| 25-1132 |
Rideshare Displays, Inc. v. Lyft, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-03-26 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review functional-limitations patent-eligibility patent-trial-and-appeal-board section-101 written-description |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit has wrongly applied this
Court's and its own precedent in disregarding key
functional limitations of the claims that … |
| 25-1114 |
EscapeX IP, LLC v. Google LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2026-03-24 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-sanctions patent-fee-awards rule-59-motion section-1927 subjective-bad-faith |
1. The Ninth Circuit has long held that sanctions under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 "must be supported by a finding of subjective bad faith," and that bad faith … |
| 25-1111 |
Roxana Towry Russell v. Walmart Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-03-23 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review copyright-infringement federal-rules-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law secondary-liability sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether a court of appeals may assess the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a jury verdict by reviewing the denial of a Rule 50(a) motion.
2.… |
| 25-1107 |
Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al., v. Computer Sciences Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-03-23 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
compensatory-damages defend-trade-secrets-act due-process punitive-damages trade-secrets unjust-enrichment |
1. Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1836, can a plaintiff obtain a monetary award for unjust enrichment even if it suffered no harm bey… |
| 25-1104 |
CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-03-23 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-procedure judicial-opinion patent-law ptab-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit can affirm a PTAB decision without opinion in contravention of the clear statutory requirement of an "opinion" when review… |
| 25-1068 |
CAO Lighting, Inc. v. Wolfspeed, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-03-10 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
administrative-procedure-act claim-construction inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board summary-affirmance |
Whether the Federal Circuit's use of its Local Rule 36, which allows summary affirmance without opinion, (a) improperly defers to the Patent Trial and… |
| 25-1049 |
Gilbert P. Hyatt v. John A. Squires, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2026-03-04 |
Pending |
Amici (5) |
equitable-doctrine gap-filling-doctrine patent-act patent-examination patent-issuance prosecution-laches |
Whether the PTO may invoke the equitable doctrine of "prosecution laches" to deny a patent to an applicant who has complied with all the Patent Act's … |
| 25-1033 |
NRA Group, LLC v. Nicole Durenleau, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
computer-fraud-and-abuse-act defend-trade-secrets-act rule-of-lenity scienter-requirement trade-secrets unauthorized-access |
In Van Buren v. United States, 593 U.S. 374 (2021), the Court articulated a "gates up/gates down" formulation for determining whether an employee exce… |
| 25-1018 |
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Sean O'Day, in His Official Capacity as Director of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-24 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
compelled-disclosure first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny regulatory-takings takings-clause trade-secrets |
1. Whether a government reporting requirement is subject to intermediate First Amendment scrutiny, and satisfies such scrutiny, so long as it aims to … |
| 25-1011 |
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Unified Patents, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2026-02-24 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
America-Invents-Act inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-estoppel patent-litigation real-parties-in-interest |
To discourage unnecessary litigation and protect patent owners' rights, the America Invents Act requires a petition for inter partes review to identif… |
| 25-964 |
TNSG Health Co., Ltd., et al. v. Murray Colin Clarke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split intellectual-property lanham-act trademark-infringement trademark-registration used-in-commerce |
Under the Lanham Act, any "trademark used in commerce" may be registered. 15 U.S.C. § 1051. That "used in commerce" standard is more lenient than the … |
| 25-959 |
CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. |
Third Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
advertising-campaign circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising jury-inference lanham-act |
Whether a jury hearing a false advertising case under the Lanham Act should be barred from inferring consumer deception and reliance upon finding that… |
| 25-953 |
Finesse Wireless LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
credibility-determination expert-testimony federal-circuit judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-law |
Whether a purported inconsistency in the testimony of an expert witness is an issue of credibility for the jury to resolve, as every regional circuit … |
| 25-896 |
Michael J. House v. General Electric Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent-infringement seventh-amendment trial-by-jury |
1. "Whether" our Supreme Court will allow Plaintiff House their 7th Amendment rights of trial by jury shall be preserved by our U.S. Constitution per … |
| 25-853 |
United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
abstract-idea alice-framework federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 technological-process |
Congress has authorized inventors to patent "any new and useful process," or "any new and useful improvement thereof." 35 U.S.C. § 101. This Court has… |
| 25-779 |
Bright Data Ltd. v. Code200, UAB, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-construction inter-partes-review patent-claim-scope patent-disclaimer patent-prosecution trademark-office-proceedings |
When a patentee disclaims subject matter from the scope of its claims by written statements made at any time during U.S. Patent and Trademark Office p… |
| 25-754 |
Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
|
burrow-giles-precedent circuit-split copyright-law feist-decision legal-standard photography-copyright |
1. Whether, on an acknowledged Circuit split, copyrightability is a pure question of law, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or includes considerations … |
| 25-753 |
Zioness Movement, Inc. v. The Lawfare Project, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Denied |
|
consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act legal-standing source-identification trademark-ownership |
1. Whether, under the Lanham Act, a court or jury may find joint ownership of a trademark between competing entities—neither of which pleaded or prove… |
| 25-736 |
World Champ Tech, LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split factor-test lanham-act likely-confusion summary-judgment trademark-infringement |
The Lanham Act prohibits use of a trademark when such use is "likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive." 15 U.S.C, §1114(1)(a); s… |
| 25-636 |
Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
|
confidentiality federal-preemption interlocutory-appeal statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause trade-secrets |
1. Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, state courts may adjudicate contractual and property interests involving Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) prote… |
| 25-631 |
Jae S. Nah v. Andrew V. Jablon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
copyright-discovery due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-courts judicial-procedure remand-order |
1. In this early stage of litigation, DC and Appeal courts ignored 1-188 pages of factual evidence showing 7 Orders of 4 federal courts ruled by fraud… |
| 25-570 |
Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Synthego Corp. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
anticipation burden-of-proof enablement patent-validity printed-publications prior-art |
1. Should printed publications be presumed to be
enabling when a party challenging the validity
of issued patent claims asserts that a printed
publ… |
| 25-568 |
Jaime Rogozinski v. Reddit, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brand-identity intellectual-property platform-rights social-media trademark user-generated-content |
Who owns the trademark for a user-created online community on a social media platform: the social media platform that provides the technical infrastru… |
| 25-555 |
SurfCast, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure patent-law property-rights |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144, which requires the Federal Circuit to issue "opinion[s]" in PTAB appeals, is a reasoning-giving directive that prohibits the … |
| 25-505 |
Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
judicial-exceptions machine-learning patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption section-101 |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit's approach to patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 flouts this Court's instruction to consider preemption, as discu… |
| 25-449 |
Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
ai-generated-works artificial-intelligence authorship copyright-law creative-works intellectual-property |
1. Whether works outputted by an AI system without a direct, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted. |
| 25-444 |
Denice Shakarian Halicki, et al. v. Carroll Shelby Licensing, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
character-protection copyright-infringement distinctive-character film-franchise ninth-circuit-test stock-character |
Is copyright protection for characters limited to only those characters that meet the Ninth Circuit's three-element test? Or, as the Second, Seventh, … |
| 25-439 |
Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
|
affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-procedure legal-standard non-patent-case venue |
Whether a defendant who raises the affirmative defense of improper venue in a non-patent case bears the burden of proving that venue is improper. |
| 25-435 |
Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-09 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response Requested |
administrative-agency federal-circuit legal-standing proximate-causation trademark-opposition zone-of-interests |
Whether a party desiring to participate in an administrative agency proceeding, including a trade mark opposition proceeding at the United States Pate… |
| 25-400 |
PT Medisafe Technologies v. United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split color-trademark generic-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-protection |
Does the "generic name" requirement of the trademark statute, 15 U.S.C. § 1064(3), apply equally to all marks or is there a special rule for color tra… |
| 25-375 |
CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-review appellate-procedure federal-circuit patent-law rule-36 statutory-interpretation |
Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36, which allows the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to issue an affirmance without opinion when r… |
| 25-308 |
Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
inter-partes-review patent-act patent-applications printed-publications prior-art statutory-interpretation |
Whether patent applications that became publicly
accessible only after the challenged patent's critical date
are "prior art * * * printed publicatio… |
| 25-270 |
Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-injury estoppel federal-circuit intellectual-property patent-infringement patent-standing |
1. whether Federal circuit erred in affirming sum mary Judgement of non-infringement of Utah Court Judgement No2023-2329 based on estoppel in con trav… |
| 25-225 |
MSN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
after-arising-technology claim-construction federal-circuit patent-infringement patent-validity section-112 |
In a patent case, "after-arising technology" is technology that was not invented until after the patent's filing. Neither this Court nor the Federal C… |
| 25-217 |
CeramTec GmbH v. CoorsTek Bioceramics LLC, fka C5 Medical Werks, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
design-functionality evidence-standard intellectual-property product-design trademark-law utility-patent |
Whether under this Court's decision in TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc., 532 U.S. 23 (2001), a utility patent that produces a product… |
| 25-215 |
Vetements Group AG v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
|
consumer-perception descriptiveness foreign-equivalents genericness lanham-act trademark-law |
Under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq., no mark shall be refused nationwide protection as a registered trademark on account of its nature unle… |
| 25-188 |
JFXD TRX ACQ LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company v. trx.com, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
anticybersquatting-consumer-protection-act bad-faith-registration circuit-split domain-name-registration intellectual-property-law trademark-protection |
The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) creates a cause of action against a person who in bad faith "registers, traffics in, or uses" an… |
| 25-158 |
R. J. Reynolds Vapor Company v. Altria Client Services LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
apportionment expert-testimony federal-circuit patent-damages patent-infringement royalty-calculation |
Most products are made up of numerous components and features, patented and unpatented both. Their commercial success may be attributable to consumer … |
| 25-149 |
United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-decision arbitrary-capricious patent-challenge patent-trial-appeal-board |
"It is a fundamental principle of administrative law that agencies must treat like cases alike." Grayscale Invs., LLC v. SEC, 82 F.4th 1239, 1242 (D.C… |
| 25-144 |
Thomas D. Foster, APC v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure constitutional-vagueness lanham-act statutory-interpretation trademark-application trademark-law |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit improperly considered government developments that post date a trademark applicant's filing to support a refusal under … |
| 25-140 |
Jennine Labuzan-Delane v. Cochran & Cochran Land Company, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
|
contract-clause discovery-rules federal-procedure land-patent summary-judgment supremacy-clause |
1. Whether a district court may grant summary judgment without affording any opportunity for discovery —contrary to Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S.… |
| 25-75 |
Crocs, Inc. v. Double Diamond Distribution, Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
commercial-advertising intangible-properties lanham-act misrepresentation patent-status trademark-law |
Whether the Lanham Act's prohibition on "misrepresent[ations]" as to "nature, characteristics, [or] qualities" extends to misrepresentations about the… |
| 25-18 |
Cirrus Design Corporation v. Great Western Air, LLC, dba Cirrus Aviation Services, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-split jury-trial lanham-act monetary-relief seventh-amendment trademark-infringement |
Whether, as this Court held in Dairy Queen, the Seventh Amendment jury-trial right applies in trademark-infringement actions seeking monetary relief i… |
| 25-17 |
D R Burton Healthcare LLC v. Trudell Medical International Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-management civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment patent-litigation trial-timeline |
Whether a district court's order changing the time to trial in its case management order from at least 326 days to 146 days, and its time for completi… |
| 24-1311 |
Kevin T. Lavery v. Pursuant Health, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split contract-interpretation patent-law patent-misuse royalty-agreement stare-decisis |
Whether the Court should overrule Brulotte and Kimble or at least clarify that an agreement containing a post-expiration royalty is not per se patent … |
| 24-1280 |
Gesture Technology Partners, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-adjudication article-iii non-jury-forum patent-monopoly patent-validity property-rights |
Whether the PTO has the authority to conduct administrative adjudications regarding the validity of expired patents, and thereby extinguish private pr… |
| 24-1281 |
Gesture Technology Partners, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-adjudication article-iii non-article-iii-forum patent-monopoly patent-validity property-rights |
Whether the PTO has the authority to conduct administrative adjudications regarding the validity of expired patents, and thereby extinguish private pr… |
| 24-1251 |
Nicole Gilbert-Daniels v. Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
copyright-infringement due-process expert-evidence ninth-circuit substantial-similarity summary-judgment |
1. Substantial Similarity and Summary
Judgment: Does the Ninth Circuit's application of the
extrinsic test and its requirement of striking similarity
… |
| 24-1222 |
Courtney Richmond v. Nolan Wiese, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-adjudication copyright-law federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion product-liability tort-claims |
1. Whether federal courts may decline to adjudicate federal tort and product liability claims properly raised for the first time in federal court, whe… |
| 24-1143 |
Atrium Medical Corporation v. C.R. Bard, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split contract-law judicial-interpretation patent-expiration patent-licensing royalty-agreement |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's approach fails to properly determine what royalties are "for," as Brulotte and Kimble require. |
| 24-1137 |
NexStep, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
doctrine-of-equivalents expert-testimony federal-circuit jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-law |
Whether a patentee must in every case present "particularized testimony and linking argument" to establish infringement under the doctrine of equivale… |
| 24-1132 |
Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
|
federal-circuit non-obviousness obviousness patent-law pharmaceutical-innovation secondary-considerations |
Whether, as this Court has held, the objective indicia of non-obviousness should be analyzed flexibly to combat hindsight bias or instead subject to t… |
| 24-1058 |
CloudofChange, LLC v. NCR Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
direct-use federal-circuit method-claims patent-infringement system-claims vicarious-liability |
Whether the same vicarious liability analysis for direct use infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a) must be applied to both method and system claims. |
| 24-1040 |
Elliot McGucken v. Valnet, Inc., a Canadian Corporation, dba TheTravel.com |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
copyright-infringement fair-use public-display statutory-interpretation technological-process unauthorized-use |
Whether the exclusive right to publicly display a copyrighted work, 17 U.S.C. § 106(5), is infringed when a website operator publicly shows a copyrigh… |
| 24-1016 |
RiseandShine Corporation, dba Rise Brewing v. PepsiCo, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Pending |
CVSGResponse Requested |
circuit-split federal-trademark intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion statutory-interpretation trademark-law |
Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under 15 U.S.C. § 1114. |
| 24-1011 |
Jem Accessories, Inc., dba Xtreme Cables, a New Jersey Corporation v. Harman International Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split intellectual-property laches lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-law |
Whether courts may borrow state statutes of limitations to create presumptions of laches in federal trademark actions under the Lanham Act.
