Supplementary Protection Certificates - Halozyme v The Comptroller
A utho r Fvasconcellos Public Domain Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Mead) Halozyme, Inc v The Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Mark s [2024] EWHC 3202 (Pat) (16 Dec 2024) This was an appeal against Dr Lawrence Cullen's decision in Halozyme, Inc. v The Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks BL O/0257/24 of 27 Mar 2024 in which he refused Halozyme Inc.'s applications for supplementary protection certificates for Trastuzumab and recombinant human hyaluronidase and Rituximab and recombinant human hyaluronidase. Supplementary Protection Certificate In my article Supplementary Protection Certificate s I described a supplementary protection certificate ("SPC") as "an intellectual property right ("IPR") that protects the active ingredients in pharmaceutical or plant protection products." I explained that: "The right comes into force upon the expi...