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Legal issues

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

Legal principleAmended unitary patent takes effect from original European patent grant dateClear all

Filtering to principle: Amended unitary patent takes effect from original European patent grant date

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Most-litigated legal principles
Recurring legal principles across 1 cases with reasoning extracted. Success rate counts patentee-favorable outcomes only.
PrincipleCasesDecidedPatentee success
amended unitary patent takes effect from original european patent grant date11100%
national parts of a european patent in non-upca states assessed against the patent as originally granted11100%
non-publicly-accessible documents do not constitute common general knowledge11100%
the skilled person is an executor, not a creative innovator11100%
unconditional amendment of unitary patent: risk of annulment by non-upc national courts assessed on original (unamended) claims11100%
Most-rejected arguments
Arguments that the UPC has not accepted, ranked by repeat occurrences across cases.
ArgumentPartyCases
counterclaim for nullity of claims 1 and 6 of the amended patent and subsidiary requestsRespondent1
infringement of the swiss national part of the patent should also be foundClaimant1
decision should be disseminated to mul-t-lock's customersClaimant1
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.