Provincial and territorial premiers first announced the Pan-Canadian Pricing Alliance (PCPA), an initiative aimed at facilitating multi-jurisdictional negotiations on prices of brand name drugs, back in the summer of 2010.

Health Canada has issued an update to its earlier position, and has announced its current position on certain activities associated with unapproved medical devices in Canada, and the corresponding roles and responsibilities of stakeholders and industry.

The Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations (Labelling, Packaging and Brand Names of Drugs for Human Use) – more commonly known as the "Plain Language Labelling amendments" – came into force on June 13, 2015.

Effective August 1, 2015, the electronic travel authorization program will be implemented in Canada.

One of the fundamental principles of finance is that with greater risk comes the possibility of greater returns.

Nous avions parlé dans ce billet des importants changements proposés à la Loi sur les brevets par le projet de loi C-43 ?

Health Canada introduced the regulatory amendments in July 2014 as part of its Regulatory Transparency and Openness Framework and its commitment to make information more readily available to Canadians.

Vous vous rappelez le billet de mon collègue Pierre intitulé « Fameuses nouvelles dans le Budget fédéral ! » ?

Avec juillet arrivent les vacances, la canicule et ma pelouse qui se meurt de soif ! C’est aussi le moment de l’année où les cours en propriété intellectuelle IPIC-McGill ont lieu.

MergerMarket Group recently published a research report that presents the expectations of 50 industry experts based in the US and Canada on North American mid-market M&A activity.

Executives around the world have a strong appetite to pursue acquisitions, the highest in six years, according to Ernst & Young's Global Capital Confidence Barometer (the Report), released at the end of October.

Global M&A continues to rise with over $2.19 trillion recorded in the first half of 2015, according to Dealogic data.

The global pharmaceutical sector has been rocked by several significant mergers and acquisitions in 2015...

Overall, there were 16,588 reported deals in the second half of 2014 worldwide, worth roughly $3.2 trillion; this surpasses the previous record, in the second half of 2007, of 16,060 transactions, worth roughly $3.7 trillion.

The 2014 trend of high value deals continues, according to a recently released Mergermarket Monthly M&A Insider report on global M&A activity.

Join us on Thursday, February 26, 2015 for a webinar on successor liability under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

A phenomenon is pervasive in the United States and is becoming much more common in Canada: post-deal litigation.

The Quebec Superior Court has decided, in a long-awaited judgment, that businesses in Quebec may continue to display their trademarks on public signs outside their premises solely in a language other than French if no French version of the trademark has been registered

A forum selection by-law can be used by corporations to help ensure that lawsuits regarding the internal affairs of the corporation are limited to a single jurisdiction as chosen by the corporation (usually the jurisdiction of incorporation or of the corporation's headquarters).

Scholarship plans commonly employ a commission structure that dedicates subscribers' initial contributions to paying down an up-front sales commission that is paid to sales representatives.