Whether c… |
| 24-981 |
Structured Asset Sales, LLC v. Edward Christopher Sheeran, pka Ed Sheeran, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-13 |
Denied |
|
agency-interpretation chevron-deference copyright-law first-impression legal-judgment second-circuit |
1. Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously abdicate its responsibility to "decide legal questions by applying their own judgment " by inst… |
| 24-967 |
Grande Communications Networks, LLC v. UMG Recordings, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
GVR |
|
content-neutral contributory-liability copyright-infringement internet-service-provider statutory-interpretation third-party-notice |
Whether an ISP is liable for contributory copyright infringement by (i) providing content-neutral internet access to the general public and (ii) faili… |
| 24-950 |
Urvashi Bhagat v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-standards due-process expert-testimony innovation nutrition-arts patent-law |
The Respondents and the U.S. patent courts are obstructing advancement in nutrition and prevention by unlawfully denying patents, neutering innovation… |
| 24-953 |
Lerner and Rowe PC, an Arizona Corporation v. Brown Engstrand & Shely LLC, dba Accident Law Group, an Arizona Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion trademark-infringement |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has created conflicts with the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits … |
| 24-916 |
Koss Corporation v. Bose Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-estoppel dismissal-stipulation federal-circuit non-merits-determination patent-claims rule-12(b)(6) |
When a district court grants a Rule -12(b)(6) motion to dismiss but does so without prejudice and with leave to amend, may that non-merits deter minat… |
| 24-889 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (29) |
carve-out generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act induced-infringement patent-infringement skinny-label |
1. When a generic drug label fully carves out a patented use, are allegations that the generic drugmaker calls its product a "generic version" and cit… |
| 24-866 |
Converter Manufacturing, LLC v. Tekni-Plex, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law burden-of-proof patent-enablement patent-validity prior-art statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the patent challenger always has
the burden of proving that the disclosures in an
asserted prior art patent or printed publication
are enab… |
| 24-836 |
Impact Engine, Inc. v. Google LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-construction functional-claim judicial-exception patent-act patent-eligibility scientific-building-blocks |
Section 101 of the Patent Act provides that "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter" is eligible for a patent. This… |
| 24-825 |
WC Realty Group, Inc., dba Century 21 WC Realty v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
copyright-infringement fee-motion litigation-strategy meritorious-defense statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
1. Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fee under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a … |
| 24-827 |
Broadband iTV, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
|
alice-test claim-construction material-fact patent-eligibility patent-law summary-judgment |
Courts assess whether patent claims are patenteligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 using the two-step test articulated in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Internatio… |
| 24-768 |
RADesign, Inc., et al. v. Michael Grecco Productions, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-action copyright-act discovery-rule infringement injury-rule statute-of-limitations |
Whether a claim "accrue [s]" under the Copyright Act's statute of limitations for civil actions, 17 U.S.C. 507(b), when the infringement occurs (the "… |
| 24-729 |
Forrest L. Geist v. Kansas State University Foundation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights intellectual-property property-protection safe-harbor sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Q: May a natural person, whose IP is taken by state gov't w/o payment, seek fair redress under the self-executing Takings Clause if that state's legis… |
| 24-734 |
Strategic Technology Institute, Incorporated v. MGMTL, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split computer-program copyright-law fair-use menu-command potential-market |
1. Whether the scope of protectable matter in a computer program is a question for the Court, as the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth, Te… |
| 24-723 |
Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-circuit judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-infringement seventh-amendment standard-of-review |
I. Whether the Federal Circuit applied an incorrect standard of review for appeals of a Judgment as a Matter of Law (JMOL) and, as a result, improperl… |
| 24-726 |
DISH Network L.L.C. v. Dragon Intellectual Property LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
administrative-proceeding attorney-fees district-court-discretion fee-shifting joint-and-several-liability patent-law |
1. Whether the Patent Act's fee-shifting statute allows a district court discretion to impose joint and several liability for the fee award on a party… |
| 24-725 |
Hytera Communications Corporation Ltd. v. Motorola Solutions, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
defend-trade-secrets-act economic-espionage-act extraterritorial-application presumption-against-extraterritoriality private-right-of-action trade-secret-misappropriation |
Does the private right of action for trade secret misappropriation created by the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 rebut the presumption against extra… |
| 24-711 |
Joe Morford v. Maurizio Cattelan |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
|
access-proof artwork-copying circuit-split copyright-law striking-similarity substantial-likeness |
1. Can portions of artwork establish striking similarity?
2. Must artwork be popular, prosperous or promoted to be reasonably accessible online? |
| 24-688 |
Property Matters USA, LLC v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees copyright-law federal-procedure rule-41 statutory-interpretation voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a defendant is barred from recovering attorney's fee under 17 U.S.C. §505 because a plaintiff's Rule 41(a)(1) voluntary dismissal is not a cou… |
| 24-635 |
Celanese International Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
america-invents-act on-sale-bar patent-invalidation patent-law process-claims secret-process |
Whether the sale of an end product made by secret use of a later-patented process places "the claimed invention"—that is, the process itself—on sale a… |
| 24-637 |
T-Mobile US, Inc., fka T-Mobile USA, Inc., et al. v. Simply Wireless Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
common-law-mark continuous-use lanham-act section-1127 trademark-infringement trademark-rights |
Whether the "use" that creates a common law trademark right under Section 45 of the Lanham Act, 35 U.S.C. § 1127 (2006), must be continuous—at least u… |
| 24-634 |
Binyomin Rutstein v. Compulife Software, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
data-extraction defend-trade-secrets-act electronic-acquisition improper-means trade-secrets web-scraping |
Whether an action that is not unlawful under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act ("DTSA") when performed manually by a human (or humans) is unlawful … |
| 24-569 |
BMC Software, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
commercial-licensing contract-interpretation copyright-law fifth-circuit-ruling software-licensing trade-restraint |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in overriding a license agreement's plain language and holding that a contractual provision regarding the use of copyr… |
| 24-548 |
Arbor Global Strategies, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act agency-decision inter-partes-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board prosecutorial-function separation-of-functions |
Whether Section 554(d) prohibits the same Patent Trial and Appeal Board panel from instituting and deciding inter partes review, because institution i… |
| 24-537 |
Canadian Standards Association v. P.S. Knight Company, Limited, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-14 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
copyright-law government-edicts intellectual-property legal-protection merger-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government-edicts and merger doctrines strip concededly copyrighted and copyrightable works of protection under the Copyright Act merely b… |
| 24-518 |
ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-law appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure patent-law property-rights |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144, which requires the Federal Circuit to issue "opinion[s]" in PTAB appeals, is a reason-giving directive that prohibits the Fed… |
| 24-461 |
Island Intellectual Property LLC v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
appellate-procedure due-process local-rule-36 patent-law seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
This case represents a dangerous trend in patent cases whereby district courts grant summary judgment while ignoring factual disputes and/or weighing … |
| 24-439 |
Miller Mendel, Inc. v. City of Anna, Texas |
Federal Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii constitutional-authority impeachment-process judicial-removal mental-health-evaluation patent-appeals |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit in removing a duly
appointed Article III judge from judicial duties for her refusal to submit to a mental health evalu… |
| 24-428 |
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, et al. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
federal-circuit hatch-waxman-act patent-infringement regulatory-use safe-harbor statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under Hatch-Waxman's safe harbor, an infringing act is "solely for uses reasonably related" to the federal regulatory process, when the infri… |
| 24-418 |
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. v. Mary N. Insall, as Executrix of the Estate of John N. Insall |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split contract-enforcement patent-rights patent-royalties patent-term public-policy |
A patent holder cannot "charge royalties for the use of his invention after its patent term has expired." Kimble v. Marvel Enterprise, LLC, 576 U.S. 4… |
| 24-321 |
King for Congress v. Laney Griner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Requested |
attorneys-fees copyright-law de-forest-test implied-license marek-decision rule-68 |
1. Does Fed.R.Civ.P. 68 allow a non-prevailing judgment-defendant to recover attorneys' fees under this Court's Marek decision pursuant to Copyright L… |
| 24-312 |
Plotagraph, Inc., et al. v. Lightricks, Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alice-doctrine computer-implemented-invention digital-animation patent-eligibility pixel-shifting software-patent |
Whether the claims at issue in the Plotagraph patents are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101, as interpreted in Alice Corporation Pty v. CLS Bank I… |
| 24-301 |
William French Anderson, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-expenses economic-espionage intellectual-property legal-deductibility sixth-amendment trade-secrets |
Whether Anderson's attorney fees incurred in defense of a false criminal claim that was brought by his former business partner turned competitor and f… |
| 24-294 |
Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
|
fda-approval generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act injunctive-relief patent-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(4)(A) requires courts to issue injunctive orders that are broader in scope than the underlying infringement, thereby delayi… |
| 24-236 |
Steve Campbell v. Tube-Mac Industries, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
co-inventor-rights federal-circuit patent-assignment patent-jurisdiction unclean-hands wipo-treaty |
1. As Congress has signed the United States of America to the rules and stipulations of the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Federal Circuit thr… |
| 24-228 |
Erik M. Underwood, et al. v. Bank of America Corporation |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
|
evidence-context mark-association online-services search-engine-results trademark-ownership website-identification |
In determining whether a person has established ownership rights in a trademark or service mark in connection with services provided on a website, the… |
| 24-180 |
Roku, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
domestic-industry exclusion-order international-trade-commission multi-purpose-software patent-protection section-337 |
1. Did the ITC exceed its Section 337 authority by finding the entirety of complainant's investments in unpatented, multi-purpose software to be "with… |
| 24-181 |
Sony Music Entertainment, et al. v. Cox Communications, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2) |
circuit-split commercial-gain copyright-infringement direct-infringement secondary-liability vicarious-liability |
Whether the profit requirement of vicarious copyright infringement permits liability where the defendant expects commercial gain from the enterprise i… |
| 24-171 |
Cox Communications, Inc., et al. v. Sony Music Entertainment, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (37) |
copyright-infringement digital-copyright material-contribution secondary-liability service-provider willful-violation |
1. This Court has held that a business commits contributory copyright infringement when it "distributes a device with the object of promoting its use … |
| 24-114 |
Zebra Technologies Corporation v. Intellectual Tech LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
article-iii complex-contracts exclusionary-rights exclusive-licensee federal-circuit licensing-rights patent-infringement patent-standing standing |
