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1. UPC Local Division: Extension of periods in urgent proceedings

   The applicant requests that the period for filing a reply to the objection be extended and that the start of period for filing the reply be postponed until the finalization of the secrecy protection proceedings under R 262A RoP. Such postponement of the start of the period is incompatible with the...

2. UPC Court of Appeal: Costs appeal, suspensive effect

   The Munich local division has ruled that the defendant in a proceeding about provisional measures has to bear the proceeding costs after it initially left a pre-litigation deadline for submitting a cease-and-desist undertaking unused, but then submitted a cease-and-desist undertaking after the application...

3. UPC Court of Appeal: Suspensive effect

   The claimant and appellant filed an application for preserving evidence and an application for inspection against the defendant. The Local Division of Milan granted both applications. The orders granting them were then executed at the defendant's premises and the Court’s experts submitted their reports...