Legal issues

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

Filtering to principle: routine implementation of network connection as of 2012 priority date

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
decision by default under r. 355 rop	1	1	0%
obviousness assessment: combination of prior art from different actuation domains permissible where sequence of controller operation is independent of valve structure	1	1	0%
routine implementation of network connection as of 2012 priority date	1	1	0%
partial revocation limited to scope of claim 1 in upc member states	1	1	0%
costs borne by absent defendant as unsuccessful party	1	1	0%

Most-rejected arguments

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

Argument	Party	Cases
claim 1 lacks novelty over public prior uses (chilliwack, chime long, festival bay facilities) and d5 (us 2008/0085159)	Claimant	1

Most-cited prior art

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

Reference	Predominant role	Cases
US 4,558,474 (D1)	Obviousness combination	1
D3 (publication on hydraulic wave generation with software interface)	Obviousness combination	1
US 2008/0085159 A1 (D5)	Background	1
D2, D4, D6	Obviousness combination	1
Chilliwack, Chime Long, Festival Bay prior uses	Background	1