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Legal issues

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

Legal principlenovelty assessment requires direct and unambiguous disclosure of all claim features in prior artClear all

Filtering to principle: novelty assessment requires direct and unambiguous disclosure of all claim features in prior art

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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
novelty assessment requires direct and unambiguous disclosure of all claim features in prior art110%
front-loaded proceedings require parties to set out full case as early as possible110%
discretion to stay proceedings where related national action pending110%
international jurisdiction examined of own motion where required by union law110%
inventive step assessed using problem-solution approach110%
Most-rejected arguments
Arguments that the UPC has not accepted, ranked by repeat occurrences across cases.
ArgumentPartyCases
proceedings should be stayed pending related national revocation actionRespondent1
auxiliary requests 2–8 render the claimed subject-matter patentableRespondent1
Most-cited prior art
References relied on across substantive merits cases, with the role they typically play.
ReferencePredominant roleCases
GöranssonNovelty-destroying1
D46Obviousness combination1