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Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations

Version of section 2 from 2006-10-05 to 2008-06-11:


 In these Regulations,

claim for the dosage form

claim for the dosage form means a claim for a delivery system for administering a medicinal ingredient in a drug or a formulation of a drug that includes within its scope that medicinal ingredient or formulation; (revendication de la forme posologique)

claim for the formulation

claim for the formulation means a claim for a substance that is a mixture of medicinal and non-medicinal ingredients in a drug and that is administered to a patient in a particular dosage form; (revendication de la formulation)

claim for the medicinal ingredient

claim for the medicinal ingredient includes a claim in the patent for the medicinal ingredient, whether chemical or biological in nature, when prepared or produced by the methods or processes of manufacture particularly described and claimed in the patent, or by their obvious chemical equivalents, and also includes a claim for different polymorphs of the medicinal ingredient, but does not include different chemical forms of the medicinal ingredient; (revendication de l’ingrédient médicinal)

claim for the medicine itself

claim for the medicine itself[Repealed, SOR/2006-242, s. 1]

claim for the use of the medicinal ingredient

claim for the use of the medicinal ingredient means a claim for the use of the medicinal ingredient for the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of a disease, disorder or abnormal physical state, or its symptoms; (revendication de l’utilisation de l’ingrédient médicinal)

claim for the use of the medicine

claim for the use of the medicine[Repealed, SOR/2006-242, s. 1]

court

court means the Federal Court of Canada or any other superior court of competent jurisdiction; (tribunal)

expire

expire means, in relation to a patent, expire, lapse or terminate by operation of law; (expiré)

first person

first person means the person referred to in subsection 4(1); (première personne)

medicine

medicine[Repealed, SOR/2006-242, s. 1]

Minister

Minister means the Minister of Health; (ministre)

notice of compliance

notice of compliance means a notice issued under section C.08.004 of the Food and Drug Regulations; (avis de conformité)

patent list

patent list means a list submitted under subsection 4(1); (liste de brevets)

register

register means the register of patents and other information maintained by the Minister in accordance with subsection 3(2); (registre)

second person

second person means the person referred to in subsection 5(1) or (2) who files a submission or supplement referred to in those subsections. (seconde personne)

  • SOR/98-166, s. 1
  • SOR/99-379, s. 1
  • SOR/2006-242, s. 1
  • err. (E), Vol. 140, No. 23

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