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Central Division Paris Seat DECISION of the Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court Central division - Paris seat issued on 21 July 2025 in the revocation action No. ACT_27463/2024 UPC_CFI_231/2024 HEADNOTES: 1. Lack of novelty and lack of an inventive step are separate grounds for revoking a patent and cannot be absorbed when asserted against the same prior art document. Simply indicating in general terms that a prior art document will be used to challenge the patent's novelty and/or inventive step, providing a detailed analysis of the document only with respect to inventive step, is insufficient to establish that the document is being used to challenge the patent's novelty. 2. Although the dependent claims are subordinated to the independent claims, the grounds for their revo ...