Kristin Wall

Practice Areas

Kristin Wall provides strategic legal counsel to the innovative pharmaceutical and medical device industry across a breadth of complex litigation and regulatory matters.

She has extensive litigation experience under both the Patent Act and Food and Drugs Act, including litigation and administrative law proceedings under the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations, Patented Medicines Regulations, Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations and Food and Drug Regulations.

Ms. Wall has acted in many of the first litigation proceedings started under Canada's CETA-reformed patent legislation, including as counsel in the first series of court challenges under the Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations to secure patent term restoration. She was counsel in the first patent action started under section 8.2 of the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations – a new cause of action to assert patents that are not listed on the Patent Register. She was also counsel in the first series of cases started under section 6 of the amended Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations.

Ms. Wall has particular experience in drug pricing and reimbursement in respect of the Patented Medicine Prices Control Board (PMPRB), and the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (pCPA) and health technology assessment bodies.