Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: Indirect infringement of claim 1 and direct infringement of claim 16 assessed separately

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
indirect infringement of claim 1 and direct infringement of claim 16 assessed separately	1	1	0%
claimant bears burden to substantiate and prove factual infringement allegations, particularly when defendants deny them precisely at oral hearing (r. 171 rop)	1	1	0%
r. 114 rop for post-hearing evidence is available only for issues identified during the hearing as requiring specific additional investigation; it is not a tool for new infringement allegations	1	1	0%
conditional counterclaim for revocation is procedurally admissible where the condition is an internal procedural outcome (infringement finding)	1	1	0%
front-loaded written procedure requires all infringement contentions to be raised during the written phase	1	1	0%
r. 245 and art. 81 upca: rehearing is an extraordinary remedy, not a supplement to the merits	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
defendants' appstack, securestack-ssl and threat simulator products directly infringe claim 16 and indirectly infringe claim 1	Claimant	1
oral hearing should be reopened to allow expert review of defendants' source code, and defendants should produce source code	Claimant	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.