Summary
Presentation given on 29 November 2019 on the recovery of lawyers’ fees in patent cases after the CJEU’s United Video Properties v Telenet judgment (C-57/15). It sets out the background of the dispute and the patent holder’s licensing and litigation strategy, the Belgian rules capping the recoverable procedural indemnity, the question whether these caps breach Article 14 of the Enforcement Directive, the answer of the Court of Justice and the options left to winning parties since then.