Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: patentee that fails to file r. 30 rop amendment request has no auxiliary requests to consider

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 applied to pharmaceutical second medical use: prior art disclosure of use negates inventive step absent distinct technical effect	1	1	0%
specific solvate forms within common general knowledge do not establish inventive step without a linked technical effect	1	1	0%
arbitrary limitations or limitations responding to the same problem without distinct technical effect do not confer inventive step	1	1	0%
where patent is invalid in its entirety, infringement actions are dismissed	1	1	0%
patentee that fails to file r. 30 rop amendment request has no auxiliary requests to consider	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
ep 2 493 466 (cabazitaxel antitumour use patent) is valid over the prior art	Claimant	1
no auxiliary requests for patent amendment filed	Claimant	1

Most-cited prior art

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

Reference	Predominant role	Cases
NHSC document (clinical/regulatory document disclosing cabazitaxel antitumour use in docetaxel-pretreated patients)	Novelty-destroying	1