Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court (RoP)

Rule 14

Without prejudice to Article 49(3)(4) and (6) of the Agreement and subject to Rule 14.2 the Statement of claim shall be drawn up
- (a) in the official language or one of the official languages designated as language(s) of proceedings pursuant to Article 49(1) of the Agreement or
  (b) in one of the languages designated as language(s) of proceedings pursuant to Article 49(2) of the Agreement.
Where a Contracting Member State hosting a local division or Contracting Member State sharing a regional division has/have designated two or more languages of proceedings pursuant to Article 49(1) and/or Article 49(2) of the Agreement the Statement of claim shall be drawn up in the language in which the defendant normally conducts its business in its Contracting Member State.
Subject to Article 49(5) and Rules Rule 321 to Rule 323 the language of the Statement of claim shall be the language of proceedings and without prejudice to Rule Rule 16.5 the Registry shall return any pleading lodged in a language other than the language of the proceedings.

Relation with Agreement:[[UPCA_049|Article 49]]

Status: 15th draft of 31st May 2013