= Rules of procedure of the Unified Patent Court =

== Rule 2 ==

=== Supplementary protection certificate ===

 1. Subject to paragraph 2, in these Rules the expression “patent” and “proprietor” shall whenever appropriate include, respectively, a supplementary protection certificate as defined in [[UPCA_002|Article 2(h)]] of the Agreement and granted in respect of the patent and the proprietor of such certificate. 

 2. References in these Rules to the language in which the patent was granted shall mean that language and not the language in which a supplementary protection certificate in respect of the patent was granted. 

== Notes ==

'''Status:''' [[UPCA_RoP_15th_Draft|15th draft of 31st May 2013]]