The time is ripe for the CJEU to explicitly apply its renewed doctrine on the meaning of “product” also to art. 3(c) of the SPC Regulation
The long and winding road, as The Beatles would put it, that led to the judgments of the CJEU in Teva et altri v. Gilead Sciences (Case C-121/17) and Royalty Pharma v. Deutsches Patent und Markenamt (Case C-650/17), which renewed the Court’s case law on the meaning of “product“, started in the Medeva judgment (Case…