When is the deadline for reply to the defence to revocation (with any defence to the application to amend and any defence to the counterclaim for infringement)?

Claimant uses 2 months to lodge a Reply to the Defence to revocation, measured against service of the Defence to revocation. Any applicable Defence to amendment or infringement counterclaim accompanies the Reply. Conditional duties in those branches remain separate. The ordinary source period remains a conditional fixed boundary, not a variable period merely because this page withholds a calculation. This guide supplies no calculated final date.

Responsible actor. claimant. optional reply.

service of the Defence to revocation

The standalone revocation Defence has been served

Any applicable Defence to amendment or infringement counterclaim accompanies the Reply. Conditional duties in those branches remain separate.

This UPC Revocation reply to defence guide preserves the 2-months source period and its optional step nature. Any applicable Defence to amendment or infringement counterclaim accompanies the Reply. Conditional duties in those branches remain separate. The actual event, applicable branch, court location and complete final-day conditions require confirmation. It supplies no computed date or paid calculation.

1. lodge a Reply to the Defence to revocation
2. service of the Defence to revocation
3. For a procedural step, Rule 300 excludes the event day and uses calendar days, named-week anniversary or calendar-month/year anniversary with missing-day clamping. Judicial vacations do not suspend the period.
4. Rule 301 extends a procedural expiry falling on a weekend or official holiday of the court location to its next working day. Electronic non-receipt is a separate material branch.

For a procedural step, Rule 300 excludes the event day and uses calendar days, named-week anniversary or calendar-month/year anniversary with missing-day clamping. Judicial vacations do not suspend the period.

Rule 301 extends a procedural expiry falling on a weekend or official holiday of the court location to its next working day. Electronic non-receipt is a separate material branch.

This UPC Revocation reply to defence guide preserves the 2-months source period and its optional step nature. Any applicable Defence to amendment or infringement counterclaim accompanies the Reply. Conditional duties in those branches remain separate. The actual event, applicable branch, court location and complete final-day conditions require confirmation. It supplies no computed date or paid calculation.

The identified actor has the document or event described by this source provision. service of the Defence to revocation must be established. The standalone revocation Defence has been served. No final date is supplied without the applicable court location and complete facts.

A different order, actual service event or procedural track applies. Any applicable Defence to amendment or infringement counterclaim accompanies the Reply. Conditional duties in those branches remain separate. Check that branch separately. Do not reuse another procedure's event or period.

A nominal period falls on a closed day or depends on another actual event. Rule 301 extends a procedural expiry falling on a weekend or official holiday of the court location to its next working day. Electronic non-receipt is a separate material branch. Preserve the stated source period. This guide does not infer a final case date.

Actual operative event

service of the Defence to revocation

Applicable procedural branch

The standalone revocation Defence has been served Any applicable Defence to amendment or infringement counterclaim accompanies the Reply. Conditional duties in those branches remain separate.

Host-state calendar and complete act

Rule 301 extends a procedural expiry falling on a weekend or official holiday of the court location to its next working day. Electronic non-receipt is a separate material branch.

• This UPC Revocation reply to defence guide preserves the 2-months source period and its optional step nature. Any applicable Defence to amendment or infringement counterclaim accompanies the Reply. Conditional duties in those branches remain separate. The actual event, applicable branch, court location and complete final-day conditions require confirmation. It supplies no computed date or paid calculation.
• Defendant in a revocation action must distinguish lodge a Preliminary objection under Rule 48, measured against service of the Statement for revocation. Its stated period is 1 months and its branch is optional objection right. That event does not replace service of the Defence to revocation for lodge a Reply to the Defence to revocation. Defendant must distinguish lodge a Defence to revocation under Rule 49.1, measured against service of the Statement for revocation. Its stated period is 2 months and its branch is required defence. That event does not replace service of the Defence to revocation for lodge a Reply to the Defence to revocation. Defendant patent proprietor must distinguish include an Application to amend the patent in the Defence to revocation under Rule 49.2(a), measured against service of the Statement for revocation. Its stated period is 2 months and its branch is optional amendment application. That event does not replace service of the Defence to revocation for lodge a Reply to the Defence to revocation.

• The standalone revocation Defence has been served
• Retain the actual operative event and the exact served document, notification, hearing or decision as applicable
• Identify the actual division or Court of Appeal and its host-state official holidays
• Check any order, party agreement, electronic non-receipt or paired-event branch
• lodge a Reply to the Defence to revocation
• optional step. Any applicable Defence to amendment or infringement counterclaim accompanies the Reply. Conditional duties in those branches remain separate.