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Subject to a suplimentary protection certificate may be good protected on the Romanian teritory by means of a valid patent of invention and which before having been placed on the market has been authorized as a medicament for human or veterinary use.

The application for a suplimentary protection certificate must be filed to the State Office for Inventions and TradeMarks within six months from the first valid authorization to place the medicament on the Romanian or on the European Comunity market.

The certificate shall take effect starting on the lawful expiry of the basic patent for a period of time equal with the amount of time between the filing date of the patent application and the date of the first authorization to place the medicament on the Romanian or the European Comunity market minus 5 years.