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Legal issues

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

Legal principlelimited validity examination in PI proceedings (best three arguments rule)Clear all

Filtering to principle: limited validity examination in PI proceedings (best three arguments rule)

Clear principle filter
Most-litigated legal principles
Recurring legal principles across 1 cases with reasoning extracted. Success rate counts patentee-favorable outcomes only.
PrincipleCasesDecidedPatentee success
indirect infringement (mittelbare patentverletzung) under art. 26 upca11100%
extended workbench theory for direct infringement requires certainty of completion of patented device11100%
relative vs. absolute prohibition for indirect infringement injunctions11100%
limited validity examination in pi proceedings (best three arguments rule)11100%
security required as condition of provisional measures enforcement11100%
Most-rejected arguments
Arguments that the UPC has not accepted, ranked by repeat occurrences across cases.
ArgumentPartyCases
direct infringement of device claim established because defendant appropriates downstream customer acts (verlängerte werkbank / extended workbench theory)Claimant1
patent ep 3 866 051 is invalid (validity challenge in pi proceedings)Respondent1
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.