UPC CFI LD Hamburg, 25 July 2024: No convincing reasons for time limit extensions

No convincing reasons for time limit extensions (Rule 9.3(a) RoP)(Rule 262A RoP). 

Necessary coordination with suppliers based outside Europe is not a convincing reason for an exceptional extension of the time. 

Neither that  exchange of technical information is subject to very restrictive confidentiality obligations imposed on the defendants 3) and 4). this does not justify the requested extension. 

The RoP do provide especially for that purpose a possibility for the protection of confidential information in R. 262A RoP, which can be used parallel with the lodging of the statement of defence. 

Counterclaim for revocation concerns technical questions that are most likely independent of any possible confidentiality obligations.

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