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25 April 2018Big Pharma

AG opines on ‘thorny issue’ in Truvada SPC clash

Advocate General Melchior Wathelet has advised the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on a case involving a supplementary protection certificate (SPC).

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28 June 2018   Switzerland’s highest court held that new supplementary protection certificates for combination products should be governed by the relevant EU law, in a dispute over a Swiss SPC owned by Gilead Sciences.
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