CELEX: 62007CA0482
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-482/07: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 September 2009 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank te ’s-Gravenhage (Netherlands)) — AHP Manufacturing BV v Bureau voor de Industriële Eigendom (Patent law — Proprietary medicinal products — Regulations (EEC) No 1768/92 and (EC) No 1610/96 — Supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products — Conditions for granting certificates to two or more holders of basic patents for the same product — Clarification on the existence of pending applications)

24.10.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 256/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 September 2009 (Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank te ’s-Gravenhage (Netherlands)) — AHP Manufacturing BV v Bureau voor de Industriële Eigendom
   (Case C-482/07) (1)
   
   (Patent law - Proprietary medicinal products - Regulations (EEC) No 1768/92 and (EC) No 1610/96 - Supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products - Conditions for granting certificates to two or more holders of basic patents for the same product - Clarification on the existence of pending applications)
   2009/C 256/05
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Rechtbank te ’s-Gravenhage
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: AHP Manufacturing BV
   
      Defendant: Bureau voor de Industriële Eigendom
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Rechtbank te ’s-Gravenhage — Interpretation of Articles 3(1)(c), 7(1) and (2), 9 and 13 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 of 18 June 1992 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (OJ 1992 L 182, p. 1) and of recital 17 and the second sentence of Article 3(2) 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 (OJ 1996 L 198, p. 30) — Issue of a certificate to the holder of a basic patent for a product which, at the time of submission of the application for a certificate, is the subject of one or more certificates issued to one or more holders of other basic patents
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 3(c) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 of 18 June 1992 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products, considered in the light of the second sentence of Article 3(2) 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, must be interpreted as not precluding the grant of a supplementary protection certificate to the holder of a basic patent for a product for which, at the time the certificate application is submitted, one or more certificates have already been granted to one or more holders of one or more other basic patents.
   
      (1)  OJ C 8, 12.1.2008.