Apotex recently sought to raise new grounds of patent invalidity in the Federal Court – premised on overpromising under insufficiency, wilful misleading and overbreadth – following the Supreme Court of Canada's decisions which had:

Justice Locke dismissed Apotex's motion.(1) As such, the validity of the patent was finally decided, with any doubt about the Supreme Court of Canada's intent resolved by the dismissal. Locke also held that AstraZeneca was entitled to a declaration of infringement and ordered the quantification of AstraZeneca's damages or Apotex's profits. Apotex has appealed.

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Endnotes

(1) AstraZeneca v Apotex, 2018 FC 185.

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