{"id":990772,"date":"2025-05-13T08:47:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frishberg.com\/?p=990772"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:09:59","slug":"supplementary-protection-for-pharma-patents-new-procedure-in-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frishberg.com\/uk\/supplementary-protection-for-pharma-patents-new-procedure-in-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Supplementary Protection for Pharma Patents: New Procedure in Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pharmaceutical companies in Ukraine have gained new opportunities to extend the patent protection of medicinal products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 19, 2025, the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine approved the Procedure for Examining Requests for Supplementary Protection of Invention Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2021, the issue of obtaining supplementary legal protection in Ukraine remained unresolved: the old instruction became outdated, and no new regulation had been adopted. 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