Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: claims and drawings read without result-oriented avoidance of infringement finding

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
default judgment requires verification of sufficient, precise and consistent evidence (r. 355.2 rop)	1	1	100%
patent lexicon — terms interpreted by principal functional meaning	1	1	100%
claims and drawings read without result-oriented avoidance of infringement finding	1	1	100%
costs cap applies per instance regardless of number of parties or patents (art. 1(3) ac decision 24 march 2023)	1	1	100%

Most-rejected arguments

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

No rejected-argument data in the current scope.

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.