To ensure that users can proceed as planned, we, at the Court and together with our providers, are giving maximum attention to this capacity issue, working towards its improvement. This pressure has caused a slowing down of its functionalities, sometimes even impeding the filing of opt-outs. The resulting acceleration of the pace of opt-outs being filed during these last weeks means that the CMS is now under considerable pressure. Until now, there has been no official communication from the UPC on the issue, but the message published today makes clear that many users have problems to file opt-outs, and the UPC is struggling to solve this:Īs you are aware, we are getting close to the end of the sunrise period. Others complained the CMS was either terribly slow or not responsive at all and they hadn’t been able to file a single opt-out in a week, even if trying at night.

At present, the CMS does not seem to work at all….ĭoes anyone know the bank account to which court fess have to be sent? I need to file a protective writ on June 1, 2023.’ I was able to file one opt-out request today, after trying many times last Thursday and last Friday. The capacity of the system obviously is by far not large enough. That things don’t go smoothly became clear, among others, in a comment below this Kluwer Patent Blog post, which read: Around 25 April, the number was just over 30,000 ( source ) and, as the court writes, now that the opening date is getting closer, ever more requests are being filed.

How many opt-out requests have so far been filed is not clear. Proprietors who don’t want their patents to fall under the UPC need to opt out from its jurisdiction before the court goes live on 1 June 2023, in the so-called sunrise period, which started on 1 March 2023. Less than three weeks before the planned opening of the Unified Patent Court, a message has been published on its website as a reaction to problems with the content management system, which apparently isn’t able to cope with the growing inflow of opt-outs.

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