Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: costs follow the event under Art. 69(1) UPCA

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
strict application principle under art. 76(1) upca for patent amendment	1	1	0%
r. 30 rop requirement for application to amend patent	1	1	0%
novelty and inventive step as grounds for revocation	1	1	0%
costs follow the event under art. 69(1) upca	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
patent is valid and infringed by kodak's lithographic printing plate products	Claimant	1
patent amendment application should be allowed to limit claims and preserve validity	Claimant	1
provisional injunction should be granted for the uk part of the patent pending further proceedings	Claimant	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.