Her experience advising on commercial products means she regularly handles the complex interplay between patents, supplementary protection certificates and regulatory data protection. (carpmaels.com)
The same legislation also provides for the granting of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), which give additional patent protection of up to five years where there has been a regulatory delay in allowing patented medicines to be sold on the EU market. (cigionline.org)
One surprising gap in the EPO's information database covers the European Community's Supplementary Protection Certificate scheme, which is among the most significant patent developments of recent years in Europe. (newscientist.com)