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UPC CFI 1477/2025

—·EP3223320B1

Case details
Status
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Action
Application for costs
Category
Costs Assessments
Parties
Claimants
Reps: Bolko Ehlgen (Linklaters LLP); Julia Schönbohm (Linklaters LLP); Dipl.-Phys. Olaf Isfort (Schneiders & Behrendt)
Respondents
Reps: Dirk Jestaedt (Krieger Mes & Graf von der Groeben Partnerschaft mbB); Bernhard Ganahl (HGF Europe LLP)
Division
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Judges
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Language
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First decided
Apr 9, 2026
Decisions
  • 2026-04-09
    Costs onlyCostsApplication For Costs

    The court partially granted the defendants' application for costs assessment (Kostenfestsetzungsantrag) regarding the appeal proceedings. The claimant was ordered to pay the defendants EUR 50,450.52, covering legal and patent attorney fees of EUR 49,407 plus a proportionate share of travel and accommodation costs of EUR 1,043.52. The defendants' claim that the first-instance cost agreement of EUR 100,000 also applied to the appeal was rejected.

    Legal issues:Costs assessment (Kostenfestsetzung) under Art. 69 UPCA and R. 150, 151, 152 RoPWhether a first-instance cost agreement extends to appeal proceedingsReasonableness and proportionality of legal and patent attorney feesAllocation of travel and accommodation costs between parallel proceedings
Documents
  • Entscheidung%20Kostenfestsetzungsantrag_signed-1.pdf2026-04-09DE
Accepted arguments
What the court agreed with — by party.

  • The first-instance cost agreement does not cover appeal proceedings; only actually incurred and reasonable costs are recoverable for the appeal

    ClaimantLegal basis: Art. 69 UPCA; R. 150, 151, 152 RoP

  • Legal and patent attorney fees of EUR 49,407 are reasonable and within the recoverable ceiling, and were unchallenged by the claimant

    RespondentLegal basis: R. 152.1, 152.2 RoP

  • Travel and accommodation costs of EUR 2,087.04 should be split 50% due to a parallel case being heard concurrently by the Court of Appeal

    ClaimantLegal basis: R. 151 RoP; proportionality principle
Rejected arguments
What the court did not agree with — and why.

  • The first-instance cost agreement of EUR 100,000 per side applies equally to the appeal proceedings, entitling defendants to EUR 101,067.47 total

    RespondentLegal basis: Art. 69 UPCA

  • Travel and accommodation costs amount to EUR 1,067.47 as claimed by the defendants

    RespondentLegal basis: R. 151 RoP