UPC CFI 2265/2025
EP3732827 Einheitspatent · METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAKING FUNCTIONAL DEVICES AVAILALBLE TO PARTICIPANTS OF MEETINGS
- Verfahrensdetails
- Status—VerfahrensartVerfahrensantragKategorieVerfahrensführungsanordnungen
- Parteien
- Kläger
- Yealink (Xiamen) Network Technology Co. Ltd.Unternehmen
- Yealink (Europe) Network Technology B.V.Unternehmen
Vertreter- Ruud van der Velden-Hogan Lovells International LLP
- Stefan Dusault-Hogan Lovells International LLP
- Floris Patijn-Hogan Lovells International LLP
- Django Wagenaer-Hogan Lovells International LLP
Beklagte- Barco N.V.Unternehmen
Vertreter- Christian Dekoninck-Taylor Wessing
- Wim Maas-Taylor Wessing
- Laura Coucke-Taylor Wessing
- Adam Lybaert-Taylor Wessing
- Division
- Brussels LD
- Technologie
- Electrical engineeringDigital communication
- Sprache
- —
- Erste Entscheidung
- 7. Mai 2026
- EPA-Einspruch
- Yealink (Xiamen) Network Technology Co., Ltd.Zulässig2025-02-10
- Chen, WeiHaoZulässig2025-03-11
- Yilin, JinZulässig2025-03-12
- Kindermann GmbHZulässig2025-03-12
| Median Tage bis zur ersten Entscheidung | |
|---|---|
| Gesamt-UPC | 124 |
| Brussels LD | Gesperrt |
| Richter Samuel Granata | Gesperrt |
| Richter Petri Rinkinen | Gesperrt |
| Richter Mélanie Bessaud | Gesperrt |
| Richter Steven Kitchen | Gesperrt |
Vor dem UPC: Yealink (Xiamen) Network Technology Co. Ltd. (9 Verfahren)·Barco N.V. (9 Verfahren)
Dieser Streit umfasst 7 weitere Verfahren
UPC CoA 145/2026·UPC CoA 84/2026·UPC CFI 185/2026·UPC CFI 806/2025·UPC CoA 317/2025 und 2 weitere
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Weitere Verfahren: Brussels LD·2025
- 2026-05-07
Zusammenfassung: The Judge-Rapporteur issued a cost decision (R. 150 RoP) following concluded preliminary injunction proceedings (UPC_CFI_582/2024 and UPC_CoA_317/2025 / UPC_CoA_376/2025), in which BARCO's PI requests had been dismissed for lack of urgency. BARCO was ordered to pay YEALINK a cost award covering legal representation (at a ceiling of €112,000 for first instance and €66,000 for appeal, reduced by BARCO's own costs for successfully defending the competence challenges) plus travel and hotel costs of €3,769.84; interpretation costs claimed by YEALINK were dismissed as non-recoverable under R. 109.5 RoP.
Rechtsfragen anzeigen (8)
- Cost allocation under R. 150 RoP following dismissed preliminary injunction proceedings
- Definition of 'successful party' versus 'partly successful party' under Art. 69.1 UPCA
- Whether BARCO's right to seek cost compensation for dismissed competence challenges was time-barred
- Waiver of rights requires explicit statement — prior admission of successful party status does not waive cost compensation rights
- Recoverability of simultaneous interpretation costs under R. 109.4 / R. 109.5 RoP
- Application and potential reduction of recoverable costs ceiling for PI appeal proceedings under Art. 69(2) UPCA
- Double-counting / 'double-up' argument: ceiling cannot be reduced for partial success when BARCO also claims set-off costs against that ceiling
- Weight of statements made by counsel at oral hearings for cost assessment purposes
- R.150_Signed_redacted.pdf2026-05-07EN
YEALINK is the successful party in the PI proceedings (PI requests dismissed for lack of urgency), entitling it to cost recovery under Art. 69.1 UPCA / R. 150 RoP
KlägerRechtsgrundlage: Art. 69.1 UPCA; R. 150 RoPThe ceiling for first instance PI proceedings is €112,000, as accepted by BARCO before the LD Brussels and confirmed by the Court of Appeal
KlägerRechtsgrundlage: Art. 1(4) Administrative Committee Ceilings Decision; R. 152 RoPBARCO's request for cost compensation for successfully defending YEALINK's competence challenges was not time-barred, because the R. 151 RoP deadline runs from the merits decision (not yet issued), given that merits proceedings are pending
BeklagterRechtsgrundlage: R. 150.1, R. 151 RoP; Art. 41(3) UPCABARCO is entitled to claim costs for defending dismissed competence challenges as a defence/set-off in the cost proceedings, without needing to file a separate application
BeklagterRechtsgrundlage: R. 150, R. 151 RoP; Art. 41(3) UPCA; RoP Preamble 4Travel and hotel costs are recoverable as claimed since BARCO put forward no substantive argument to exclude them
KlägerRechtsgrundlage: R. 150 RoP
Simultaneous interpretation costs incurred by YEALINK are recoverable as costs of the proceedings
KlägerRechtsgrundlage: R. 109.4, R. 109.5 RoP — costs borne solely by the engaging partyThe ceiling should be set at €112,000 for both instances combined (i.e., no separate ceiling for the appeal)
BeklagterRechtsgrundlage: Art. 69(2) UPCA; Administrative Committee Ceilings DecisionYEALINK's statement at the Court of Appeal oral hearing that BARCO's infringement analysis 'likely took less than an hour' should reduce the reasonableness of YEALINK's claimed representation costs
BeklagterRechtsgrundlage: Art. 69.1 UPCA — reasonable and proportionate costsBARCO's admission that YEALINK was the 'successful party' in first instance R. 353 RoP proceedings constituted a waiver of its right to seek cost compensation for the dismissed competence challenge
KlägerRechtsgrundlage: General principle: waiver requires explicit statementThe ceiling for PI appeal proceedings should be reduced on account of YEALINK's partial success (dismissed competence cross-appeal), applying Art. 1(4) Ceilings Decision proportionately
BeklagterRechtsgrundlage: R. 152.2 RoP; Art. 1(4) Ceilings Decision — court held this would create a 'double-up' problem given BARCO's own set-off claim