CELEX: 62013CA0011
Language: en
Date: 2014-06-19 00:00:00
Title: Case C-11/13: 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 (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)

25.8.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 282/8
            
         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)
   
   ((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.
   
      (1)  OJ C 86, 23.3.2013.