Advertising of pharmaceuticals, case VII SA/Wa 1157/07

December 7th, 2007, Tomasz Rychlicki

The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 3 October 2007 case file VII SA/Wa 1157/07 held that a given activity is deemed as the advertising of pharmaceutical product, if it involves the transfer of information on the product while encouraging its use – i.e., it must be information describing the medicinal product in a way to encourage its use, information that is passed to increase the number of prescriptions, the supply of pharmaceutical product or its sale or consumption.

See also “Polish regulations on pharmaceutical trade marks” and “Polish case law on advertising of pharmaceuticals“.