UPC CFI, LD The Hague, 13 August 2025: lack of inventive step because steps are basic: suggested by common general knowledge
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Patent partially revoked (Article 65 UPCA); not infringed (Article 25 UPCA). Lack of inventive step (Article 56 EPC) because error-cleaning steps suggested by common general knowledge, as mentioned above, are so basic that any Skilled Person would perform them, regardless of how unreliable they think the data is. In any case, the Court finds that it is clear from the video, and even more so from its application in a live commercial kitchen environment, that the captured weights will inevitably contain errors, such as when a bin is changed or when users rest their hands, plates or pans on the scale. If the counter claimant seeks revocation of claims not asserted against it, and those claims are upheld, a compensation of costs is in order (Article 69 UPCA, R. 152 RoP).
