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UPC_CFI_337/2025

TCL EUROPE SAS v. Corning Incorporated

Datum
2026-02-24
Kammer
Munich (DE) Central Division - Section
Verfahrensart
Revocation Action
Sprache
EN

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1 Decision of the Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court Central Division (Section Munich) issued on 24 February 2026 HEADNOTES: 1. A realistic starting point is typically a prior art disclosure as a whole. Absent a specific reason or pointer in the disclosure itself (or based on common general knowledge) to do so, the selection of a particular example composition as a “starting point”, merely because it happens to come “closest” to the claimed subject matter in terms of structural components, bears the risk that such selection itself already involves hindsight. 2. Where the features of a patent claim, in an interdependent way, even if they are not synergetic in the sense of having a special combination effect, provide a solution to the objective problem, ignoring these interd ...