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SPCs were introduced as a mechanism to compensate patent holders for loss in effective patent term resulting from the time taken to receive marketing authorisation for such products...

Some of the key decisions are discussed below.

Registered forms of Intellectual Property are typically associated with a variety of deadlines, both before and after registration.

A Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) is an intellectual property right available for active ingredients of human and veterinary medicinal products requiring marketing authorisation.

This review is a little shorter than some years, not because the relevant Boards have issued fewer decisions but rather because fewer of the decisions make new or interesting points.

In 2021, reporting of the case law of the EPO Boards of Appeal in the field of IT & computer-implemented inventions has been dominated but two topics: the Enlarged Board's decision relating to simulation...

A patent that has been granted by the European Patent Office may subsequently be made effective in any of the countries for which a designation, extension or validation fee has been paid.

Patent protection for plant-related inventions in Europe is available despite specific exclusions in the European Patent Convention. While plant varieties and essentially biological breeding processes are excluded, many innovations in modern plant biotechnology remain patentable. Success depends on strategic claim drafting to avoid exclusions while securing commercially valuable protection for transgenic, gene-edited, and technically produced plants.