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Tuesday 28 January 2020

The AG's opinion in Santen


Thanks to Nick Fischer at Marks & Clerk law for being first to alert the blog to the AG Opinion in Santen (C-673/18) which was handed down last week. 
The official English translation isn’t available yet, but it looks like the AG favours a strict literal meaning of Article 3(d) (i.e. going against Neurim). 
Nick comments (and the blog agrees based on Google translate!) that there is also a suggestion that, if the CJEU does want to follow Neurim, it should allow SPCs for new therapeutic indications or for uses of the same active which have a pharmaceutical, immunological or metabolic action of their own. 



The Opinion is available here.




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