Article 1 Use of terms

‘Agreement’ means the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court of 19 February 2013;

‘Statute’ means the Statute of the Unified Patent Court as set out in Annex I of the Agreement;

‘State Party’ means a State party to this Protocol;

‘Contracting Member State’ means a State party to the Agreement;

‘Court’ means the Unified Patent Court created by the Agreement;

‘Court of Appeal’ means the Court of Appeal of the Court;

‘The official activities of the Court’ means the activities that are necessary for the fulfilment by the Court of the purposes and functions it has been entrusted with in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement;

‘Premises of the Court’ means land and buildings made available to the Court by the Contracting Member State in accordance with Article 37 of the Agreement and used for the official activities of the Court;

‘Judge’ means a Judge of the Court.

‘Registrar’ means the Registrar and the Deputy-Registrar of the Court.

‘Staff’ means all personnel employed by the Court as officials and other servants of the Court except the Judges and the Registrar.

‘Family’ means, with respect to any person, the spouse and dependent members of the immediate family of such person forming part of such person's household, as recognised by the hosting Contracting Member State;

‘Representatives of the parties’ means the lawyers, European patent attorneys or patent attorneys authorised to practice or assist before the Court under Article 48 of the Agreement.