The Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) prolongs the term of patents for pharmaceutical products for a maximum of five additional years. The legal bases are two European SPC Regulations, and the SPC is based upon European or national patents. SPCs protect some of the most valuable products in the pharmaceutical industry, where each day of additional protection may be worth millions of euros. Despite the economic relevance SPCs have obtained in recent years, there exists only limited detailed literature on the subject. German jurisprudence on SPCs is of special importance, as this has...