My condolences on this slight, seems Canada’s Supreme Court has no integrity or courage. It appears our court is afraid of big kahunas, the big frac’ers, will not hear appeal by Calgary-based Packers Plus Energy Services Inc.

Supreme Court dismisses appeal in long-running oilpatch technology fight by The Canadian Press, Dec 19, 2019, 660CityNews

CALGARY — A long-running court battle over who owns a well-completion technology that helped usher in the shale oil and gas boom in North America has ended.

The Supreme Court of Canada says it will not hear an appeal by Calgary-based Packers Plus Energy Services Inc. of lower court rulings that declared its patent invalid.

Packers Plus had claimed patent infringement in lawsuits against Houston-based Weatherford International and Baker Hughes, along with producer Harvest Operations Corp. and service firms Essential Energy Services and Resource Well Completion Technologies Inc. of Calgary.

In late 2017, a Federal Court judge ruled Packers’ patent wasn’t valid because the technology was an “obvious” improvement on existing techniques and it had been publicly disclosed before the patent application was filed.

In a news release, Essential Energy Services says it will attempt to recover about $5 million in costs it has incurred since the litigation began in 2013. [How can anyone claim there is a “justice” system in Canada, when litigants are burdened with such massive costs in money and years seeking “justice?”]

Packers’ system, patented in Canada in November 2002, has been used in thousands of wells to control and separate high-pressure injections of liquids and sand used to break up tight underground rock and free the oil and gas, a process called hydraulic fracturing or fracking.

In court documents it said the technology was invented by Daniel Themig and helped it grow from 30 employees to almost 1,000.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Dec. 19, 2019.

Refer also to:

Federal Court judge finds Packers Plus fracking technology patent is invalid. Are Canadian judges trustworthy, given Canada’s fascism, thus industry, appoints them?

Despite Federal Court of Canada judgment, Essential Energy vows to continue fracking patent fight

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