Whether a party has Article III standing to assert a claim for patent infringement against an accused infringer who has the ability to obtain a licens… |
| 24-47 |
Return Mail, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corporation-v-cls-bank innovation judicial-interpretation patent patent-eligibility patent-law return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service section-101 |
Whether the claimed invention is ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to 35 U.S.C. §101. |
| 23-1349 |
Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confidentiality federal-circuit inter-partes-review on-sale-bar patent-law patent-law-35-usc-311-b printed-publication prior-art public-accessibility |
Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 311(b) , a petition for inter partes review ("IPR") may challenge claims "only on a ground that could be raised under section … |
| 23-1298 |
United Therapeutics Corporation v. Liquidia Technologies, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-law chevron chevron-deference civil-procedure inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Under 35 U.S.C. § 312, a petition for inter partes review (IPR) of a patent must "identif[y]" "with particularity" the "srounds on which the challenge… |
| 23-1252 |
Bill Gaede, et ux. v. Michael Delay, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
|
copyright-act copyright-infringement false-designation false-designation-of-origin intellectual-property lanham-act origin-clause scientific-priority usurpation |
Whether usurpation of scientific priority constitutes a violation under either the 'false designation of origin' clause of the Lanham Act or the copyr… |
| 23-1243 |
Kirk Johnston v. Chad Kroeger, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Denied |
|
access access-evidence copyright-infringement damages damages-discovery expert-evidence expert-testimony musicology substantial-similarity summary-judgment |
My name is Kirk Johnston, and I brought suit against the members of Nickelback and Warner Chappell for copyright infringement upon learning that my so… |
| 23-1231 |
Cellect, LLC v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Amici (11) |
equitable-doctrine good-faith-procurement investment-backed-expectations judicial-doctrine obviousness-type-double-patenting patent patent-invalidation patent-term-adjustment statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
Whether a patent procured in good faith can be invalidated on the ground that statutory Patent Term Adjustment, which requires lengthening a patent's … |
| 23-1217 |
Chestek PLLC v. Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit notice-and-comment patent-office patent-trademark-office rulemaking statutory-interpretation |
Whether the PTO is exempt from notice-and-comment requirements when exercising its rulemaking power under 35 U.S.C. § 2(b)(2). |
| 23-1184 |
Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-101 alice alice-test computer-network distributed-computing functional-claiming patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 specificity-of-description |
1. Whether claims drawn to solving specific problems restricting the usefulness of an existing computer-network technology recite patent-eligible subj… |
| 23-1142 |
Tarun Surti v. Fleet Engineers, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees cease-and-desist compensation doctrine-of-equivalents non-infringement patent-compensation patent-rights tortious-interference |
This is a petition for "Writ of Certiorari " author ized by 28 U.S.C. §165 1(a) because this Court has ju risdiction over several issues that were det… |
| 23-1118 |
Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Bumble Trading LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-251 claim-interpretation claim-limitation federal-circuit original-patent original-patent-requirement patent patent-reissue reissue statutory-construction u.s.-industrial-chemicals-inc-v-carbide-carbon-che |
Patent Owner and Petitioner obtained reissue patents with new patent claims, which broadened certain limitations and narrowed others vis-à-vis the ori… |
| 23-1052 |
Seirus Innovative Accessories, Inc. v. Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-03-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
comparison-prior-art design-patent function functional-limitations infringement ornamental ornamental-design patent-infringement prior-art same-article |
(1) Whether function must be disregarded in defining the scope of comparison prior art relevant to design patent infringement; and
(2) Whether compar… |
| 23-1023 |
Jodi A. Schwendimann v. Neenah, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
|
and making it impossible for Patent Owner to seek and the Federal Circuit's Rule 36 affirmance does thereby making it impossible for Patent Owner and claim-anticipation federal-circuit judicial-transparency patent-claim-construction patent-law,patent-claim-construction,federal-circu patent-review rule-36-judgment |
Is it permissible for the Federal Circuit to issue a Rule 36 Judgment, affirming certain claims as anticipated, where the Federal Circuit has been pre… |
| 23-1001 |
Larry Golden v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
7th-amendment civil-rights due-process patent race standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-958 |
Joshua Moon, et al. v. Russell G. Greer |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
Denied |
|
contributory-infringement copyright-infringement fair-use first-amendment material-contribution metro-goldwyn-mayer-studios-v-grokster takedown-notice |
1. Whether receipt of a takedown notice alone
is sufficient to impute actual knowledge of copyright
infringement to its recipient under the contributo… |
| 23-927 |
National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Music License Committee v. Copyright Royalty Board, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof copyright-royalty copyright-royalty-board first-amendment rate-setting religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act webcasting |
The Copyright Royalty Board sets default royalty rates for webcasting sound recordings. Recently, the Board adopted rates requiring noncommercial reli… |
| 23-917 |
Jeffrey-Allen Witzeman v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
|
breach-of-trust civil-rights due-process jurisdiction land-patent nonfeasance restraint-of-trade standing title title-challenge |
The United States District Court, District of California lacked lawful jurisdiction in cause no: 3:22-cv-1433-AGS'MSB for the reasons below 'The Compl… |
| 23-904 |
Larry Golden v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment due-process government-appropriation just-compensation patent takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-900 |
Dewberry Group, Inc., fka Dewberry Capital Corporation v. Dewberry Engineers Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure corporate-form corporate-separateness lanham-act profits-disgorgement standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law |
Whether an award of the "defendant's profits" under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), can include an order for the defendant to disgorge the distin… |
| 23-874 |
Impossible X LLC v. Impossible Foods Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
|
causation civil-procedure declaratory-judgment declaratory-relief due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction trademark-noninfringement |
Under the U.S. Constitution, courts may not exercise specific personal jurisdiction unless the plaintiff's alleged injury "arise s out of or relate s … |
| 23-804 |
Liquidia Technologies, Inc. v. United Therapeutics Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law federal-circuit induced-infringement inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-validity preclusion preclusion-doctrine ptab statutory-framework |
Under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA"), a party may challenge the validity of a patent in an inter partes review proceeding before the Pate… |
| 23-794 |
John Pacilio and Edward Bases v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment 35-usc-101 brown-vs-board civil-rights commodities-trading criminal-liability dodd-frank due-process fraud-statutes free-speech prosecutorial-discretion spoofing |
The question presented is whether spoofing violates the federal fraud statutes where a trader places a genuine, valid, fully executable order. |
| 23-796 |
Ficep Corporation v. Peddinghaus Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
|
abstract-idea alice-test automation fact-issues inventiveness manufacturing-process patent-eligibility subject-matter-eligibility technological-improvement technological-innovation |
Ficep invented and claimed a method of manufacturing components (like steel beams) of a larger structure (like the skeleton of a building). The claims… |
| 23-768 |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
federal-circuit innovation-standard ksr-international-co-v-teleflex KSR-precedent obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-law predictable-results reasonable-expectation-of-success |
Whether obviousness requires a showing of "predictable" results, as this Court held in KSR, or a mere "reasonable expectation of success," as the Fede… |
| 23-757 |
Relish Labs LLC, et al. v. Grubhub Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Requested |
appellate-review clear-error de-novo de-novo-review likelihood-of-confusion multifactor-test standard-of-review trademark-infringement |
1) Whether the determination of a likelihood of confusion for trademark infringement is a factual finding, reviewable for clear error, or a legal conc… |
| 23-752 |
Y.Y.G.M. SA, dba Brandy Melville v. Redbubble, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-consequences circuit-split contributory-liability contributory-trademark-infringement intellectual-property knowledge-standard legal-standard reasonable-steps specific-infringement trademark-infringement trademark-law |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Second and Tenth Circuits, that a defendant may be held liable for contributor… |
| 23-739 |
Jodi A. Schwendimann, fka Jodi A. Dalvey v. Neenah, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-103 federal-circuit-review ksr-standard ksr-v-teleflex obviousness patent-law primary-reference prior-art wbip-v-kohler yeda-v-mylan |
In conducting an obviousness analysis under 35 U.S.C. § 103, did the Federal Circuit err in holding that there "is no basis in our case law" for requi… |
| 23-740 |
Larry Golden v. Qualcomm, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
|
7th-amendment case-document civil-rights court-filing document-type due-process legal-document legal-proceeding patent standing takings |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that a smartphone does not infringe petitioner's patents and whether petitioner, as a Black and/or Africa… |
| 23-714 |
Bobby Len Franklin v. BWD Properties 2, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure concealment discovery discovery-concealment fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct land-patent officers-of-court patent-rights standing |
1. In 2006 onto 2008, did the named officers of the
court in the district court jointly perpetrate fraud on
the court to conceal petitioner Franklin's… |
| 23-681 |
Diamond J. Wholesale, LLC, dba Gabsons Novelties v. Top Tobacco, L.P., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure corporate-liability individual-liability knowing-violation lanham-act mark-misuse statutory-interpretation threshold-of-significance trademark-infringement |
The Lanham Act sets up a two-tiered penalty regime for cases involving counterfeit marks depending on whether the use of those marks was knowing. Whil… |
| 23-607 |
Morris S. Glover v. Daniel E. Cohen, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
|
bias case-document court-filing due-process legal-document patent-infringement petition prejudice pro-se scotus summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 23-574 |
Traxcell Technologies, LLC v. Sprint Communications Company LP, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-285 attorney-fees attorneys-fees claim-baselessness exceptional-case final-ruling litigation-conduct magistrate-ruling patent-infringement |
1. Where petitioner's patent infringement claims were not finally rejected until the district court judge approved the Magistrate Judge's ruling dispo… |
| 23-575 |
Fleur Tehrani v. Hamilton Technologies LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-103 federal-circuit obviousness patent patent-invalidation patent-law posita prior-art |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred by declaring a non-expert as a POSITA despite all the evidence presented to the contrary… |
| 23-565 |
Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
|
attorneys-fees circuit-split copyright copyright-act-section-505 copyright-law discretion judicial-discretion kirtsaeng-standard kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley prevailing-party |
What is the appropriate standard for awarding attorneys' fees to a prevailing party under Section 505 of the Copyright Act? |
| 23-498 |
Realtime Data LLC, dba IXO v. Fortinet, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea computer-functioning data-compression federal-circuit patent patent-claims patent-eligibility section-101 standing |
Whether the claimed inventions are ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to Section 101. |
| 23-494 |
MacNeil IP LLC v. Yita LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference appellate-procedure fact-finding judicial-review patent patent-law remand standard-of-review |
In the case below, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a Final Written Decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board b… |
| 23-474 |
Hearst Newspapers, L.L.C., et al. v. Antonio Martinelli |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
17-usc-507(b) civil-claims civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-law discovery-rule judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations |
Whether the "discovery rule" applies to the
Copyright Act's statute of limitations for civil claims.
