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Legal issues

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

Legal principleRevocation of patent defeats infringement action regardless of infringement meritsClear all

Filtering to principle: Revocation of patent defeats infringement action regardless of infringement merits

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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
all claim amendments evaluated for inventive step; no 'safe harbour' in amendment merely by adding features already disclosed in prior art110%
generalisation of a prior-art concept from one technical sub-domain to a related one does not involve an inventive step110%
revocation of patent defeats infringement action regardless of infringement merits110%
Most-rejected arguments
Arguments that the UPC has not accepted, ranked by repeat occurrences across cases.
ArgumentPartyCases
unconditionally amended main request and auxiliary requests 1–12 should be maintainedClaimant1
hlcc17 only discloses n-gram vectors applied to url filepaths, not domain names generallyClaimant1
Most-cited prior art
References relied on across substantive merits cases, with the role they typically play.
ReferencePredominant roleCases
HLCC17Obviousness combination1