Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: FRAND defence in SEP infringement actions

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
frand defence in sep infringement actions	1	1	100%
huawei v. zte framework (cjeu) for sep injunctions	1	1	100%
exhaustion of patent rights	1	1	100%
pool license as a permissible frand licensing pathway	1	1	100%
implementer must make concrete counter-offer and provide security to raise frand defence	1	1	100%
front-loaded procedure / withdrawal from opt-out via cms workflow	1	1	100%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
huawei's claims are barred by ieee bylaws / letter of assurance commitments (prohibition on suit)	Respondent	1
exhaustion defence applies to all accused product variants	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.