17 U.S.C. 507(b). |
| 23-430 |
Richard R. Finch v. Harry Wayne Casey, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
|
co-authorship copyright-act declaratory-relief discovery-accrual discovery-accrual-rule statute-of-limitations termination-of-transfer |
Whether a time-barred assertion of sole authorship status by one co-author may, under the discovery accrual rule, form the basis for a statute of limi… |
| 23-421 |
Alfonso Cioffi, et al. v. Google LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-251 embodiment-standard federal-circuit original-patent patent patent-disclosure patent-law patent-reissue reissue statutory-interpretation u.s.-industrial-chemicals |
1. Should the Antares Pharma, Inc. v. Medac Pharma Inc., 771 F.3d 1354, 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2014) "exact embodiment" standard for "original patent" disclo… |
| 23-386 |
Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. v. Epic Systems Corporation |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
avoided-costs civil-procedure damages due-process economic-harm federal-courts legal-damages punitive-damages trade-secret trade-secrets unjust-enrichment |
1. Whether avoided costs are available as unjust enrichment damages where they both do not reflect any actual benefit obtained by the defendant and th… |
| 23-347 |
Rowland J. Martin, Jr. v. Edward Bravenec, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights judicial-review micro-entity micro-entity-inventor patent-franchise patent-law patent-office purchase-money-lien quiet-title quiet-title-relief removal-proceeding slapp-suit |
In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Court said "Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it." Before the Court is a nove… |
| 23-340 |
Alejandro Evaristo Perez v. The Walt Disney Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
|
copyright-holder copyright-infringement federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct monopolies-restricting-trade pro-se-litigation procedural-violations rossi-v-motion-picture-association-of-america trade-restriction us-code-title-15 us-code-title-17 |
The question is "Whether conspiring against and failing to defend a copyright holder in his own Federal Jurisdiction is a violation of US Code Title 1… |
| 23-315 |
VirnetX Inc. v. Mangrove Partners Master Fund, Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
america-invents-act article-iii commissioner-for-patents director-review federal-vacancies-reform-act inter-partes-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-time-limit |
This petition concerns the Federal Circuit's construction of two important statutes: the America Invents Act ("AIA") and the Federal Vacancies Reform … |
| 23-299 |
ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Citrix Systems, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation copyright due-process exclusive-right inventor-protection patent patent-rights standing state-action statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common … |
| 23-300 |
ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Microsoft Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 congressional-power constitutional-rights copyright-clause exclusive-right fourteenth-amendment inventor-protection patent-clause patent-ownership sherman-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether "the exclusive Right" in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege separate from common … |
| 23-306 |
The TriZetto Group, Inc., et al. v. Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Limited, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
actual-loss avoided-costs circuit-split damages defend-trade-secrets-act federal-statute misappropriation trade-secrets unjust-enrichment |
Whether a plaintiff may seek avoided costs as a measure of unjust-enrichment damages if and only if the plaintiff has suffered a "compensable harm bey… |
| 23-245 |
ChromaDex, Inc., et al. v. Elysium Health, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alice-mayo-framework alice-v-cls-bank biotechnology federal-circuit inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus natural-phenomena patent-eligibility |
Whether the two-step Alice/Mayo framework governs the eligibility of patents allegedly directed to natural phenomena. |
| 23-241 |
Joe Salazar v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
|
claim-construction due-process fifth-amendment investment-backed-expectations judicial-taking patent patent-rights property-rights takings takings-clause |
Where the Federal Circuit Panel's construction of petitioner's patent claim was unforesee able and unjustifiable under the circuit's prior decisions, … |
| 23-228 |
Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. |
California |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertising brand-logos celebrity-persona celebrity-rights commercial-speech commercial-use lanham-act motion-picture trademark-infringement |
Does the Lanham Act properly prohibit the unauthorized use of a celebrity's persona advertising third party brands with logos in a commercial motion p… |
| 23-230 |
Personalized Media Communication, LLC v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
docket-management due-process equitable-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-office patent-prosecution patent-validity prosecution-laches statutory-deadlines |
1. Whether prosecution laches can be based on an applicant's prosecution of a patent application in compliance with the PTO's docket-management decisi… |
| 23-194 |
Trendily Furniture, LLC, et al. v. Jason Scott Collection, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
consumer-confusion intentional-copying lanham-act pass-off product-design secondary-meaning trade-dress |
Whether, and to what extent, a competitor's intentional copying alone —without any intent to confuse consumers or pass off its products as plaintiff's… |
| 23-185 |
HIP, Inc. v. Hormel Foods Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-116 conception-standard federal-circuit federal-circuit-interpretation joint-invention joint-inventorship patent patent-claim patent-inventorship patent-specification statutory-construction |
1. Whether joint inventorship requires anything more than a contribution to conception that is stated in a patent claim.
2. Whether, under Section 11… |
| 23-190 |
Probir K. Bondyopadhyay v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment government-liability jurisdictional-conflict patent patent-claim perjury sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings |
A serious legal conflict has developed between the
USCFC and U.S. District Court involving Title 28
U.S.C. Section 1338(a) and Title 28 U.S.C. Section… |
| 23-135 |
Intel Corporation, et al. v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-and-trademark-office patent-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d), which bars judicial review of "[t]he determination ... whether to institute an inter partes review," applies even when no … |
| 23-141 |
Rowland J. Martin, Jr., Individually and as Administrator to the Estate of Johnnie Mae King v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-jurisdiction remand removal removal-action statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Before the Court is a novel case and controversy involving a patent related conflict of laws. The case was removed from state court after the expirati… |
| 23-84 |
Jermaine Jevon Howard v. Shawn Jay-Z Carter |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-duty business-ventures civil-procedure copyright-infringement defamation legal-duty pseudonym-authorship songwriter-rights songwriting-compensation |
The schedule of a phenomenal, superstar U.S. Rapper and Executive has to be a tiring, stressful one. Stress and loss of rest has to intensify with the… |
| 23-67 |
Springboards to Education, Inc. v. McAllen Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby circuit-split consumer-confusion consumer-definition fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard likelihood-of-confusion matsushita-v-zenith summary-judgment trademark-infringement |
1. Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment because no reasonable jury could return a verdict in favor of the non-moving party… |
| 23-68 |
Springboards to Education, Inc. v. Mission Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment trademark trademark-law |
1. Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment because no reasonable jury could return a verdict in favor of the non-moving party… |
| 23-63 |
San Diego County Credit Union v. Citizens Equity First Credit Union |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
|
15-usc-1119 cardinal-chemical circuit-split invalidity jurisdiction non-infringement patent-and-trademark-office summary-judgment trademark-cancellation trademark-disputes trademark-law |
Question 1:
In trademark disputes, the alleged infringing party often seeks declarations that the mark of the opposing party (i) is not infringed and … |
| 23-15 |
Springboards to Education, Inc. v. IDEA Public Schools |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion legal-standard legal-standards summary-judgment trademark-infringement |
1. Whether the legal reasoning used to evaluate the issue of trademark infringement was subjective, incomplete, and failed to address the record and t… |
| 22-1249 |
Foremost Title & Escrow Services, LLC v. FCOA, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof circuit-split consumer-confusion incontestable incontestable-mark lanham-act presumption trademark trademark-law |
Under 15 U.S.C. § 1065, certain trademarks are incontestable. All Circuits considering the issue, except the Eleventh, do not presume that an incontes… |
| 22-1220 |
Jeffrey A. Killian v. Katherine K. Vidal, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-doctrine alice-mayo-test due-process federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 uspto |
I. Have the numerous departures of the Supreme Court's Alice/Mayo jurisprudence by the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit (hereinafter "the Feder… |
| 22-1126 |
In Re Dorothy M. Hartman |
|
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering government-overreach intellectual-property judicial-misconduct patent-rights separation-of-powers |
1) Should Judges of Appellate Courts have the right to ignore, manipulate, or even destroy evidence in cases pending before them in support of the Fed… |
| 22-1078 |
Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al. v. Sherman Nealy, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15) |
17-usc-507-b civil-action civil-actions copyright copyright-act copyright-law judicial-review retrospective-relief statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Copyright Act's statute of limitations for civil actions, 17 U.S.C. 507(b), precludes retrospective relief for acts that occurred more tha… |
| 22-1066 |
CareDx Inc., et al. v. Natera, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-101 medical-diagnostics method-patent natural-phenomenon patent-eligibility patent-infringement prior-art scientific-innovation section-101 statutory-interpretation |
Congress has provided that any "new and useful process" is eligible for patent protection, and that "any new and useful improvement thereof" is also e… |
| 22-1053 |
ABKCO Music, Inc., et al. v. William Sagan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
bootleg-recordings commercial-exploitation contributory-infringement copyright-infringement digital-distribution direct-liability music-licensing secondary-liability vicarious-liability |
Whether direct liability for copyright infringement is limited to the person who actually "presses the button" to make the infringing copies. |
| 22-1020 |
H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. v. Unicolors, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-knowledge civil-action copyright-act copyright-act-1976 copyright-infringement copyright-registration intent-to-defraud knowledge-standard scienter statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 411(b)(1)(A)'s "knowledge" element requires "actual knowledge," as this Court held, or "intent to defraud," as the Ninth Circuit held on rem… |
| 22-1001 |
NST Global, LLC, dba SB Tactical v. Sig Sauer Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent-construction patent-preamble patent-validity |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit's affirmance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision that results from the Board's sua sponte construction of a… |
| 22-970 |
James H. Griffith, Jr., dba CJ's Sports Bar, et al. v. Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
|
copyright-act copyright-infringement de-novo-review exclusive-licensing idea-of-work licensing-rights right-to-sue sua-sponte summary-judgment tangible-medium |
I. Whether the plain language of the U.S. Copyright Act ("Act") authorizes the exclusive licensing of rights under the Act in an idea of a work of aut… |
| 22-930 |
ESET, LLC, et al. v. Finjan LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-interpretation claim-term-definition conflicting-definitions definiteness federal-circuit-precedent incorporation-by-reference inventor-lexicography patent-claim-construction patent-definiteness patentee-lexicography teva-v-sandoz |
1. In a case of first impression for this Court, where a patentee expressly defines a claim term, may the Federal Circuit disregard its decades-old pr… |
| 22-927 |
Nike, Inc. v. Adidas AG, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-316 america-invents-act claim-construction inter-partes-review patent-holder patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board prior-art substitute-claims |
Whether, in inter partes review, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board may raise sua sponte a new ground of unpatentability—including prior art that the p… |
| 22-925 |
Fall Line Patents, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC, fka Unified Patents, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acting-official acting-officials agency-delegation federal-vacancies-reform-act inter-partes-review patent-and-trademark-office patent-trial-and-appeal-board presidentially-appointed-senate-confirmed succession-plan |
The question presented is the same as that in Arthrex Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., Arthrocare Corp; and United States of America, No. 22-639 (filed J… |
| 22-919 |
Stephen Thaler v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
artificial-intelligence innovation-rights invention inventor inventor-definition patent patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the Patent Act categorically restrict the statutory term "inventor" to human beings alone? |
| 22-873 |
Ingenio, Inc., et al. v. Click-to-Call Technologies LP |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
america-invents-act estoppel federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent-law statutory-interpretation |
This case is the sister case to the inter partes review ("IPR") considered by this Court in Thryv, Inc v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP, 140 S. Ct. 1… |
| 22-822 |
Avery Dennison Corporation v. ADASA Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-101 binary-encoding most-significant-bits patent-claim patent-eligibility rfid rfid-technology section-101 serial-number |
Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) tags are encoded with lengthy serial numbers that uniquely identify particular items. The patent at issue… |
| 22-819 |
Franz Wakefield, dba CoolTVNetwork.com v. Blackboard, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard magistrate-judge markman-test patent patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation |
35 U.S.C. § 282(a) provides that "[a] patent shall be presumed valid." This Court has ruled that when a court reviews validity of a patent, the presum… |
| 22-803 |
Virentem Ventures, LLC v. Google LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-construction due-process federal-circuit patent patent-invalidity ptab ptab-determination rule-36 |
1. Does the Federal Circuit's use of Rule 36 to affirm without opinion PTAB invalidity determinations that are challenged based on pure questions of l… |
| 22-794 |
Eurica Califorrniaa v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abortion civil-rights dobbs-v-jackson due-process patent-law patent-term roe-v-wade specification-claims unborn-rights vuitch vuitch-precedent |
