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Wednesday 17 February 2010

Official UK patent law reports focus on SPCs

Issue 2 (February 2010) of volume 127 of the Reports of Patent, Design and Trade Mark Cases (RPC), published for the Intellectual Property Office of the UK by Oxford University Press, contains official reports of four British decisions concerning SPCs. They are
* Merck & Co.'s SPC Extension Application (IPO, 6 February 2009, noted on The SPC Blog here);
* E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s SPC Extension Application (IPO, 9
April 2009, noted by The SPC Blog here);
* E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v Intellectual Property Office
(Patents Court, 22 May 2009, noted by The SPC Blog here);
* E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v Intellectual Property Office (Court of Appeal, 17 September 2009, noted on The SPC Blog here) .

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