Judgment_paragraph 47 · Santen SAS v Directeur général de l’Institut national de la propriété industrielle (C-673/18)

47It follows from the foregoing considerations that Article 1(b) of Regulation No 469/2009 must be interpreted as meaning that the fact that an active ingredient, or a combination of active ingredients, is used for the purposes of a new therapeutic application does not confer on it the status of a distinct product where the same active ingredient, or the same combination of active ingredients, has been used for the purposes of a different, already known, therapeutic application.