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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…

It is never easy to lose a family member, but the loss is much more painful when the death of a loved one could have been prevented if someone had only acted responsibly. When another person’s failure to act responsibly causes injuries or death, that person or the company they work for can be held…

In product liability litigation, plaintiffs often treat a product recall as though it is conclusive proof that the product is defective or that its warnings are inadequate. Some plaintiffs even cite clearly inapplicable recalls — for example, lot-specific recalls spurred by a manufacturing or labeling issue that did not impact the unit that the plaintiff…

In modern times at least, corporations have not been terribly popular. However, since the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO about a half a year ago in New York City, observers and the corporations themselves have been paying more attention to the extreme edges of these attitudes. For nearly two decades, Persuasion Strategies has tracked anti-corporate bias…