11/03/2022 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission opened, on Tuesday 8 March, a period for contributions on supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) that extend patent protection for specific medicinal and plant protection products. Objective: to introduce a unitary SPC with a single procedure for the granting of national SPCs. The end of the contribution period is 5 April. To access: https://aeur.eu/f/qc (PH)