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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. The patentee is responsible for drafting claims that adequately define the subject matter for which protection is sought. This is particularly the case for composition claims containing numerical ranges of ingredients. For such claims, the skilled person may reasonably expect that the patentee is precise and diligent in specifying the components of a claimed composi- tion. 2. Absent an inextricable link between a claimed composition and an inventive process for the production of a known end-product, no inventive step can be acknowledged for an otherwise non-inventive composition relied upon as an intermediate product. KEYWORDS: Claim interpretatio ...