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UK IPO continues strict approach to marketing authorisations for SPCs

This article reviews the UK IPO's decision Erber Aktiengesellschaft for an SPC application to an animal feed additive.

24 May 2021

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This article was first published by Lawtext Publishing Ltd in the BioScience Law Review vol 18 issue 1, pp24-27 who have agreed to Simmons & Simmons making it available online.

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