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Legal issues

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

Legal principleAn invention contrary to accepted laws of physics lacks industrial application (Art. 57 EPC)Clear all

Filtering to principle: An invention contrary to accepted laws of physics lacks industrial application (Art. 57 EPC)

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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
an invention contrary to accepted laws of physics lacks industrial application (art. 57 epc)11100%
drawings serve as explanatory aids for claim interpretation but cannot override unambiguous description11100%
multiple auxiliary requests must be addressed in the order indicated by the applicant absent contrary instructions11100%
cost apportionment reflects the dynamic where revocation fails only because proprietor amends during proceedings11100%
Most-rejected arguments
Arguments that the UPC has not accepted, ranked by repeat occurrences across cases.
ArgumentPartyCases
ep 3 655 346 b1 as granted is invalid for lack of industrial applicationClaimant1
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.