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A patent holder in Canada has the exclusive right, privilege and liberty to making, constructing, using and selling the invention for the term of the patent, from the time the patent is granted. Any person who does any of these acts in relation to an invention without permission of the patent owner is liable for patent infringement.
When faced with an action for patent infringement, the defendant has a number of defences that they can use. These roughly fall into three categories:
Remedies in Canadian patent law generally track both common law and equitable remedies. Equitable remedies include injunctions and an accounting of profits. Common law remedies include damages aimed at putting the plaintiff in the position he would have occupied had the infringement not occurred.