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1 ORDER of the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court issued on 1 June 2026 concerning security for costs (R. 158 RoP) HEADNOTES: The qualification of a party as an SME or the submission of a declaration purporting to establish a party’s SME status pursuant to R. 370.8 RoP is not, in itself, sufficient to dispense with the obligation for said party to provide a security for costs in accordance with R. 158 RoP, if the requirements for the application of that rule are met. The amount of the security for costs should be set starting from the ceiling of Annex A (“scale of ceilings for recoverable costs”) to the Decision of the Administrative Committee of 24 April 2023, weighed according to all the relevant circumstances of the case presented by the parties. Where appropriate, the Court ma ...