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Patents and Canadian competition laws

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • April 22 2013

In Canada, the Competition Act largely defers to the Patent Act. For example, the Act's abuse of dominance provision (s. 79 Canada's

Northern exposure?

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • April 4 2013

Davit Akman and John Norman suggest that a recently commenced investigation into alleged "product switching" and statements by the Interim

The U.S. Prometheus decision and claims to methods of optimizing dosing regimens: Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., U.S., No. 10-1150

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • April 11 2012

In a decision last month, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 9-0 ruling has held that the method claims of two patents directed to optimizing the dose of a specific drug for treating an autoimmune disease are not patentable because they merely recite laws of nature

U.S. government now anti-gene patents?

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 24 2010

The Justice Department of the United States government recently filed an amicus brief in an appeal of a U.S. Federal Court decision regarding the patentability of naturally-occurring DNA sequences, taking the position that that these are not patentable as “part of nature.”

Medical diagnostic claims and Bilski

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 9 2010

In the long awaited decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the U.S. Supreme Court has concluded that the machine-or-transformation (“MOT”) test is not the sole arbiter of patentable subject matter for “processes” under section 101 of the U.S. Patent Act

Business methods: "the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" - U.S. Supreme Court issues opinion in Bilski v. Kappos

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 9 2010

On June 28th, 2010, the United States Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Bilski v. Kappos that was hoped would clarify the law surrounding patent-eligible subject matter under section 101 of the U.S. Patent Act

Life sciences & law current issues 201213

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada, European Union, USA
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  • June 18 2012

Each stage of the life cycle of a company or a product presents challenges that demand the expertise and resources of a strong legal partner

Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada Co. et al v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals ULC et al, 2012 FC 1142 (September 27, 2012) efavirenz PM(NOC) case

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 27 2012

This proceeding brought by Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada Co. and Merck Sharpe & Dohme Corp. (“Applicants”) under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations dealt with two patents related to the Applicants’ SUSTIVA (efavirenz) product