Angelcare Canada Inc. v. Munchkin, Inc.
| Jurisdiction | Federal Jurisdiction (Canada) |
| Court | Federal Court (Canada) |
| Citation | 2022 FC 507 |
| Date | 07 April 2022 |
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...clear, convincing and cogent to satisfy the balance of probabilities test”: Angelcare Canada Inc v Munchkin, Inc, 2022 FC 507 at para 155, citing FH v McDougall, 2008 SCC 53, [2008] 2 SCR 41 at para 46; Canada (Attorney General) v Fairmont Hotels Inc, 2016 SCC 56, [2016] 2 SCR 720 at......
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...[206] The party alleging infringement has the burden of proving it on a balance of probabilities: Angelcare Canada Inc v Munchkin, Inc, 2022 FC 507 at para 155 [Angelcare]. The evidence to establish infringement must be "sufficiently clear, convincing, and cogent to satisfy the balance......
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...CGK is the technical background of the Skilled Person against which the prior art must be considered: Angelcare Canada Inc v Munchkin Inc, 2022 FC 507 at para 88, citing Laddie J in Raychem Corporation’s Patents, [1998] RPC 31 at 40. As stated by Mr. Justice Michael Manson in Biogen ......
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...who claims invalidity based on anticipation to prove its allegation on the balance of probabilities: Angelcare Canada Inc v Munchkin, Inc, 2022 FC 507 at para 287 [136] Anticipation is not to be construed from a mosaic of documents or disclosure but should instead be found in a single discl......
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...CGK is the technical background of the Skilled Person against which the prior art must be considered: Angelcare Canada Inc v Munchkin Inc, 2022 FC 507 at para 88, citing Laddie J in Raychem Corporation’s Patents, [1998] RPC 31 at 40. As stated by Mr. Justice Michael Manson in Biogen ......
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...(1) General Principles [143] Inventions are required to be, as the term implies, inventive [see Angelcare Canada Inc v Munchkin Inc, 2022 FC 507 at para 359]. A patent is not valid if it is not inventive or if the invention it claims would have been obvious to the Skilled Person on the clai......
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Canadian Patent Law 2022: A Year In Review
...obligation of confidentiality may avoid an anticipatory disclosure - Patent Act, Section 28.2 In Angelcare Canada Inc v Munchkin Inc, 2022 FC 507, the Federal Court rejected an allegation that certain claims of the patents at issue were anticipated by a disclosure by the inventor of a compu......
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