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Wednesday 20 June 2012

Daiichi in the CJEU: a note on the hearing

Constantinos Kilimiris (Patrinos & Kilimiris, Athens) has written to draw attention to our previous post here on the SPC blog and here on the IPKat blog regarding the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Case C-414/11 Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd, which his firm is handling on behalf of Daiichi.

Constantinos has kindly provided us with this short report of the CJEU's hearing of this case, which his firm attended together with Herbert Smith, on behalf of Daiichi. He reminds us that this the first case regarding the interpretative jurisdiction of the CJEU on the provisions of TRIPS after the Lisbon Treaty. Present at the hearing were representatives of no fewer than eight Member States and the European Commission. The Advocate General's Opinion is pencilled in for 15 November 2012 and the CJEU's decision is expected some time in 2013.
Posted by Jeremy at 10:02 pm
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