UPC_CFI_515/2023

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING TRANSACTIONS

VerletzungHauptverletzungsklageMunich LDInfringementCase Closed

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Zusammenfassung in einfacher Sprache

Volkswagen, Audi, Texas Instruments Incorporated and Texas Instruments Deutschland applied for security for costs of EUR 200,000 against Network System Technologies LLC (NST), a US-based patent assertion entity asserting EP 1 552 399 before the Munich Local Division. The court dismissed all three applications, holding that the defendants had provided only general allegations about enforcement difficulties with no concrete evidence of insolvency risk, and that ordering security based on US domicile alone would amount to unlawful discrimination.

Angenommene Argumente

Was das Gericht akzeptiert hat — nach Partei.

applications for security for costs against NST should be dismissed because defendants provided no concrete evidence of enforcement difficulties against a US entity
KlägerRechtsgrundlage: Art. 69(4) UPCA; R. 158 RoP
Hinweis: The Munich LD held that mere domicile in a non-EU country cannot be a basis for security for costs (would constitute nationality-based discrimination), and defendants provided no evidence of actual insolvency risk or enforcement difficulties.
US courts routinely recognise and enforce foreign judgments including UPC decisions
KlägerRechtsgrundlage: R. 158 RoP
Hinweis: The court found no demonstrated difficulty with enforcing a cost order in the US against NST.

Zurückgewiesene Argumente

Was das Gericht nicht akzeptiert hat — und warum.

NST as a US-based NPE should be ordered to provide EUR 200,000 security for costs
BeklagterRechtsgrundlage: Art. 69(4) UPCA; R. 158 RoP; Art. 47 EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Begründung: Defendants relied only on general allegations without concrete evidence of insolvency risk or enforcement difficulties; mere non-EU domicile cannot justify security orders as it would constitute unlawful a priori discrimination based on nationality of registered office.

Zentrale Rechtsgrundsätze

In der Begründung herangezogene Doktrinen und Regeln.

security for costs under R. 158 RoP requires concrete evidence of claimant's financial incapacity or enforcement difficulties, not mere US domicile ordering security based solely on non-EU domicile constitutes unlawful discrimination under Art. 47 EU Charter UPC decisions are generally enforceable in the US under comity principles right to effective remedy under Art. 47 EU Charter constrains security-for-costs orders intangible assets (patents) may be available to satisfy a cost order against a patent-holding entity

Weitere Fälle zu diesem Grundsatz ansehen.