Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: equivalence assessment in infringement

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
priority: 'same invention' standard under art. 87 epc equated to added matter disclosure standard	1	1	0%
inventive step: material selection from limited class of known materials not inventive	1	1	0%
equivalence assessment in infringement	1	1	0%
partial revocation of patent on counterclaim	1	1	0%
costs split proportionally where each party partially succeeds	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
infringement of ep 2 755 901 b1 and/or ep 3 466 498 by defendants' egg packaging products	Claimant	1
counterclaim for revocation dismissed in remaining parts beyond the partially revoked claims	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.