diff --git a/json/upickle/src/main/scala/sttp/client4/upicklejson/SttpUpickleApi.scala b/json/upickle/src/main/scala/sttp/client4/upicklejson/SttpUpickleApi.scala
index e44de47df0..a7b1a8ce00 100644
--- a/json/upickle/src/main/scala/sttp/client4/upicklejson/SttpUpickleApi.scala
+++ b/json/upickle/src/main/scala/sttp/client4/upicklejson/SttpUpickleApi.scala
@@ -52,5 +52,3 @@ trait SttpUpickleApi {
     }
   }
 }
-
-object SttpUpickleApi extends SttpUpickleApi
diff --git a/json/upickle/src/test/scala/sttp/client4/upicklejson/BackendStubUpickleTests.scala b/json/upickle/src/test/scala/sttp/client4/upicklejson/BackendStubUpickleTests.scala
index 2a9509892c..227861cf18 100644
--- a/json/upickle/src/test/scala/sttp/client4/upicklejson/BackendStubUpickleTests.scala
+++ b/json/upickle/src/test/scala/sttp/client4/upicklejson/BackendStubUpickleTests.scala
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ object Person {
 
 class BackendStubUpickleTests extends AnyFlatSpec with Matchers with ScalaFutures {
 
-
   it should "deserialize to json using a string stub" in {
     val backend = SyncBackendStub.whenAnyRequest.thenRespond("""{"name": "John"}""")
     val r = basicRequest.get(Uri("http://example.org")).response(asJson[Person]).send(backend)
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ class BackendStubUpickleTests extends AnyFlatSpec with Matchers with ScalaFuture
     )
 
     val backend = SyncBackendStub.whenAnyRequest.thenRespond(json)
-    val r = basicRequest.get(Uri("http://example.org")).body(json).response(asJson[Person]).send(backend)
+    val r = basicRequest.get(Uri("http://example.org")).body(json).send(backend)
 
     r.is200 should be(true)
     r.body should be(json)