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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificates-rules-1997/schedule-1/part-1/crossheading-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificates-rules-1997/schedule-1/part-1/crossheading-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/64",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificates) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificates-rules-1997",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/1/crossheading/2",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "ARTICLE 2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any product protected by a patent in the territory of a Member State and subject, prior to being placed on the market as a medicinal product, to an administrative authorization procedure as laid down in Council Directive 65/65/EEC or Directive 81/851/EEC may, under the terms and conditions provided for in this Regulation, be the subject of a certificate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L22, 9.12.1965, page 369. Last amended by Directive 89/341/EEC (OJ No. L142, 25.5.1989, p. 11)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L317, 6.11.1981, p. 1. Amended by Directive 90/676/EEC (OJ No. L373, 31.12.1990, p. 15)."
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:47.107599+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}