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1 Paris Local Division UPC_CFI_138/2025 UPC_CFI_522/2025 DECISION of the Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court delivered on 16/04/2026 Headnotes 1. Probative value of the “affidavit”: Although the written statements do not carry the probative value of an independent and objective expert, the Court considers them to be valuable technical information. 2. Novelty: The claimed invention is for the skilled person directly and unambiguously derivable from a single prior art disclosure, using common general knowledge. However, the same technical effect is not required in the case of a product invention defined by structural technical features only, which covers a product considered in its own right, independently of any technical result or effect. 3. A single prior art document was c ...