Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: relative vs. absolute prohibition for indirect infringement injunctions

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
indirect infringement (mittelbare patentverletzung) under art. 26 upca	1	1	100%
extended workbench theory for direct infringement requires certainty of completion of patented device	1	1	100%
relative vs. absolute prohibition for indirect infringement injunctions	1	1	100%
limited validity examination in pi proceedings (best three arguments rule)	1	1	100%
security required as condition of provisional measures enforcement	1	1	100%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
direct infringement of device claim established because defendant appropriates downstream customer acts (verlängerte werkbank / extended workbench theory)	Claimant	1
patent ep 3 866 051 is invalid (validity challenge in pi proceedings)	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.