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1 ORDER of the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court issued on 17 April 2026 concerning a request for provisional measures HEADNOTES 1. A claim feature should not be excluded from the assessment of inventive step merely because it is a non-technical feature, i.e. a feature which, on its own, would be considered a “non -invention” under Art. 52(2) EPC. A feature that is non -technical as such may still contribute to the technical character of the claimed invention as a whole by its interaction with the other claim features. Therefore, the interrelationship and functioning of the claim features must be assessed together. 2. Pursuant to R. 220.1 RoP, only a party adversely affected by a decision may lodge an appeal. The same applies to a cross-appeal pursuant to R. 237 RoP . A cross-app ...