UPC CFI LD Munich, 10 July 2024: Lodging of redacted "unredacted version"of Reply inadmissible

Lodging written pleadings and confidentiality club. 

Inadmissible lodging of a redacted “unredacted version” of the Reply (Rule 9(2) RoP, Rule 29 RoP, Rule 262A RoP). An exception be made because the problem is being addressed by the Unified Patent Court for the first time. 

Time limit for filing a rejoinder in the infringement action does not start to run until the defendants have been served with a fully unredacted Reply to the Statement of defence (Rule 29(c) RoP). 

Time limits for the counterclaim and the (alternative) amendment of the patent must be considered separately and have started running. Extension denied. 

IPPT20240710, UPC CFI, LD Munich, Panasonic v Orope