Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court (RoP)

Rule 300

Calculation of periods

Any period of time prescribed by the Agreement, the Statute, these Rules or any order of the Court for the taking of any procedural step shall be laid down in terms of full days, weeks, months or years and shall be reckoned as follows:

• (a) computation shall start on the day following the day on which the relevant event occurred;
  (b) when a period is expressed as one year or a certain number of years, it shall expire in the relevant subsequent year in the month having the same name and on the day having the same number as the month and the day on which the said event occurred. If the relevant subsequent month has no day with the same number, the period shall expire on the last day of that month;
  (c) when a period is expressed as one month or a certain number of months, it shall expire in the relevant subsequent month on the day which has the same number as the day on which the said event occurred. If the relevant subsequent month has no day with the same number, the period shall expire on the last day of that month;
  (d) when a period is expressed as one week or a certain number of weeks, it shall expire in the relevant subsequent week on the day having the same name as the day on which the said event occurred;
  (e) day shall mean a calendar day unless expressed as a working day
  (f) calendar days shall include official holidays of the Contracting Member State in which the division concerned or the Court of Appeal is located, Sundays and Saturdays;
  (g) working days shall not include official holidays of the contracting Member State in which the division concerned or the Court of Appeal is located, Sundays and Saturdays.
  (h) periods shall not be suspended during the judicial vacations.

Notes

[EPC Rule 131]

Status: 15th draft of 31st May 2013