Friday, November 9, 2012

Breaking News: Canadian Supreme Court Invalidates Pfizer's Viagra patent

This is truly a bad year for patentees all over the world. In an extremely critical development, the Supreme Court of Canada has invalidated Pfizer's patent on Viagra on grounds of insufficient disclosure (reported here). The decision was a unanimous one (7-0). One is yet to read the contents of the decision, but this is a truly monumental development which is bound to keep us all engaged for sometime to come.

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