Crisp boundaries: Federal Court defines the scope of protection for French fry manufacturing process patent

In McCain Foods Limited v J.R. Simplot Company (2025 FC 1078), the Federal Court of Canada found that the Defendant’s use of pulsed electric fields (PEF) to pretreat potatoes before further processing into French fries did not infringe the Plaintiff’s Canadian Patent No. 2,412,841 (the “’841 Patent”). The Court found that the term “high electric field” as used in the……
By: Smart & Biggar