SPCs – we wait in vain for clarity from Europe

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15 April 2014
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Partners Matthew Jones and Andy Sharples have had an article on Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) published by US news source IP Law360.

In ‘SPCs – we wait in vain for clarity from Europe’, Matthew and Andy summarise three recent judgements from the Court of Justice of the European Union which attempted to provide clarity as to how key terms in the SPC legislation are to be interpreted.

Read the article here (registration required).

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