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
added matter: subject matter of a patent extending beyond the content of the original parent application renders claims invalid (art. 76(1) epc)	1	1	0%
added matter assessed against all text, claims, passages and drawings of the parent application individually and in overall context	1	1	0%
amendment application not addressing the operative revocation ground (added matter) cannot save the patent	1	1	0%
if the claims relied on in infringement are revoked, the infringement action necessarily fails	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
applications to amend the patent (auxiliary requests) should cure the added-matter defect	Respondent	1
claims 1 and 11 of ep 3 972 309 are infringed by asus devices	Claimant	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.