(scientific-principle/theorem-exclusion)
  • Computer-implemented-inventions
  • Business-method-patents
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Civil-procedure 2025 FC 1949

Unilin Beheer B.V. v. 6035558 Canada Inc.

The Federal Court dismissed defendants’ motion to set aside a discovery schedule and stay steps pending a security for costs motion, awarding the plaintiffs $6,000 costs.

  • Case-management
  • Security-for-costs
  • Stay
  • Discovery
  • Motions
  • Abuse-of-process
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Patent-law 2025 FC 1078

McCain Foods Limited v. J.R. Simplot Company

The Federal Court construed key patent terms in McCain’s potato-processing patent, found Simplot’s PEF process outside the claims, and dismissed the action.

  • Claim-construction
  • Infringement
  • Patent-validity
  • Overbreadth
  • Utility-(sound-prediction)
  • Anticipation
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Patent-law 2025 FC 754

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Amgen Canada Inc.

Federal Court upheld Alexion’s 810 Patent, finding Amgen failed to prove anticipation or obviousness and granting infringement relief for BEKEMV eculizumab.

  • Anticipation
  • Obviousness
  • Claims-construction
  • Injunction
  • Delivery-up/destroy
  • Patent-medicines-(notice-of-compliance)-regulations
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Patent-law 2025 FC 669

Pharmascience Inc. v. Janssen Inc.

The Federal Court refused leave for contested reply expert evidence in a patent damages motion, finding it went beyond proper reply and amounted to case-splitting.

  • Reply-expert-evidence
  • Case-splitting
  • Admissibility-of-expert-reports
  • First-mover-advantage-analysis
  • Damages-for-regulatory-delay
  • Leave-to-file-expert-reports
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Intellectual-property 2025 FC 552

Beheer B.V. v. 6035558 Canada Inc.

The Federal Court dismissed an appeal from a case management order allowing pleading amendments to add individual defendants in a patent action.

  • Amendment-of-pleadings
  • Lifting-the-corporate-veil
  • Directors'-personal-liability
  • Limitation-periods-and-choice-of-law
  • Standard-of-review-of-interlocutory-case-management-decisions
  • Patent-infringement
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