Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) are a form of patent term extension right that are available in the EU for medicinal products.
Tune into this episode of Covington’s Life Sciences Audiocast where Inga Pietsch discusses some of the developments in SPC case law from the European Court of Justice in relation to the SPC grant requirement that a product must be protected by a basic patent in force and take a closer look at the Commission’s proposal to update the EU SPC regime to introduce a new unitary SPC.