Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: non-publicly-accessible documents do not constitute common general knowledge

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
amended unitary patent takes effect from original european patent grant date	1	1	100%
national parts of a european patent in non-upca states assessed against the patent as originally granted	1	1	100%
non-publicly-accessible documents do not constitute common general knowledge	1	1	100%
the skilled person is an executor, not a creative innovator	1	1	100%
unconditional amendment of unitary patent: risk of annulment by non-upc national courts assessed on original (unamended) claims	1	1	100%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
counterclaim for nullity of claims 1 and 6 of the amended patent and subsidiary requests	Respondent	1
infringement of the swiss national part of the patent should also be found	Claimant	1
decision should be disseminated to mul-t-lock's customers	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.