EU Advocate General Sides With Pfizer Over Orifarm’s Parallel Importing Of Enbrel
Executive Summary
An advocate general of the Court of Justice of the EU has given an opinion in the case of Pfizer v Orifarm that, if followed by the full court, will clarify the scope of the “specific mechanism” that was introduced to give patent holders protection against parallel imports from the acceding member states between 2004 and 2013.