In three rulings handed down on 1st February 2023, the Cour de cassation (the French highest civil court) applied, for the first time, the teachings of the CJEU in Royalty Pharma Collection Trust v. Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt case (C-650/17) on 30 April 2020 on Article 3 (a) of the SPC EU Regulation.
