Bill C-363
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This enactment amends the Patent Act to require the Patented
Medicine Prices Review Board to conduct an annual investigation of
patentees of inventions pertaining to medicines to determine whether
they have made fair and reasonable efforts to make available in Canada
for the treatment of seriously ill persons medicines for which they hold
the patent. Not later than the 30th day of September in every year, the
Board must submit a report regarding its annual investigation for the
preceding year to the Minister.
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The enactment also provides that the Patented Medicine Prices
Review Board must, at the request of a seriously ill person, make an
investigation similar to the one described above concerning the
patentee of an invention pertaining to a medicine referred to in the
request. In such a case, the Board is given a brief period in which to
conduct its investigation and to submit its report to the Minister of
Industry.
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