Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: amendment during proceedings subject to admissibility requirements (r. 30.2 rop)

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
novelty: an invention is part of the state of the art when disclosed completely and unambiguously in a single prior art document or prior use	1	1	0%
inventive step: objective technical problem must be derived from effects causally related to claimed technical features; effects requiring additional information not in the application cannot define the problem	1	1	0%
amendment during proceedings subject to admissibility requirements (r. 30.2 rop)	1	1	0%
revocation defeats infringement action	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
application to amend the patent (auxiliary requests) should be admitted	Claimant	1
infringement action for ep 2 726 230 b1	Claimant	1

Most-cited prior art

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

Reference	Predominant role	Cases
Prior use (Girderflex machine) at EUR 2,000,000 price point	Novelty-destroying	1