1. Whether United States v. Vuitch, 402 U.S. 62 (1971), should be overruled in favor of equality with the unborn?
2. Whether 37 C.F.R. § 1.704(c)(10)… |
| 22-784 |
Aaron G. Filler v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment-rights casualty-loss civil-rights constitutional-taking due-process patent patent-protection patent-seizure standing state-liability takings tax-deduction |
When a State (herein California) knowingly intentionally and with malice aforethought seizes and commences producing goods clearly protected by a U.S.… |
| 22-704 |
Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Steve Elster |
Federal Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8) |
first-amendment free-speech government-official public-figure registration section-1052c trademark trademark-registration |
Whether the refusal to register a mark under Section 1052(c) violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment when the mark contains criticism o… |
| 22-671 |
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. HEC Pharm Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
28-usc-46 appellate-procedure case-law judicial-administration judicial-review panel-composition patent-law statutory-interpretation written-description |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 46 and principles of sound judicial administration preclude a court of appeals from adding a new judge to form a new panel and … |
| 22-639 |
Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
acting-official agency-delegation director-review-authority federal-vacancies-reform-act inter-partes-review patent-and-trademark-office standing succession-plan |
Whether the Commissioner for Patents' exercise of
the Director's authority pursuant to an internal agency
delegation violated the Federal Vacancies Re… |
| 22-604 |
Garth Janke v. Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
3d-printing gottschalk-v-benson mathematical-model parker-v-flook patent-eligibility patent-law patent-monopoly product-preemption |
Can a known patentable product become ineligible for patenting when it is claimed to be made by applying a mathematical model of the product on a 3D p… |
| 22-559 |
Victor Elias Photography, LLC v. Ice Portal, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act intentional-removal legal-standing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a plaintiff alleging a violation of § 1202(b) is required to demonstrate that the defendant's "intentional[] remov[al] or alter[ation]" of CMI… |
| 22-552 |
Camellia Grill Holdings, Inc. v. Grill Holdings, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split contractual-terms due-process due-process-clause exxon-mobil inextricably-intertwined intellectual-property property-rights rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine |
1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split in the wake of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005) and elucid… |
| 22-544 |
Innovation Sciences, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-102 anticipation anticipatory-reference clear-and-convincing clear-and-convincing-evidence invention patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity prior-art |
In Washburn & Moen Mfg. Co. v. Beat 'Em All Barbed-Wire Co., 143 U.S. 275 (1892) (also known as "Barbed Wire Patent"), the Court found the burden to e… |
| 22-531 |
Alan Wofsy, et al. v. Vincent Sicre de Fontbrune, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Yves Sicre de Fontbrune, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split copyright-infringement creativity fair-use first-fair-use-factor originality-standard reproduction-rights scholarly-work third-fair-use-factor |
Petitioner Alan Wofsy reproduced documentary photographs of Pablo Picasso's artwork for inclusion in a comprehensive, annotated series of reference bo… |
| 22-483 |
Paige Lee, et al. v. Anthony Lawrence Collection, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure federal-rules infringement joinder licensing nonparty-joinder rule-19 standing trademark trademark-joinder trademark-licensing |
Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 19(a), the joinder of IP owners/licensors as plaintiffs alongside licensees is required to prevent double recov… |
| 22-416 |
Tuhin Kumar Biswas v. Ethan Rouen, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
|
42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 appeal appellate-review copyright-act federal-cause-of-action first-amendment plagiarism state-actor |
1. Is Copyright Act the only Federal Cause of Action under which Plagiarism can be adjudicated?
2. Whether Columbia University and related parties ca… |
| 22-397 |
Maria Solange Ferrarini v. Ipek Irgit, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
|
17-usc-507b civil-procedure claim-accrual copyright-infringement federal-circuit-split judicial-interpretation laches laches-doctrine petrella-v-mgm statute-of-limitations |
Whether the judge-made laches-like ownership claim accrual test applies to bar a copyright infringement suit brought within the three-year look-back p… |
| 22-381 |
Ashot Yegiazaryan, aka Ashot Egiazaryan v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1) |
business-reputation civil-rico court-judgment domestic-injury foreign-injury foreign-plaintiff intangible-property legal-test patent |
In RJR Nabisco, this Court, applying the presumption against extraterritoriality, held that a civil RICO plaintiff states a cognizable claim under RIC… |
| 22-347 |
Diece-Lisa Industries, Inc. v. Disney Store USA, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
GVR |
Response Requested |
expressive-work first-amendment intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion reverse-confusion trademark-infringement trademark-law |
1. Does the First Amendment provide an infringer blanket immunity for trademark infringement across all categories of goods so long as they can claim … |
| 22-316 |
Lodestar Anstalt v. Bacardi & Company Limited, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
consumer-confusion lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion section-45 trademark-enforcement trademark-infringement unfair-competition use-in-commerce |
Whether a plaintiff in a trademark enforcement action must prove that each use of its mark meets Section 45 of the Lanham Act's "use in commerce" defi… |
| 22-298 |
Jump Rope Systems, LLC v. Coulter Ventures, LLC, dba Rogue Fitness |
Federal Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
collateral-estoppel federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-law patent-validity preclusion-doctrine restatement-of-judgments |
Whether, as a matter of federal patent law, a determination of unpatentability by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an inter partes review proceedi… |
| 22-284 |
Gary Frisby, pka G-Money v. Sony Music Entertainment, dba RCA Records, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisprudence appellate-procedure case-consolidation copyright-infringement judicial-review musical-composition procedural-error sound-recording subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power |
This Petition involves tw o consolidated copyright infringement cases (Case 1712 and Case 4167) regarding a hip-hop "beat track," i.e., the background… |
| 22-228 |
In Re Urvashi Bhagat |
|
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-immunity bad-faith damages federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus patent-examination patent-rights takings takings-claim |
1. Whether the District Court abused discretion and obstructed justice in denying the existence of arguments and facts recited in the complaint refusi… |
| 22-229 |
In Re Brian D. Swanson |
|
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
|
17th-amendment administrative-law article-5 article-five
22-228" article-five-consent constitutional-interpretation constitutional-ratification equal-suffrage federal-question-jurisdiction georgia judicial-discretion patent-rights popular-elections senate-elections senate-representation seventeenth-amendment state-consent subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-claim Whether the District Court abused discretion in di |
1. Does the Seventeenth Amendment deprive the
State of Georgia of its equal suffrage in the
Senate, requiring its consent under Article 5 of
the Co… |
| 22-203 |
Apple Inc., et al. v. California Institute of Technology |
Federal Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-process civil-procedure federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit erroneously extended
IPR estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) to all grounds
that reasonably could have been raised in the… |
| 22-198 |
Ayse Sen v. Amazon.com, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure commercial-exploitation due-process exclusion-right exclusive-use lanham-act property-rights trademark-rights |
1) Under the US Constitutional property rights and Lanham Act provisions to "exclusive use", does Amazon.com, Inc or any other third parties have the … |
| 22-148 |
Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (30) |
brand-recognition commercial-speech commercial-use dilution-by-tarnishment first-amendment lanham-act noncommercial-use trademark-infringement |
1. Whether humorous use of another's trademark as one's own on a commercial product is subject to the Lanham Act's traditional likelihood-of-confusion… |
| 22-121 |
ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3) |
breach-of-contract business circuit-split content-protection contract contract-remedies copyright copyright-preemption preemption service-terms state-law |
Does the Copyright Act's preemption clause allow a business to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use… |
| 22-53 |
Aaron G. Filler, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
assignment-of-claims assignment-of-claims-act civil-procedure fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation patent patent-infringement patent-rights takings |
For a Patent infringed by the United States, where Patent rights are divided between two related parties – one having the right to sue and the other h… |
| 22-37 |
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (5) |
active-inducement fda-approval generic-drug generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act inducement-doctrine patent-infringement skinny-label |
If a generic drug's FDA-approved label carves out all of the language that the brand manufacturer has identified as covering its patented uses, can th… |
| 22-38 |
CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1404a federal-circuit jurisdictional-limits mandamus patent-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-transfer writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Federal Circuit, a court with limited jurisdiction that includes cases "arising under" patent law, also has subject matter jurisdiction ov… |
| 22-35 |
Yufan Zhang v. UnitedHealth Group, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment arbitration burden-of-proof due-process employment-termination equal-protection evidence-destruction intellectual-property |
In this case, the evidence Zhang used to have as proof of his claims was taken away and destroyed by UnitedHealth Group at time Zhang was fired becaus… |
| 22-26 |
Larry G. Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commercial-offer contract-law federal-circuit on-sale-bar patent-infringement patent-invalidation prior-art standing third-party-quotation |
May a price quotation invoke the on-sale bar when made by a third party who had no right to sell the invention and with no involvement by the patentee… |
| 22-22 |
David A. Tropp v. Travel Sentry, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1) |
35-usc-101 alice-test alice-v-cls-bank computer-processing luggage-screening patent-claims patent-eligibility physical-steps |
Whether the claims at issue in Tropp's patents reciting physical rather than computer-processing steps are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101, as i… |
| 22-11 |
SawStop Holding LLC v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 35-usc-102 35-usc-103 judicial-authority non-statutory-double-patenting patent patent-eligibility patent-law statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
The Patent Act adopted by Congress provides that a person shall be entitled to a patent if an invention meets three conditions: the eligibility condit… |
| 21-1603 |
Canada Hockey, L.L.C., dba Epic Sports, et al. v. Texas A&M University Athletic Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-violation copyright-infringement due-process federal-remedies knick-v-township-of-scott state-sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause united-states-v-georgia |
After this Court's decision in Allen v. Cooper, 140 S. Ct. 994 (2020), damages remedies for copyright infringements by state governments depend on eit… |
| 21-1567 |
Biogen International GmbH, et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
35-usc-112 effective-dose efficacy-requirement federal-circuit multiple-sclerosis patent patent-law patent-specification statutory-interpretation written-description |
Is 35 U.S.C. § 112's requirement that a patent specification "contain a written description of the invention" met when the specification describes the… |
| 21-1566 |
Juno Therapeutics, Inc., et al. v. Kite Pharma, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
35-usc-112(a) enablement federal-circuit invention-scope inventor-possession patent patent-law patent-specification statutory-interpretation written-description |
Section 112(a) of Title 35, United States Code, requires that a patent include a "specification," which "shall contain a written description of the in… |
| 21-1554 |
Worlds Inc. v. Activision Blizzard Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea filtering patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility section-101 software-invention summary-judgment well-known-routine-conventional |
In the mid-1990s, petitioner Worlds invented computer software with protocols that allowed an increased number of players to access a three-dimensiona… |
| 21-1535 |
David Lowery v. Benjamin Joffe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
class-action copyright cy-pres first-amendment google-litigation privacy-rights rule-23 settlement-fairness standing |
1. Whether, or in what circumstances, a cy pres award that provides no direct relief or benefit to class members comports with the Rule 23(e) requirem… |
| 21-1527 |
CustomPlay, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-rights patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation trademark |
1. Whether the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) violated the statutory text and legislative intent of the America Invents Act (AIA) by delegating the… |
| 21-1526 |
Gilbert P. Hyatt v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure federal-circuit judicial-review mandamus-standard patent patent-office-rule standing summary-judgment |
1. Whether the ordinary summary judgment
standard of Rule 56 applies to review of agency action,
as held by the First, Fifth, Ninth, and District of C… |
| 21-1519 |
Joe Gregory Carlini v. Paramount Pictures Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
copyright copyright-infringement expert-opinion extrinsic-test fact-finder inverse-ratio-rule pleading-stage pleadings-stage selection-and-arrangement substantial-similarity |
1. Whether the district court and Ninth Circuit erred in applying the extrinsic test for substantial similarity by "filter[ing] out" elements that the… |
| 21-1458 |
EPA Drug Initiative II v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-doctrine hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-proceedings patent-invalidation patent-invalidity standing supervisory-power third-party-intervention |
Under this Court's Rule 10(a), certiorari can be granted where a United States court of appeals has so far departed from the accepted and usual course… |
| 21-1370 |
Spireon, Inc. v. Procon Analytics, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction fact-question federal-circuit judicial-exception patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility pleadings |
1. What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is "directed to" a patent-ineligible concept under step 1 of the Court's tw… |
| 21-1327 |
Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated |
Federal Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
article-iii article-three-standing inter-partes-review license-agreement medimmune patent-challenge patent-validity qualcomm-dispute standing |
This case presents the same question as Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc., No. 21-746 (U.S.) ("Apple I"), in which the Court recently called for the views o… |
| 21-1299 |
Nicholas D. Scoyni v. Daniel R. Salvador, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-recusal procedural-rules recuse service-mark service-marks takings-clause trademarks |
1. Does the district court have the right to adjudicate an intellectual property case without addressing parties' pleas, disregarding legal precedence… |
| 21-1281 |
Interactive Wearables, LLC v. Polar Electro Oy, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction enablement judicial-exceptions legal-standard patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 two-step-framework |
The patents-in-suit are directed to an electronic hardware device comprising a content player/remote-control combination having numerous concretely-re… |
| 21-1264 |
Larry Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split consumer-confusion hearsay-evidence lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion non-disparagement precedent trademark-infringement trademark-law |
1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err by failing to apply the "appreciable number of consumers" standard to the "l… |
| 21-1267 |
