Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: Common general knowledge may be combined with prior art but the incentive requirement still applies

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
inventive step assessment must avoid hindsight; the skilled person needs an incentive to arrive at the claimed subject matter from the prior art	1	1	0%
common general knowledge may be combined with prior art but the incentive requirement still applies	1	1	0%
scope of revocation action is bounded by what the claimant attacks; non-attacked claims are insulated	1	1	0%
partial revocation: patent maintained in amended form (auxiliary request iii) with claims 5 and 6 unchanged per art. 65(3) upca	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
main request (granted claims) should be maintained in full	Respondent	1
auxiliary request i is allowable	Respondent	1
auxiliary request ii is allowable	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.