Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court

Rule 1

The Court shall conduct proceedings in accordance with the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (“the Agreement”), the Statute of the Unified Patent Court (“the Statute”) and these Rules. In the event of a conflict between the provisions of the Agreement and/or the Statute on the one hand and of the Rules on the other hand, the provisions of the Agreement and/or the Statute shall prevail.
Where these Rules provide for the Court to perform any act other than an act exclusively reserved for a panel of the Court, the President of the Court of First Instance or the President of the Court of Appeal, that act may be performed by
- (a) the presiding judge or the judge-rapporteur of the panel to which the action has been assigned,
  (b) a single legally qualified judge where the action has been assigned to a single judge,
  (c) the standing judge designated pursuant to Rule 345.

Relation with Agreement: Article 8(7)

Relation with draft Statute: Article 19

Status: 15th draft of 31st May 2013