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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

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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.