Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: claim interpretation and clarity are threshold issues in revocation proceedings

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
claim interpretation and clarity are threshold issues in revocation proceedings	1	1	100%
added matter under art. 123(2) epc assessed for both granted claims and proposed amendments	1	1	100%
late auxiliary requests may be rejected as inadmissible; reasonable number of conditional amendments required (r.50(2) rop)	1	1	100%
where both parties partially succeed (patent invalid as granted but maintained as amended), each party bears its own costs (art. 69(2) upca)	1	1	100%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
defendant's submission of 31 may 2024 (inadmissible late submission)	Respondent	1
auxiliary requests iia, viia, viiia, ixa and xiia filed on 13 november 2024	Respondent	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.