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15 September 2008

Canadian Federal Court set to fast-track patent cases

Eileen McDermott, New York

A case between two major Canadian pharmaceutical companies could signal change for the way patent cases are tried in the country

In July this year, Servier Canada secured a victory over the largest Canadian-owned pharmaceutical company, Apotex, which Servier claimed had infringed its Canadian patent, number 1,341,196 (the ’196 patent) for the hypertension drug, perindopril.




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