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SUMMARY |
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This enactment amends the Patent Act as a result of the rulings of the
Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization in
Canada - Patent Protection of Pharmaceutical Products WT/DS114,
a case brought by the European Communities and their member States
and decided on April 7, 2000, and in Canada - Term of Patent
Protection WT/DS170, a case brought by the United States and decided
on October 12, 2000.
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The ruling in the Pharmaceutical Products case was implemented
by the repeal of the Manufacturing and Storage of Patented Medicines
Regulations, SOR/93-134. This enactment repeals the now obsolete
provisions of the Act which authorized the making of those regulations.
The implementation of the ruling in the Term of Protection case requires
amendments to sections 45, 78.1, 78.2, 78.4 and 78.5 of the Act.
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