Legal issues

Cross-cutting view of legal principles, recurring arguments, and the prior art the court relies on.

Most-litigated legal principles

Recurring legal principles across 1 cases with reasoning extracted. Success rate counts patentee-favorable outcomes only.

Principle	Cases	Decided	Patentee success
res judicata effect of national invalidity judgments on upc proceedings governed by national law (art. 24.1(e) upca)	1	1	0%
private prior use rights in de, fr, it, ro are available defences in upc infringement proceedings	1	1	0%
partial revocation of patent may result in dismissal of infringement action where remaining valid claims are not infringed	1	1	0%
costs apportioned proportionally to partial success: 40% claimant, 60% respondent	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

Arguments that the UPC has not accepted, ranked by repeat occurrences across cases.

Argument	Party	Cases
private prior use right (in de, fr, it, ro) precludes infringement finding	Respondent	1

Most-cited prior art

References relied on across substantive merits cases, with the role they typically play.

No prior-art data in the current scope.