Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 7 July 1987

1 Translated from the French.

2 Judgment of 25 February 1986 in Case 193/83 Windsurfing International v Commission [1986] ECR 611, paragraph 92.

3 See the judgment of 16 June 1968 in Lear v Adkins, US Supreme Court Reports 23 LEd2d 610, paragraph 12, which states Licensees may often be the only individuals with enough economic incentive to challenge the patentability of an inventor's discovery.

4 Case 193/83, cited above, paragraph 92.

5 Alexander: Brevets d'invention et règles de concurrence du Traité CEE, Brussels, 1971, p. 117, paragraph 48.

6 Cited above, Noie 2.

7 See, especially, paragraphs 11 and 12 of the decision.

8 Judgment of 11 July 1985 in Case 42/84 Remia v Commission[1985] ECR 2545, paragraph 18.

9 Cited above, paragraph 19.

10 Judgment of 28 January 1986 in Case 161/84 Pronuptia [1986] ECR 353, paragraph 14.

11 Judgment of 30 June 1966 in Case 56/65 Société technique minière v Maschinenbau Ulm [1966] ECR 235, Opinion at p. 259.

12 Commission Decision 72/238/EEC of 9 June 1972 (Journal Officiel L 143, 23.6.1972, p. 39).