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.
Most-rejected arguments
Arguments that the UPC has not accepted, ranked by repeat occurrences across cases.
| Argument | Party | Cases |
|---|---|---|
| patent ep 3 466 498 is invalid (counterclaim for revocation) — novelty and inventive step | Respondent | 1 |
| application for seizure of goods should be maintained in full | Claimant | 1 |
| infringement of ep 2 755 901 b1 and/or ep 3 466 498 by defendants' egg packaging products | Claimant | 1 |
| counterclaim for revocation dismissed in remaining parts beyond the partially revoked claims | Respondent | 1 |
| accused 'tray2go' product infringes the patent under the doctrine of equivalents via variant a (gradual transgression of second stiffening portion) | Claimant | 1 |
| physical product obtained from a commercial brochure can establish the brochure's prior-art disclosure | Respondent | 1 |
| claims should be construed based on english translation rather than the german-language authentic text | Claimant | 1 |
| special circumstances under r. 211.5 rop can be established by the allegedly long duration of obtaining security | Claimant | 1 |
| publication of the judgment should be ordered | Claimant | 1 |
| publication of the judgment in trade press should be ordered | Claimant | 1 |
| patent is invalid due to added matter (überschreitung der ursprungsoffenbarung) | Respondent | 1 |
| defendants' streaming services literally or equivalently infringe ep 2 479 680 | Claimant | 1 |
| full revocation of ep 2 479 680 including all auxiliary requests | Respondent | 1 |
| late disclosure of video file encoding information should be ordered under r. 191 rop | Claimant | 1 |
| alpina coffee's milk foam device infringes ep 3398487 claim 2 | Claimant | 1 |
| tesla vehicles infringe ep 1612910 (on-board power supply monitor and power control system) | 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.