Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: auxiliary requests to amend must address the specific invalidity ground to be relevant

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
added matter (lack of original disclosure) is assessed against the parent application as a whole, not just individual passages	1	1	0%
patent claims invalid for added matter if neither the explicit text nor the drawings of the parent application disclose the claimed feature combination	1	1	0%
auxiliary requests to amend must address the specific invalidity ground to be relevant	1	1	0%
where asserted claims are invalid, the infringement action must be dismissed	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
claims 1 and 11 are supported by the parent application and do not go beyond its content	Claimant	1
auxiliary requests to amend the patent should cure the added-matter defect	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.