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
civil-procedure damages egregious-conduct federal-circuit halo-electronics judicial-discretion patent patent-damages statutory-interpretation willful-infringement |
(1) Whether enhanced damages under 35 U.S.C. § 284 may be awarded absent a finding of egregious infringement behavior; and
(2) Whether the court of a… |
| 21-1228 |
Ameranth, Inc. v. Olo, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 alice-framework alice-two-step claim-construction judicial-exception patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-ineligible-concept question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 |
This computer-based patent infringement case presents the same questions pending before the Court in American Axle & Mfg, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC,… |
| 21-1217 |
Columbia House of Brokers Realty, Inc., dba House of Brokers, Inc., dba Jackie Bulgin & Associates, et al. v. Designworks Homes, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
architectural-works copyright copyright-law infringement marketing marketing-materials pictorial-representation pictorial-representations real-estate real-estate-industry statutory-interpretation |
Whether floor plans constitute "pictures, paintings, photographs, or other pictorial representations" of an architectural work within the meaning of 1… |
| 21-1196 |
Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd. v. Peermusic Ltd., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure copyright-infringement extrinsic-intrinsic-test musical-works ordinary-observer-test substantial-similarity |
in a copyright infringement case, when deciding whether two musical works are substantially similar, should the courts apply the ordinary observer tes… |
| 21-1106 |
Thaddeus Gabara v. Facebook, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea data-structure patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption prior-art section-101 two-step-framework |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is "directed to" a patent-ineligible concept under step 1 of the Court's two-s… |
| 21-1085 |
Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
convenience convenience-standard forum-non-conveniens judicial-discretion mandamus patent-rights statutory-venue transfer venue venue-transfer |
Ikorongo Technology LLC and Ikorongo Texas LLC have separate ownership and geographically divided patent rights that were infringed by Samsung, LG, an… |
| 21-1093 |
PersonalWeb Technologies LLC v. Google LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-eligibility patent-law technical-field |
1. How should courts determine whether a patent for a computer-implemented invention is patent-eligible because it "improve[s] the functioning of the … |
| 21-1056 |
Universal Secure Registry LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test federal-circuit patent-act patent-eligibility section-101 specificity unconventionality unexpected-results |
Does patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 require "specificity," "unexpected results" and "unconventionality," in conflict with the Patent Act and… |
| 21-1043 |
Abitron Austria GmbH, et al. v. Hetronic International, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (14) |
civil-procedure extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality foreign-sales lanham-act territorial-rights trademark trademark-infringement u.s.-commerce us-commerce |
Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the Lanham Act extraterritorially to petitioners' foreign sales, including purely foreign sales that ne… |
| 21-1037 |
Steve Wilson Briggs v. James Cameron, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9th-circuit civil-procedure copyright-law due-process judicial-accountability judicial-interpretation judicial-system legal-authorities shell-corporations standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, by disregarding properly established U.S. authorities (Corpus Juris Secundum, C.J.S.), to surreptitiously create its own copyright law sys… |
| 21-1036 |
Gamon Plus, Inc. v. Campbell Soup Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appointments-clause arthrex-precedent federal-circuit judicial-remand patent-law patent-review rehearing-petition remand separation-of-powers |
1. Whether this Court should vacate the judgment below in view of its recent decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1970 (2021), and r… |
| 21-1005 |
Heat On-The-Fly, LLC, et al. v. Energy Heating, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court-discretion exceptional-case litigation-misconduct patent patent-litigation |
Must a district court consider litigation misconduct, or lack thereof, in determining whether a case is exceptional under 35 U.S.C. § 285? |
| 21-893 |
Apotex Inc., et al. v. Cephalon, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-103 drug-reformulation inventive-process ksr-v-teleflex motivation motivation-to-combine obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-law person-of-ordinary-skill prior-art |
Whether claimed inventions involving reformulating and administering an old drug in ways that are no better than prior techniques, and which had been … |
| 21-888 |
Intel Corporation v. VLSI Technology LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-rule agency-rulemaking arbitrary-or-capricious federal-circuit inter-partes-review leahy-smith-act leahy-smith-america-invents-act notice-and-comment-rulemaking patent patent-review |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denyin… |
| 21-869 |
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Lynn Goldsmith, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (41) |
artistic-intent copyright copyright-law fair-use judicial-interpretation meaning message second-circuit source-material transformative transformative-work |
Whether a work of art is "transformative" when it conveys a different meaning or message from its source material (as this Court, the Ninth Circuit, a… |
| 21-833 |
David Louis Whitehead v. Traveler's Insurance Company, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
|
attorney-general circuit-court civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process injunctive-relief judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus-writ recusal standing |
Whether the Second Circuit Court had jurisdiction to hear the case: appeal or writ of mandamus.
Whether the Second Circuit Court erred in denying to … |
| 21-819 |
Baxter Corporation Englewood v. Becton, Dickinson and Company |
Federal Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act expert-testimony inter-partes-review ordinary-remand-rule patent patent-challenge prior-art remand-rule statutory-interpretation |
A petitioner may challenge an issued patent in an inter partes review (IPR) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, an agency tribunal, but "only on… |
| 21-811 |
Yanbin Yu, et al. v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-construction diamond-v-diehr federal-circuit mayo-test mayo-v-prometheus parker-v-flook patent-claim patent-claims patent-eligibility point-of-novelty |
Whether, when applying the test for patent eligibility set forth in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U.S. 66 (2012), … |
| 21-812 |
WhitServe LLC v. Dropbox, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 enablement patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 section-101 technological-improvement |
1. If a patentee makes factual assertions and provides supporting evidence that its claimed invention is directed to patent-eligible subject matter un… |
| 21-757 |
Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (33)Response Requested |
35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-scope enablement enablement-requirement invention-disclosure judicial-review patent patent-law statutory-interpretation undue-experimentation written-description |
1. Whether enablement is "a question of fact to be determined by the jury," Wood v. Underhill, 46 U.S. (5 How.) 1, 4 (1846), as this Court has held, o… |
| 21-746 |
Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (5) |
article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process inter-partes-review license-agreement patent patent-challenge patent-validity standing takings |
Whether a licensee has Article III standing to challenge the validity of a patent covered by a license agreement that covers multiple patents. |
| 21-735 |
Jim Olive Photography, dba Photolive, Inc. v. University of Houston System |
Texas |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
cedar-point-nursery copyright-infringement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-appropriation right-to-exclude takings-clause |
In the decision below, the Supreme Court of Texas rejected the argument that copyright infringement by a government entity appropriates "the right to … |
| 21-711 |
Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. v. Hasbro, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
1909-act 1976-act copyright copyright-law copyright-ownership employer-employee independent-contractor statutory-interpretation work-for-hire |
Whether a party that commissions a work from an independent contractor qualifies as the creator's "employer" within the meaning of the Copyright Act o… |
| 21-691 |
FG SRC LLC v. Microsoft Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review arthrex-ruling civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-circuit gvr-order patent standing summary-decision takings |
This petition seeks only a Grant, Vacate, and Remand (GVR) Order.
This petition seeks a GVR Order regarding two judgments by the Court of Appeals for… |
| 21-660 |
Freelancer International Pty Limited, et al. v. Upwork Global, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
counterfeit-mark fair-use fair-use-defense irreparable-harm preliminary-injunction retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-law |
For at least a decade, the petitioner has been using the registered and now-incontestable trademark "Freelancer" in commerce with various goods and se… |
| 21-530 |
Thomas C. Donald v. James P. Kimberley, et ux. |
Alabama |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
boundary-lines due-process federal-land-patent land-patent land-survey property-law public-land real-property-law supremacy-clause title-43-usc-752 |
When the United States conveys ownership of public land to a person, it does so with a land patent in which the conveyed land is described by the Sect… |
| 21-540 |
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso |
Indiana |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
claim-scope exclusive-jurisdiction federal-circuit federal-patent-law gunn-v-minton jurisdictional-split patent-jurisdiction patent-validity state-court-adjudication state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a dispute raises substantial issues of federal patent law when its resolution necessarily depends on patent-law determinations regarding claim… |
| 21-513 |
Australian Leather Pty. Ltd., et al. v. Deckers Outdoor Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
english-speaking-countries foreign-equivalents generic-term primary-significance registration-standard trademark-cancellation trademark-law trademark-protection |
1. Whether a term that is generic in the English-speaking foreign country from which it originated is ineligible for trademark protection in the Unite… |
| 21-457 |
ENCO Systems, Inc. v. DaVincia, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit patent patent-claim patent-eligibility patent-protection patent-system section-101 |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is directed to a patent-ineligible concept when determining whether an inventi… |
| 21-438 |
Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
appellate-review claim-construction infringement jury-trial jury-verdict patent patent-law seventh-amendment sua-sponte |
Whether the Seventh Amendment allows the Federal Circuit to reverse a jury verdict based on a sua sponte new claim construction of a term the district… |
| 21-417 |
Sulzer Mixpac AG v. A&N Trading Company, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Requested |
circuit-split functionality intellectual-property lanham-act legal-interpretation product-features product-functionality trademark-protection utility |
Whether any degree of utility categorically renders a product feature functional and thus ineligible for federal trademark protection under the Lanham… |
| 21-415 |
Carmen Electra, et al. v. 59 Murray Enterprises, Inc., dba New York Dolls Gentlemen's Club, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
|
celebrity commercial-identity commercial-interest false-advertising identity-misuse image-rights lanham-act legal-standing public-prominence trademark-misuse |
Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(1), creates a civil action in favor of "any person who believes he or she is likely to be damaged… |
| 21-413 |
Infinity Computer Products, Inc. v. Oki Data Americas, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-interpretation definiteness-standard expert-testimony indefiniteness patent patent-law patent-specification person-skilled-in-the-art prosecution-history |
Whether a patent claim is indefinite under § 112, ¶ 2, if conflicting positions about a claim term arise during the patent prosecution process, even i… |
| 21-406 |
Impax Laboratories, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
antitrust antitrust-law competition-law patent patent-infringement patent-litigation patent-settlement patent-strength patent-validity reverse-payment |
Because settlement agreements that permit a "generic manufacturer to enter [a] patentee's market prior to the patent's expiration" increase competitio… |
| 21-384 |
Moreh J. Buchanan v. Sony Music Entertainment Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access access-evidence copyright-infringement demonstration-songs dissemination entertainment-lawyer intellectual-property music-industry unauthorized-copying will-smith |
Petitioner is a songwriter, music publisher, singer /rapper, artist/composer that wrote, produced and recorded 5 in particular original demo/demonstra… |
| 21-364 |
Sarada Mohapatra v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 alice-doctrine alice-mayo citizen-inventors computer-implemented-invention mayo-framework non-preemptive-solution patent patent-eligibility practical-solutions preemption process-improvement |
Whether computer-based process improvement by Citizen patent applications for inventions Inventors - characterized by narrow and well-defined practica… |
| 21-350 |
Infineum USA L.P. v. Chevron Oronite Company LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
GVR |
|
administrative-review appointments-clause certiorari-review federal-circuit federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-41 final-written-decision judicial-mandate mandate patent-proceedings united-states-v-arthrex |
1. Whether this Court should vacate the judgment below in view of its recent decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1970 (2021), and r… |
| 21-330 |
Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act antitrust-patent appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split due-process federal-circuit local-circuit mandamus patent-infringement supervisory-mandamus usurpation-of-duty |
Federal Circuit and eight United States circuit courts, the Supreme Court must revisit and settle the law and iterate the factors to be considered to … |
| 21-249 |
Probir Kumar Bondyopadhyay v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-claims government-taking invention-compensation national-defense patent patent-rights standing takings |
The question before the Honorable U.S. Supreme Court is on the recognition and affirmation of the Jeffersonian claim of an original creature of the U.… |
| 21-247 |
Coalition for Better Government, et al. v. Alliance for Good Government |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees chilling-effect commercial-speech fee-shifting first-amendment lanham-act non-commercial-speech political-speech |
1. Should this Court permit the Lanham Act to be extended to non-commercial political speech?
2. Should this Court permit the imposition of a sanctio… |
| 21-242 |
Desire, LLC v. Manna Textiles, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure common-source-defendant copyright copyright-infringement joint-and-several-liability joint-liability secondary-liability statutory-damages |
Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act provides "an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the action . . . for which any two or… |
| 21-209 |
Huping Hu, et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 intellectual-property judicial-exceptions natural-phenomenon operability-standard patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art quantum-entanglement reproducibility-of-results scientific-discovery section-101 |
Whether the PTO's varied standards, buttressed by the decisional law of the lower reviewing courts, for determining operability under § 101 are biased… |
| 21-212 |
Dires, LLC, dba Personal Touch Beds and Personal Comfort Beds, et al. v. Select Comfort Corporation, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
circuit-split consumer-confusion initial-interest-confusion internet-trademark-law likelihood-of-confusion online-advertising search-engine-results search-engines trademark-infringement |
Trademark infringement claims are intended to ensure consumers are not confused as to the source of goods; indeed, the consumers' best interests lie a… |
| 21-202 |
Mylan Laboratories Ltd. v. Janssen Pharmaceutica, N.V., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction inter-partes-review judicial-review nhk-fintiv-rule patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) categorically preclude appeal of all decisions not to institute inter partes review?
