APL 25919/2024

—·EP1875683 +2 more: INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND IC DESIGN METHOD

Case details: Status
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Action
Appeal
Category
Main Appeal
Parties: Claimants
Network System Technologies LLC
Reps: Thomas Gniadek (Simmons & Simmons)
Respondents
AUDI AG
Reps: Jan Bösing (Bardehle Pagenberg); Saskia Mertsching (Bardehle Pagenberg); Monika Harten (Bardehle Pagenberg)
Division: Court of Appeal
Judges: Rian Kalden · Presiding judge and judge-rapporteur
Ingeborg Simonsson · Legally qualified judge
Patricia Rombach · Legally qualified judge
Technology: Computing & AI
Language: —
First decided: Sep 17, 2024

Decisions

2024-09-17
Appeal decisionAppeal RoP220.2
The UPC Court of Appeal set aside the Munich Local Division's orders denying security for costs and ordered Network System Technologies LLC to provide security to Audi AG in amounts of EUR 100,000 (two cases) and EUR 300,000 (one case), finding that the lower court applied too high a standard of proof and that NST's failure to disclose its financial situation warranted the order.
Legal issues:Security for costs (Art. 69(4) UPCA, R.158 RoP)Burden of proof for security for costsFinancial disclosure by claimantSpecial purpose patent enforcement entityRelative financial position of parties not a criterion

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