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UPC Court of Appeal: Member State accessibility establishes jurisdiction under Brussels I Recast; server location and targeting irrelevant (Dish and Sling v AYLO)

Published on: 18 November 2024

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Dish and Sling v AYLO , Case No.UPC-CoA-188/2024

The CoA, in its ruling, upheld the order issued by the Court of First Instance, Local Division Mannheim. In the substantive proceedings, Dish and Sling commenced infringement proceedings against AYLO. The patent at issue concerned a method for presenting rate‑adaptive streams using a media player. AYLO was said to have indirectly infringed the patent in numerous UPC Member States, including Germany, by offering and supplying both the video files made available for streaming and the media players through which those videos are streamed. Invoking Rule 19.1(a) of the UPC Rules of Procedure, AYLO filed a preliminary objection asking that the infringement action be dismissed for lack of UPC jurisdiction. After that objection was rejected, AYLO brought an appeal against the order of the Local Division Mannheim. It argued that the UPC lacked international jurisdiction on the basis of Article 7(2), in conjunction with Article 71b(1), of Regulation (EU) 1215/2012, Brussels I (recast)...

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