Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: novelty and inventive step under art. 54 and 56 epc

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
intermediate generalisation as inadmissible extension under art. 123(2) and (3) epc	1	1	0%
prior art must be in same technical field or one skilled person would consult for the problem posed	1	1	0%
novelty and inventive step under art. 54 and 56 epc	1	1	0%
auxiliary requests admissible even if numerous where their core is small	1	1	0%
patent partially revoked and maintained in amended form (auxiliary requests 1 and 2)	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
patent as granted is valid and infringed by xiaomi's wireless charging products	Claimant	1
number of auxiliary requests is unduly burdensome on defendants	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.