Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court (RoP)

Rule 9

Powers of the Court

1. The Court may, at any stage of the proceedings, of its own motion or on reasoned request by a party, order a party to take any step, answer any question or provide any clarification or evidence, within time periods to be specified.
2. The Court may disregard any step, fact, evidence or argument which a party has not submitted in due time.
3. Subject to paragraph 4, on a reasoned request by a party, the Court may:

   • (a) extend, even retrospectively, a time period referred to in these Rules or imposed by the Court; and
     (b) shorten any such time period.

4. The Court shall not extend or shorten the time periods referred to in [[UPCA_RoP_198|Rule 198.1] and [[UPCA_RoP_224|Rule 224.1].

Notes

Status: 15th draft of 31st May 2013