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1 Local Division Mannheim UPC_CFI_481/2025 UPC_CFI_1358/2025 Decision of the Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court Local Division Mannheim delivered on 20 October 2026 concerning EP 3 667 981 HEADNOTES: 1. In the absence of any pointer to the opposite, it must be assumed that a feature in a patent claim has a technical significance within the teaching of the claim and contributes to the teaching and its technical effect. 2. When assessing the disclosure content of an (priority) application, hindsight must be avoided. It is not sufficient that the skilled person having the granted patent claim in mind might recognize elements of the granted patent claim in the priority appl ication and assign them accordingly to features of the granted patent. On the contrary, the subject -mat ...