= Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court (RoP) =

== Rule 29 ==

=== Lodging of Defence to the Counterclaim for revocation, Reply to the Statement of defence and Rejoinder to the Reply ===

  (a) Within two months of service of a Statement of defence which includes a Counterclaim for revocation, the the proprietor shall lodge a Defence to the Counterclaim for revocation and the claimant may lodge a Reply to the Statement of defence. <<BR>>
  (b) Within one month of service of a Statement of defence which does not include a Counterclaim for revocation, the claimant may lodge a Reply to the Statement of defence. <<BR>>
  (c) Within one month of service of a Reply to the Statement of defence which does not include a Counterclaim for revocation the defendant may lodge a Rejoinder to the Reply to the Statement of defence. <<BR>>
  (d) Within one month of service of the Defence to Counterclaim the defendant may lodge a Reply to the Defence to the Counterclaim together with any Defence to an Application to amend the claims pursuant to Rule [[UPCA_RoP_032|32]], if applicable. <<BR>>
  (e) Within one month of the service of the Reply to the Defence to the counterclaim the claimant, the proprietor may lodge a Rejoinder to the Reply together with any Reply to the Defence to an Application to amend the claims pursuant to Rule [[UPCA_RoP_032|32]], if applicable. The Rejoinder to the Reply to the Statement of defence shall be limited to a response to the matters raised in the Reply to the Statement of defence

== Notes ==

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