Common use of Supplementary protection certificates Clause in Contracts

Supplementary protection certificates. 1. The Parties recognise that medicinal and plant protection products protected by a patent on their respective territory may be subject to an administrative authorisation procedure before being put on the market. They recognise that the period that elapses between the filing of the application for a patent and the first authorisation to place the product on the market, as defined for that purpose by the relevant domestic law, may shorten the period of effective protection under the patent. 2. Each Party shall provide for a further period of protection for a medicinal or plant protection product which is protected by a patent and which has been subject to an administrative authorisation procedure, that period being equal to the period referred to in the second sentence of paragraph 1, reduced by a period of five years. 3. Notwithstanding paragraph 2, the duration of the further period of protection may not exceed five years. (1) In the European Union this provision does not apply to modular products.

Supplementary protection certificates. 1. The Parties recognise that medicinal and plant protection products protected by a patent on their respective territory may be subject to an administrative authorisation procedure before being put on the market. They recognise that the period that elapses between the filing of the application for a patent and the first authorisation to place the product on the market, as defined for that purpose by the relevant domestic law, may shorten the period of effective protection under the patent. 2. Each Party shall provide for a further period of protection for a medicinal or plant protection product which is protected by a patent and which has been subject to an administrative authorisation procedure, that period being equal to the period referred to in the second sentence of paragraph 1, reduced by a period of five years. 3. Notwithstanding paragraph 2, the duration of the further period of protection may not exceed five years. (1) In the European Union this provision does not apply to modular products.

Supplementary protection certificates. 1. The Parties recognise that medicinal and plant protection products protected by a patent on their respective territory may be subject to an administrative authorisation procedure before being put on the market. They recognise that the period that elapses between the filing of the application for a patent and the first authorisation to place the product on the market, as defined for that purpose by the relevant domestic law, may shorten the period of effective protection under the patent. 2. Each Party shall provide for a further period of protection for a medicinal or plant protection product which is protected by a patent and which has been subject to an administrative authorisation procedure, that period being equal to the period referred to in the second sentence of paragraph 1, reduced by a period of five years. 3. Notwithstanding paragraph 2, the duration of the further period of protection may not exceed five years. (1) In the European Union this provision does not apply to modular products.