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DECISION of the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court issued on 13 July 2026 concerning EP 3 476 616 (DE and UK designations) HEADNOTES 1. A claimant is required to indicate the extent to which revocation of the patent is requested and is required to sufficiently substantiate this request for each of the claims covered by its request (see R. 25.1(a)-(d) RoP). 2. It follows from R. 29A(c) RoP that where the patentee requests that claimant’s request for revocation of several or all claims of the patent is rejected, he is required (whether or not as a subsidiary defence) to identify in a sufficiently substantiated manner which dependent claims it considers to be valid should the independent claim be held invalid (see R. 29A(a)-(c) RoP). 3. If the patentee wishes to rely on a combination ...