Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: hindsight in selection of closest prior art starting point

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
problem-solution approach to inventive step	1	1	100%
hindsight in selection of closest prior art starting point	1	1	100%
interdependency of claim features in objective problem formulation	1	1	100%
disclosure of numerical ranges and novelty	1	1	100%
purposive non-use of a component as a technical feature distinguishing over prior art	1	1	100%
reasonable expectation of success	1	1	100%
motivation and pointer in inventive step assessment	1	1	100%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
claim 1 lacks novelty over cited prior art range disclosures	Claimant	1
claim 1 lacks inventive step starting from d14 (float process glass) combined with d16 (refining agents)	Claimant	1
inventive step challenged by reference to chinese supreme people's court judgment on a related chinese patent	Claimant	1
experimental report d41 relevant to patentability of auxiliary requests	Claimant	1

Most-cited prior art

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