UPC CoA 911/2025

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

• 2025-12-24
  Application to leave to appeal a cost decision (RoP221)Public

  Summary: The standing judge of the Court of Appeal (Emmanuel Gougé) dismissed Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy's application for leave to appeal the Paris Central Division's cost decision of 6 November 2025, which had ordered Suinno to pay EUR 350,000 in costs to Microsoft Corporation in connection with the infringement action UPC_CFI_164/2024 (EP 2 671 173). The CoA found the costs award reasonable and proportionate given the EUR 5,000,000 case value and EUR 600,000 ceiling, and that Suinno did not demonstrate that the first-instance court's assessment was wrong.

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  • Leave to appeal a cost decision (R. 221 RoP)
  • Proportionality and reasonableness of costs award
  • Scale of ceilings for recoverable costs
  • Assessment of value of infringement action (R. 370.6 RoP)
• 2025-11-24
  Application RoP 223Public

  Summary: Court of Appeal dismissed Suinno's application for suspensive effect of its appeal (related to costs decisions made against Suinno by the Paris Central Division following a default decision dismissing Suinno's infringement action against Microsoft). The CoA held that Suinno had not demonstrated exceptional circumstances nor that the impugned costs decisions were manifestly erroneous.

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  • Suspensive effect of appeal on costs decisions (R.223 RoP)
  • Manifest error standard
  • Enforcement of costs decisions pending appeal