2. Is the NHK-Fintiv Rule substantive… |
| 21-195 |
Belmora LLC, et al. v. Bayer Consumer Care AG, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
false-advertising false-association lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-registration trademark-territoriality |
1. Whether, in view of the principle of trademark territoriality, the zone of interests encompassed by Lanham Act §§ 43(a) and 14(3) extends to the fo… |
| 21-193 |
Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accessibility patent patent-publication patent-statute printed-publication prior-art public-accessibility software software-disclosure trade-secret |
Can a document qualify as a printed publication if it is stored on a password-protected website, not accessible to the public, and available only to c… |
| 21-170 |
Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-112 35-usc-112f claim-construction federal-circuit indefiniteness nautilus-standard nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether a patent claim may be invalidated for indefiniteness only if, under 35 U.S.C. § 112, para. 2 (now subsection 112(b)) as construed by Nautilus,… |
| 21-125 |
Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights copyright criminal-conspiracy due-process racketeering rico |
Whether a Petitioner is entitled to a conservative summary judgement of 1 Billion dollars awarded after instructions on remand or another amount order… |
| 21-118 |
Apple Inc. v. Optis Cellular Technology, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act mandamus-petition patent patent-review uspto |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office denying … |
| 21-6 |
Lawrence Marano v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attribution commercial-use copyright-fair-use copyright-infringement fair-use licensing-market statutory-factors transformative-use |
1. Whether The Metropolitan Museum of Art's commercial use of a photograph on its Website to sell tickets to its museum exhibition, as well as in the … |
| 20-1829 |
Deafueh Monbo v. Eric Blair |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
|
bad-faith-filing bankruptcy bankruptcy-code chapter-7-bankruptcy copyright copyright-infringement discharge in-re-green-v-staples trademark trademark-infringement willful-and-malicious |
1. Question: Whether the Bankruptcy Court erred when the Bankruptcy Court failed to recognize that Section 523(a)(6) of the Bankruptcy Code prohibits … |
| 20-1809 |
VoIP-Pal.com, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 innovation innovation-incentives judicial-framework legal-uncertainty patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law patent-system statutory-interpretation subject-matter-eligibility |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim "directed to" a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two-st… |
| 20-1817 |
Ezaki Glico Kabushiki Kaisha, et al. v. Lotte International America Corp., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
alternative-designs circuit-split design-protection functionality lanham-act product-configuration summary-judgment trade-dress utility-patent |
The Lanham Act protects trade dress from unlawful copying. Trade dress includes a product's design, such as the red wax seal on a bottle of Maker's Ma… |
| 20-1760 |
iLife Technologies, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 claim-interpretation judicial-framework legal-standard patent patent-claim patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standard |
The questions presented are the same as those presented in the petition for a writ of certiorari filed in connection with American Axle & Manufacturin… |
| 20-1700 |
Ultratec, Inc. v. CaptionCall, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
5th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-validity retroactivity |
1. Does retroactive application of the inter partes review process violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 20-1680 |
ACI Information Group v. MidlevelU, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
copyright-infringement copyright-registration fair-use fraud implied-license internet-publication internet-publications statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate |
1. A party who uses a copyrightable work with the implied license of a copyright owner is not liable for infringement. Such a license can arise from i… |
| 20-1648 |
James H. Fischer v. Sandra F. Forrest, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Requested |
circuit-split copyright copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act licensing plain-text-interpretation |
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act protect s
the integrity of copyright management information
("CMI"), a defined term. 17 U.S.C. § 1202(c). Section… |
| 20-1652 |
Meghan Belaski, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confidential-information double-jeopardy fifth-amendment intellectual-property related-action securities-exchange-commission securities-law takings-clause whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Do the statutory rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in order
to qualify for whistleblower award, violate the Double Jeopardy Clause in t… |
| 20-1654 |
Sonos, Inc. v. Implicit, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response Requested |
administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause article-ii constitutional-law inferior-officers principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states |
Whether administrative patent judges are
"principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States
within the meaning of the Appointments Clause. |
| 20-1637 |
Janice Dickinson v. Ryan Seacrest Productions, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-malice defamation first-amendment lanham-act new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure rogers-test rogers-v-grimaldi |
Whether a defendant who willfully creates a false narrative about a public figure that is marketed to the public as a true story, for the intentional … |
| 20-1631 |
Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Implicit, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-21 |
GVR |
Response Requested |
administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-appointment officer-status patent-office principal-officers separation-of-powers us-patent-and-trademark-office |
Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offic… |
| 20-1612 |
Monib Zirvi, et al. v. Jay T. Flatley, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constructive-notice fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice intellectual-property misappropriation patent pleading-stage standing storm-warnings trade-secret trade-secret-misappropriation |
1. Did the Second Circuit err in holding, in contrast to the Federal Circuit, that under the "inquiry notice" standard applicable to trade secret misa… |
| 20-1616 |
ComicMix, LLC, et al. v. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof circuit-split copyright-act copyright-law de-novo-review exclusive-rights fair-use market-effect |
(1)
Whether fair use is a right of authors, thus placing the burden on plaintiffs to prove that fair use does not apply on defendants who assert that … |
| 20-1604 |
Biogen MA Inc. v. EMD Serono, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
|
anticipation claim-construction incentives medical-treatment method-of-treatment novelty patent patent-law patent-validity prior-art recombinant-protein |
Whether courts may disregard the express claim term "recombinant" so as to render a method-of-treatment patent anticipated—and thus invalid—in light o… |
| 20-1588 |
Michael Konowicz, aka Michael Phillips, et al. v. Jonathan P. Carr, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
|
actual-malice commercial-speech constitutional-interpretation defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lanham-act |
1. Whether the Court should revisit the fifty-year old "actual malice" doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its progeny to determine if the … |
| 20-1589 |
Kris Kaszuba, dba Hollywood Group v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
|
15-usc-1064 administrative-law appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit judicial-review lexmark principal-officers standing trademark trademark-law |
1. Has the Federal Circuit erred in refusing to follow this Court's Lexmark precedent, and in not applying precedent to standing under 15 U.S.C. § 106… |
| 20-1552 |
Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing |
1. A majority of a Federal Circuit panel ruled that
respondent has standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 to cancel
petitioner's trademark registration even … |
| 20-1545 |
TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-271 claim-construction industry-standard infringement judicial-precedent literal-infringement patent patent-infringement statutory-interpretation |
This Court's precedent in Markman requires that the construction of a patent "is exclusively within the province of the court." Markman v. Westview In… |
| 20-1517 |
Fast 101 Pty. Ltd. v. Citigroup Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12(b)(6)-dismissal alice-mayo-test claim-construction claim-language inventive-concept patent-eligibility prior-art subject-matter-eligibility |
1. When analyzing patent claims for subject matter eligibility "as a whole," does a court need to evaluate the differences between prior art allegatio… |
| 20-1448 |
Donna Corbello v. Franki Valli, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
|
copyright-estoppel copyright-infringement factual-work fair-use fiction first-publication ninth-circuit-doctrine original-expression public-claims unpublished-biography |
1. Whether the century-old equitable doctrine of copyright estoppel, which states that, once a work has been held out to the public as entirely factua… |
| 20-1452 |
Rick C. Sasso v. Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1295(a)(1) 28-usc-1338(a) breach-of-contract declaratory-judgment federal-circuit federal-patent-laws jurisdiction patent-jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether this is a case "arising under" federal patent laws under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) within the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(… |
| 20-1429 |
Arcona, Inc. v. Farmacy Beauty, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion registered-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-counterfeiting trademark-registration |
The Lanham Act defines "counterfeit" as "a spurious mark which is identical with, or substantially indistinguishable from, a registered mark." (15 U.S… |
| 20-1426 |
Epic Systems Corporation v. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1) |
civil-procedure compensatory-damages due-process due-process-clause notice-requirement punitive-damages statutory-cap statutory-caps trade-secrets |
Does a state statute that expressly caps punitive damages at two times compensatory damages satisfy the notice requirement of the Due Process Clause s… |
| 20-1420 |
Roadie, Inc. v. Baggage Airline Guest Services, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees claim-construction exceptional-case highmark-v-allcare infringement infringement-claim judicial-discretion octane-fitness-v-icon patent-law patent-statute-35-usc-285 |
Whether District Court judges should be required to consider the weakness of an infringement claim, after ruling in favor of the defendant on invalidi… |
| 20-1412 |
NetSoc, LLC v. Match Group, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
|
abstract-idea civil-rights computer-implemented-invention due-process free-speech patent patent-eligibility rating-system social-network standing takings technological-innovation |
1. Is the addition of a network computer implemented social network, with a novel and unconventional rating system, to a method of organizing human ac… |
| 20-1394 |
PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-interpretation kessler-doctrine patent-law preclusion-doctrine voluntary-dismissal |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted Kessler to create a freestanding preclusion doctrine that may apply even when claim and issue pre… |
| 20-1396 |
Walter A. Tormasi v. Western Digital Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection inmate-access patent patent-rights property-rights standing state-agencies takings |
Does imprisonment (1) forfeit a patent owner's right not to be deprived of personal property without due process of law and (2) render a person wholly… |
| 20-1391 |
Sportswear, Inc., dba Prep Sportswear v. Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
circuit-split consumer-confusion federal-registration intellectual-property related-goods service-mark trademark-infringement unrelated-goods |
1. Does the scope of a federally-registered service mark extend to unrelated goods bearing that service mark?
2. Does the defendant's copying of a ma… |
| 20-1380 |
Security People, Inc. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law retroactive-application vested-property |
Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review under the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. No. 112-29, 125 Stat. 284 (2011), the "A… |
| 20-1363 |
Merit Medical Systems, Inc. v. Nazir Khan, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court federal-circuit patent patent-infringement rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions section-285 |
If this Court determines in Case No. 20-773 that the Federal Circuit erred in affirming the award of attorney fees as sanctions under Rule 11, should … |
| 20-1359 |
Superama Corporation, Inc., dba USA Sumo v. Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbaugh-v-y-h-corp copyright copyright-act extraterritorial-application jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar morrison-v-national-australia-bank ninth-circuit reed-elsevier-v-muchnick statutory-requirement subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application, applied in the context of the U.S. Copyright Act, creates a jurisdictional bar. |
| 20-1339 |
Richard Sowinski v. California Air Resources Board |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Dismissed |
|
civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit infringement-suit issue-preclusion patent patent-preclusion preclusion res-judicata |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in creating and applying a patent-specific preclusion doctrine that bars new issues and new claims that would surviv… |
| 20-1342 |
In Re Titus L. Radcliff |
|
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
(SIMULTANEDUS CONTTESTED CLAETM)
LABELED B)CASE 13-5186
WAS THIS
1-9-2OIS LETEL SUPPOSE TO BE THE AASWEL FROM THE FIFUG
PASD FEE FU WHIEH MY CASE WITS… |
| 20-1309 |
Corcamore, LLC v. SFM, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process lanham-act lexmark-test standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-trial-and-appeal-board |
1st Question.
