This sounds like a big deal to me, but it has been a while since my one EC law course, so perhaps this ruling by the European Court of Justice is not as important as it seems:
it is not contrary to Community law for Article 33 of the TRIPs Agreement to be directly applied by a national court subject to the conditions provided for by national law.
I suppose it will only really be a big deal if the national court actually decides to apply the TRIPS Agreement directly.
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