What are SPCs? A Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) is an intellectual property right available for active ingredients of human and veterinary medicinal products requiring marketing authorisation. Originally...more
The Board of Appeal of the Italian Patent Office (Commissione dei Ricorsi), by decision published on June 26, 2017, acknowledged the right of the patent holder to ask the Italian Patent Office for the limitation of the...more
Historically, it was widely thought that it was possible to obtain a separate supplementary protection certificates (SPC) for each product covered by a patent. However, in its judgment in Medeva in 2011, the Court of Justice...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJ) issued three judgments on grant of Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) on 12 December 2013 in the cases: - C-493/12 Eli Lilly v HGS, - C- 443/12 Actavis v...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has recently ruled that an emergency Marketing Authorisation (MA) for a plant protection product does not provide a valid basis for an SPC for that plant protection product....more