欧州での合剤の特許権の延長(C-322/10とC-422/10)
合剤についてのECJの判決がついに出ました。侵害テストと保護テストについて、一応の決着を見ました。 今回は JETROのリリース に、やや分かりにくさがあるように思います。 C-322/10 1. Article 3(a) of Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products must be interpreted as precluding the competent industrial property office of a Member State from granting a supplementary protection certificate relating to active ingredients which are not specified in the wording of the claims of the basic patent relied on in support of the application for such a certificate. 2. Article 3(b) of Regulation No 469/2009 must be interpreted as meaning that, provided the other requirements laid down in Article 3 are also met, that provision does not preclude the competent industrial property office of a Member State from granting a supplementary protection certificate for a combination of two active ingredients, corresponding to that specified in the wording of the claims...