SPCs on the agenda, and a chance to save some money

If you are attending this year's C5 Life Sciences IP Summit (programme here) in Berlin on 22 to 23 October 2015, it has a session on SPCs that looks like this:

4:15 to 5:30 A Case-Law Review of the Jurisprudence on Supplementary Protection Certificates in Europe

• Matthew Royle
  Partner
  Taylor Wessing (United Kingdom)

• Lessons learnt from C-493/12 (Lilly-HGS), C-631/13 (Forsgren), E-16/14 (Pharmaq-Intervet)
• An overview of the pending referrals concerning SPCs before the CJEU
• Understanding under which circumstances you can obtain an SPC in the context of antibody claims
• Obtaining an SPC on combinations of active ingredients for new uses
• Neurim’s, Medeva’s, Georgetown’s, AstraZeneca’s, Merck’s aftermath: an overview of the CJEU’s interpretation on development of a new indication from an old substance

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