Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: Interim award of costs limited to court fees where merits proceedings are to follow

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
mushroom strain patent not excluded from patentability under art. 53(b) epc	1	1	100%
provisional measures require prima facie infringement	1	1	100%
security may be ordered as condition for enforcement (r. 211.5 rop)	1	1	100%
case value may be inferred from the security amount requested by the defendant	1	1	100%
interim award of costs limited to court fees where merits proceedings are to follow	1	1	100%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
requested case value of eur 500,000 for determining recoverable-costs ceiling	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.