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Bristol-Myers Squibb & Gilead Sciences LLC v. Canada (Health)

Court (s) Database Federal Court Decisions
Date 2013-12-20
Neutral citation 2013 FC 1271
File numbers T-280-12

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Date: 20131220

Docket: T-280-12

Citation: 2013 FC 1271

Ottawa, Ontario, December 20, 2013

PRESENT:    The Honourable Mr. Justice Barnes

 

 

 

BETWEEN:

 

BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB & GILEAD SCIENCES LLC AND

GILEAD SCIENCES, INC.

 

 

 

Applicants

 

and

 

 

 

THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND

TEVA CANADA LIMITED

 

 

 

Respondents

 

 

           REASONS FOR JUDGMENT AND JUDGMENT

 

[1]               For the Reasons given in Federal Court file T-8-12, citation 2013 FC 1270 this application is similarly decided. 


JUDGMENT

THIS COURT’S JUDGMENT is that: 

 

a)                  The application is allowed in part;

 

b)                  The Minister is prohibited from issuing a Notice of Compliance to Teva in respect of its tenofovir disoproxil fumarate product until the expiry of Canadian Letters Patent 2, 261,619; and

 

c)                  The issue of costs is reserved pending further written submissions from the parties. 

 

 

"R.L. Barnes"

Judge

FEDERAL COURT

 

SOLICITORS OF RECORD

 

 

DOCKET:                                         T-280-12

 

STYLE OF CAUSE:                        BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB & GILEAD SCIENCES LLC ET AL v THE MINISTER OF HEALTH ET AL

 

 

PLACE OF HEARING:                  Toronto, ON

 

DATE OF HEARING:                    September 9 to 16, 2013

 

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT:      BARNES J.

 

DATED:                                            December 20, 2013

 

 

 

APPEARANCES:

 

Patrick E. Kierans

Louisa Pontrelli

Brian Daley

Nisha Anand

Brian John Capogrosso

 

FOR THE APPLICANTS

 

Jonathan Stainsby

William P. Mayo

Lesley Caswell

Andrew McIntyre

 

FOR THE RESPONDENT

TEVA CANADA LIMITED

 

 

SOLICITORS OF RECORD:

 

Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP

Toronto, ON

 

FOR THE APPLICANTS

 

Heenan Blaikie LLP

Toronto, ON

 

FOR THE RESPONDENT

TEVA CANADA LIMITED

 

William F. Pentney

Deputy Attorney General of Canada

Montreal, QC

 

FOR THE RESPONDENT

THE MINISTER OF HEALTH

 

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