Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: revocation of patent defeats infringement action regardless of infringement merits

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
all claim amendments evaluated for inventive step; no 'safe harbour' in amendment merely by adding features already disclosed in prior art	1	1	0%
generalisation of a prior-art concept from one technical sub-domain to a related one does not involve an inventive step	1	1	0%
revocation of patent defeats infringement action regardless of infringement merits	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
unconditionally amended main request and auxiliary requests 1–12 should be maintained	Claimant	1
hlcc17 only discloses n-gram vectors applied to url filepaths, not domain names generally	Claimant	1

Most-cited prior art

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

Reference	Predominant role	Cases
HLCC17	Obviousness combination	1