Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: Missing components may support indirect infringement (Art. 26 UPCA) but not direct infringement

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
direct infringement (art. 25 upca) requires all claimed components to be present in the accused product	1	1	0%
missing components may support indirect infringement (art. 26 upca) but not direct infringement	1	1	0%
register governs standing for patent proprietor; claimant seeking to challenge patent effects need not look beyond registration	1	1	0%
new arguments on indirect infringement filed outside case management regime without leave are inadmissible	1	1	0%
parallel proceedings against different defendants are legally independent; arguments and findings from settled parallel proceedings cannot simply be 'adopted' in the present case	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
direct infringement of ep 2 263 098 b1 by google's wi-fi positioning product	Claimant	1
late indirect infringement auxiliary requests introduced in unsolicited september 2025 submission	Claimant	1

Most-cited prior art

References relied on across substantive merits cases, with the role they typically play.

Reference	Predominant role	Cases
D12, D13, D14 (prior art documents referenced in proceedings)	Obviousness combination	1