UPC CFI 724/2025

At the UPC: Microsoft Group (34 cases)·Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy (29 cases)

• 2025-11-06
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  Summary: Ruling on Microsoft's Rule 151 RoP application for a cost decision arising out of the infringement action UPC_CFI_164/2024 (dismissed against Suinno by a Court of Appeal default judgment) and the related appeal proceedings, the Court set the value of the infringement action at EUR 5,000,000.00, applied the corresponding cost ceiling, and fixed Microsoft's recoverable representation costs at EUR 350,000.00. Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy was ordered to pay this amount within three weeks; the respondent's requests to reject the application or defer the decision were rejected.

  Show the legal issues (6)

  • Determination of recoverable costs under Rule 151 RoP
  • Reasonableness and proportionality of representation costs (Rule 152 RoP)
  • Value of the proceedings for the applicable cost ceiling (Rule 22 RoP, Administrative Committee scale of 23 April 2023)
  • Binding effect of a Court of Appeal default judgment on liability for costs
  • Autonomous, independent existence of a pending revocation counterclaim relative to the concluded infringement action
  • Exclusion of costs relating to an EPO file-inspection proceeding from recoverable costs