CELEX: 62010CN0125
Language: en
Date: 2010-03-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-125/10: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany) lodged on 9 March 2010 — Merck & Co Inc v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt

19.6.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 161/17
            
         
      Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundespatentgericht (Germany) lodged on 9 March 2010 — Merck & Co Inc v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
      (Case C-125/10)
      (2010/C 161/24)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Bundespatentgericht
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Merck & Co Inc
      
         Defendant: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
      
         Question referred
      
      Can a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (1) be granted if the period of time between the filing of the application for the basic patent and the date of first authorisation for marketing in the Community is shorter than five years?
      
         (1)  Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (codified version); OJ 2009 L 152, p. 1