Source: EURLEX
Language: en
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| 25.8.2014 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 282/8 |

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Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 19 June 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht- Germany) — Bayer CropScience AG v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt

(Case C-11/13)[(1)](#ntr1-C_2014282EN.01000802-E0001)

((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Patent law - Plant protection products - Supplementary protection certificate - Regulation (EC) No 1610/96 - Articles 1 and 3 - Terms ‘product’ and ‘active substances’ - Safener))

2014/C 282/11

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundespatentgericht

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Bayer CropScience AG

Defendant: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt

Operative part of the judgment

The term ‘product’ in Article 1.8 and Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1610/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products, and the term ‘active substances’ in Article 1.3 of that regulation, must be interpreted as meaning that those terms may cover a substance intended to be used as a safener, where that substance has a toxic, phytotoxic or plant protection action of its own.

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