Is a pleading based on reliance on the whole of the patents listed adequate pleading?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Contour Optik Inc. c. Hakim Optical Laboratory Ltd., 2001 FCT 125 (CanLII):
Reliance on the whole of the patents listed is not adequate pleading. In Bror With v. Ruko of Canada Ltd., supra, at 8, Walsh J. reports the following extract of North J. in Heathfield v. Greenway (1893), 11 R.P.C. 17, at 19:
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