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12 July 2017Big Pharma

Italian PTO can review SPC limitation requests, says appeal board

The Italian Patent and Trademark Office’s (UIBM) Board of Appeal has ruled that there are no rules preventing the office from adjudicating requests to limit the term of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs).

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