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Intellectual property 2023 FC 925

Fromfroid S.A. v. 1048547 Ontario Inc

The Federal Court found the cooling cells were built before the patent expired, infringed claims 1 to 3, and awarded compensatory and punitive damages.

  • Patent infringement
  • Date of construction
  • Circumstantial evidence
  • Presumptions of fact
  • Damages (compensatory and punitive)
  • Reopening trial
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Civil procedure 2021 FC 1427

Farmobile, LLC v. Farmers Edge Inc.

The Federal Court dismissed Farmobile’s appeal from a case management order on cross-examination, holding the questions about earlier redactions were improper and no further cross-examination was required.

  • Scope of cross-examination on affidavits
  • Document redactions
  • Relevance
  • Case management adjournments
  • Costs
  • Cross-examination
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Civil procedure 2021 FCA 169

Munchkin, Inc. v. Angelcare Canada Inc.

The motion to quash the appeal was dismissed and the reply evidence admitted. The Court applied the general rule from Saint John Shipbuilding that evidentiary rulings made during trial are ordinarily not appealable separately from the final judgment but declined to quash the present appeal because the appellants had not been shown to have no reasonable prospect of success and exceptional circumstances to depart from the rule were not established; the Court reserved the jurisdiction question for the merits of the appeal and ordered parties to provide submissions on whether the appeal should be…

  • Jurisdiction
  • Prematurity
  • Interlocutory orders
  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Stay pending judgment
  • Reply evidence
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Intellectual property 2018 FC 876

Living Sky Water Solutions Corp. v. ICF Pty Ltd.

The Federal Court struck the section 7(d) Trade-marks Act and section 52 Competition Act claims, but allowed the section 7(a) claim and personal claims against Behan to proceed.

  • Motion to strike
  • Particulars
  • Disclosure of contract
  • Personal liability of director
  • Statutory interpretation of trade‑marks act s.7(d)
  • Reliance element under competition act s.52
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Intellectual property 2017 FC 726

AstraZeneca Canada Inc. v. Apotex Inc.

The Federal Court rejected Apotex’s non-infringing alternative defence, denied section 8 compensation, and awarded AstraZeneca profits-based relief, including profits-on-profits.

  • Non-infringing alternative (nia) defence
  • Section 8 noc damages
  • Accounting of profits
  • Profits-on-profits interest
  • Bioequivalence and stability evidence
  • Res judicata and foreign judgment treatment
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Intellectual property 2012 FC 48

Janssen Inc. v. Teva Canada Limited

Assessment of costs in a patent case, allowing many discovery, expert and disbursement claims in part, while reducing or disallowing overhead and unsupported items.

  • Costs assessment
  • Disbursements
  • Expert witness fees
  • Photocopying and electronic discovery
  • Travel and living expenses
  • Post-judgment interest
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Civil procedure 2009 FC 569

Weatherford Canada Ltd. v. Corlac Inc.

The Federal Court finalized Exhibit 10 by Schedule A, ordered all other documents removed and shredded, and directed that the remaining items be retained as the trial exhibit.

  • Exhibit handling
  • Document identification
  • Destruction of exhibits
  • Trial procedure
  • Trial-procedure
  • Evidence
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Intellectual property 2008 SCC 61

Apotex Inc. v. Sanofi-Synthelabo Canada Inc.

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the validity of Sanofi’s selection patent for clopidogrel, rejecting anticipation, obviousness and double-patenting challenges.

  • Selection patents
  • Anticipation
  • Enablement
  • Obviousness
  • Obvious to try
  • Double patenting
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Patents 2004 FC 465

Abbott Laboratories v. Canada (Minister of Health)

The Federal Court held that SNDS 055754 was too insubstantial to support listing the 732 Patent because the relevant triple-therapy indication had already been approved.

  • Pm(noc) regulations
  • Listing eligibility
  • Supplementary new drug submission (snds)
  • Product-by-process patent
  • Labeling/indication
  • Patent-listing
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