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Legal issues

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

Legal principletwelve conditional auxiliary requests treated as upper limit of reasonable numberClear all

Filtering to principle: twelve conditional auxiliary requests treated as upper limit of reasonable number

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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
added matter (art. 123(2) epc) as ground for revocation under art. 138(1)(c) epc110%
art. 65(3) upca applies only to granted patent; no obligation to assess partial allowability of amendment application110%
amendment claim set must be clear, precise, and reasonable in number (r. 50.2 rop)110%
twelve conditional auxiliary requests treated as upper limit of reasonable number110%
claim interpretation is a question of law for the court, performable at any stage110%
Most-rejected arguments
Arguments that the UPC has not accepted, ranked by repeat occurrences across cases.
ArgumentPartyCases
auxiliary requests (2)a through (2)d to amend the patent to overcome added matter objectionRespondent1
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.