APL 36389/2024

—·EP1944067: Method and system for detecting an offside situation

Case details: Status
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Action
Appeal
Category
Main Appeal
Parties: Claimants
Ballinno B.V.
Reps: Rien Broekstra (Vossius & Brinkhof)
Respondents
Kinexon Sports & Media GmbH
Union des Associations Européennes de Football (UEFA)
Kinexon GmbH
Reps: Tilman Müller-Stoy (Bardehle Pagenberg)
Division: Court of Appeal
Judges: Rian Kalden · Presiding judge and legally qualified judge
Ingeborg Simonsson · Legally qualified judge and judge-rapporteur
Patricia Rombach · Legally qualified judge
Guillaume Faget · Technically qualified judge
Elisabetta Papa · Technically qualified judge
Language: —
First decided: Jun 26, 2025

Decisions

2025-06-26
DismissedAppeal decisionAppeal RoP220.1
Court of Appeal (26 June 2025) rejected Ballinno's appeal against (1) the security for costs order of EUR 56,000, and (2) the CFI's cost order. As Ballinno had withdrawn its requests for provisional measures on appeal, the action was declared devoid of purpose and disposed of under R. 360 RoP. Ballinno was ordered to bear the Kinexon companies' and UEFA's legal costs for the appeal proceedings. Value of dispute set at EUR 100,000.
Legal issues:Security for costs (R. 158 RoP)Disposal of devoid action (R. 360 RoP)Costs on appealWithdrawal of provisional measures requests

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