Whether this Court's Lexmark test is the sole
determinant of the statutory power of the Trademark
Trial and Appeal Board to adjudicat… |
| 20-1284 |
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
abstention claim-construction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-abstention federal-jurisdiction patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-law state-court-proceedings |
Whether a federal court with exclusive jurisdiction over a claim may abstain in favor of a state court with no jurisdiction over that claim. |
| 20-1289 |
NetScout Systems, Inc., et al. v. Packet Intelligence LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 enhanced-damages good-faith-defenses patent-eligibility patent-infringement section-101 technological-subject-matter treble-damages willful-infringement |
Whether a finding of willful infringement justifying treble damages may be based solely on the defendant's conduct following the filing of the suit.
… |
| 20-1291 |
WPEM, LLC v. SOTI Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-282 35-usc-285 clear-and-convincing-evidence district-court-discretion exceptional-case patent-law patent-validity prior-art |
1. Does a patent's presumption of validity afforded by 35 U.S.C. §282 limit a district court's discretion to find a case exceptional under 35 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-1285 |
Immunex Corporation v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-318 administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause inferior-officers patent-and-trademark-office principal-officers |
The first two questions presented here are the same as those presented in Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., No. 19-1458; Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. … |
| 20-1273 |
Franek Olstowski v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
|
arbitration arbitration-award bankruptcy federal-court federal-procedure full-faith-and-credit judicial-proceeding state-court state-court-judgment trade-secret |
1. Whether state-court judgments confirming arbitration awards, including state-court orders clarifying such judgments, are "judicial proceedings" ent… |
| 20-1258 |
Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., et al. v. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
|
conception conception-standard federal-circuit-rule inventorship-correction joint-inventorship non-obviousness novelty patent-law prior-art |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in adopting a bright-line rule that the novelty and non-obviousness of an invention over alleged contributions that … |
| 20-1261 |
Wi-LAN, Inc., et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer judicial-review patent patent-office principal-officer separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation uspto |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of… |
| 20-1232 |
IBSA Institut Biochimique, S. A., et al. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
foreign-inventors foreign-language indefiniteness national-treatment patent patent-indefiniteness patent-priority patent-prosecution priority-date trips-agreement |
Whether, pursuant to the United States' obligations under the TRIPS Agreement, codified at 19 U.S.C. § 3511, a court construing the claims of a U.S. p… |
| 20-1220 |
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Promptu Systems Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
|
administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause appointments-clause-interpretation constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review officer-status principal-officers separation-of-powers |
Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause. |
| 20-1211 |
SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. Adobe, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1404(a) civil-procedure discovery district-court-discretion federal-circuit-review mandamus patent patent-litigation transfer venue venue-transfer |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit wrongly overruled a district court judge's discretionary 1404(a) transfer decision when rational basis exists for all o… |
| 20-1165 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Citigroup, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-282 access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process patent-law separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the inferior courts arbitrarily claiming
collateral estoppel without once proving it
applying Supreme Court precedent dating back
more t… |
| 20-1145 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
|
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
|
appointments-clause constitutional-violations contract-clause due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-inquiry patent patent-rights separation-of-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction |
1. Whether Justice Barrett, as the last standing
Justice with original jurisdiction, with the same
duty and oath as the lower courts to enforce the … |
| 20-1126 |
Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo, et al. v. Unknown Defendants |
Massachusetts |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-145 35-usc-261 adverse-possession federal-circuit patent-application patent-ownership property-rights quiet-title standing-doctrine try-title uspto-procedure |
Does a party asserting ownership to a patent application have a right to a state (commonwealth) action like either a Massachusetts quiet action or a M… |
| 20-1119 |
Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-103 graham-factors graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias innovation innovation-protection nonobviousness-indicia objective-indicia obviousness-standard patent patent-law |
Whether a court must consider objective indicia of nonobviousness together with the other factors bearing on an obviousness challenge before making an… |
| 20-1112 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
|
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law contract-clause due-process equal-protection government-contracts patent patent-law separation-of-powers stare-decisis |
1. Whether Justice Barrett, as the last standing
Justice with original jurisdiction, with the same
duty and oath as the lower courts to enforce the … |
| 20-1110 |
Sandoz Inc., et al. v. Immunex Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
biosimilar-product double-patenting exclusivity federal-circuit invention obviousness obviousness-type-double-patenting patent patent-exclusivity patent-ownership substantial-rights |
Under federal patent law, a patent owner may receive only one period of exclusivity for its invention and may not obtain a second patent on the same i… |
| 20-1003 |
Christy, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
compensation government-fees inter-partes-review patent patent-exaction patent-invalidation post-grant-review private-property property-rights takings-clause |
1) When a duly-issued patent is invalidated through a post-grant review process (such as an IPR), must compensation be paid under the Takings Clause?
… |
| 20-932 |
Bobby L. Franklin v. D. J. Laughlin, et al. |
Nevada |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-fraud patent patent-rights quiet-title standing stare-decisis takings |
Has Petitioner Franklin's existing stare decisis patent rights that is published in his certified First Title on the described 80 acres ever been addr… |
| 20-934 |
Haritha Samaranayake, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act due-process evidentiary-record federal-circuit patent separation-of-powers standing statutory-jurisdiction |
Whether, in creating the required evidentiary record de novo rather than merely reviewing the agency Record below, the Court of Appeals for the Federa… |
| 20-915 |
Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-procedure circuit-court-precedent civil-procedure copyright-law copyright-office copyright-registration ninth-circuit publication-standard registration-requirements standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in breaking with its own prior precedent and the findings of other circuits and the Copyright Office in holding that 17 U… |
| 20-891 |
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (11)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-101 alice-v-cls claim-construction judicial-exception judicial-exceptions patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-law standard-of-review two-step-framework |
American Axle invented a new process for making a new, useful, and tangible thing – a quieter automobile driveshaft. It is the type of invention that … |
| 20-892 |
Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Illumina, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
and analyzing the separated DNA for diagnostic pu using well-known laboratory techniques is unpaten 35-usc-101 abstract-ideas diagnostic diagnostic-method dna dna-analysis dna-fragments laboratory-techniques myriad-decision myriad-doctrine natural-phenomena patent patent-eligibility section-101 |
Whether a patent that claims nothing more than a method for separating smaller DNA fragments from larger ones, and analyzing the separated DNA for dia… |
| 20-902 |
Kenneth E. Flick v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
2nd-amendment as-applied-challenges circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-copyright criminal-history felony-conviction felony-convictions firearm-possession second-amendment |
Whether the Second Amendment secures Ken Flick's right to keep and bear arms, notwithstanding his convictions for importing and selling counterfeit ca… |
| 20-873 |
Herman Miller, Inc. v. Blumenthal Distributing, Inc., dba Office Star |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure household-name jury-trial standard-of-review trade-dress trademark |
Where the appellate court in this action substituted its own findings of fact in place of a jury verdict; and where it is undisputed that the jury was… |
| 20-863 |
Akeva L.L.C. v. Nike, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-interpretation federal-circuit-split innovation-goals judicial-precedent patent-claim-construction patent-law patent-property-rights predictability property-rights public-notice |
Whether the Federal Circuit's "heavy presumption" line of cases or its "holistic" line should govern claim construction. |
| 20-853 |
Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Fall Line Patents, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-28 |
GVR |
Response Requested |
administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation department-head inferior-officers officer-status patent-office principal-officers separation-of-powers us-patent-and-trademark-office |
Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offic… |
| 20-779 |
Argentum Pharmaceuticals LLC v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-proceeding article-iii-standing article-three-standing fda-approval inter-partes-review joint-venture leahy-smith-america-invents-act patent-challenge patent-validity pharmaceutical-industry pharmaceutical-patent |
Did the Federal Circuit categorically and erroneously preclude redress for injured members of joint ventures in the pharmaceutical industry by only re… |
| 20-769 |
GS Cleantech Corporation, et al. v. Adkins Energy LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Until the Federal Circuit's decision in this patent case, every Circuit had held that an issue resolved on partial summary judgment, and not reopened … |
| 20-751 |
Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech
20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud |
The Florida Bar, an integrated Bar system under the jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, has disbarred an attorney who has posted what amounts t… |
| 20-742 |
Steven Bruce v. Alex M. Azar, II, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process false-and-misleading fifth-amendment medically-acceptable-indications medicare-part-d ninth-circuit rehabilitation-act rehabilitation-act-section-504 |
This is Compendia case, a case of first impression under Shalala v. Illinois Council, 529 U.S. 1 (2000).
1. Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Nin… |
| 20-737 |
B/E Aerospace, Inc. v. C&D Zodiac, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure america-invents-act inter-partes-review obviousness patent-challenge patent-validity printed-publications prior-art statutory-interpretation |
In an inter partes review proceeding under 35 U.S.C. § 311(b), does the Board have authority to consider unpatentability on a ground of obviousness th… |
| 20-728 |
adidas AG v. Nike, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
|
5-usc-7513 administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review patent-judges principal-officers severance statutory-interpretation us-patent-and-trademark-office |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of… |
| 20-706 |
Stone Creek, Inc. v. Omnia Italian Design, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-precedent circuit-split disgorgement disgorgement-of-profits intellectual-property intentional-misconduct judicial-precedent mishawaka-rubber trademark-infringement unjust-enrichment willfulness |
Does the Ninth Circuit's refusal to disgorge profits in this case of intentional infringement involving the identical mark on identical products confl… |
| 20-696 |
Peter Brownstein v. Tina Lindsay, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
|
assignment-of-copyright co-authors copyright-act copyright-assignment copyright-law derivative-work exclusive-rights joint-work license-revenue statutory-ownership |
Once a joint work is fixed, are the rights of the co-authors as the statutory co-owners of the copyrights in that work severable such that a co-author… |
| 20-675 |
Lone Star Silicon Innovations LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-311-312 35-usc-314 35-usc-318 administrative-law inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-invalidation patent-procedure patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board |
(1) whether, in inter partes review proceedings, the Board may issue a final written decision that invalidates duly issued patent claims based on a gr… |
| 20-679 |
Micron Technology, Inc. v. North Star Innovations, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
|
appointments-clause inferior-officers inter-partes-review patent-and-trademark-office principal-officers standing |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments
Clause, U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 2, administrative
patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of… |
| 20-661 |
Christian Charles v. Jerry Seinfeld, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
authorship authorship-claim circuit-split civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-ownership ownership-dispute statute-of-limitations work-for-hire |
The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's application of the limitations period in 17 U.S.C. §507 (b) to dismiss plaintiff Christian Charles's … |
| 20-623 |
Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdictional-dispute patent patent-infringement pro-se-litigant standing takings writ-of-certiorari |
1. Question #1: In this US patent litigation,
whether Petitioner, a Pro Se patentee who is
sole named inventor of valuable US ticketing
method, appara… |
| 20-624 |
Larry Golden v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
|
7th-amendment civil-rights due-process intellectual-property patent patent-rights pleading-standards pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process seventh-amendment standing |
Is it a question of law, for the District Court and/or the Appeals Court judges to unjustly violate a Pro Se litigant's procedural due process, or vio… |
| 20-631 |
Hologic, Inc., et al. v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
|
administrative-proceedings america-invents-act assignor-estoppel collateral-estoppel infringement-litigation patent-infringement patent-office patent-validity |
The question presented is whether an assignor of a patent may circumvent the doctrine of assignor estoppel by challenging the validity of the assigned… |
| 20-640 |
The Welsh Government v. Pablo Star Ltd., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
|
commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception copyright-infringement foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-state international-law jurisdictional-exception political-subdivision tourism-promotion |
Is a political subdivision of a foreign state immune from copyright infringement claims under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activi… |
| 20-604 |
InfoBionic, Inc. v. Cardionet, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit innovation longstanding-human-practice patent-eligibility patent-monopoly statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit has properly narrowed the scope of the abstract idea exception under 35 U.S.C. § 101. |
| 20-532 |
Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
|
claim-preclusion federal-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings patent patent-infringement perjury pro-se-plaintiff sanctions |
U.S. court of appeals for the Federal Circuit has entered a decision in this case in conflict with the decision of U.S. Court of appeals for the Feder… |
| 20-453 |
Consumer 2.0, Inc., dba Rently v. Tenant Turner, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 alice-test conventional-features graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias patent-eligibility preemption section-101 section-103 |
1) Whether preemption is a threshold and defining consideration that the lower courts must consider in determining whether a claimed invention is dire… |
| 20-439 |
Mantissa Corporation v. Ondot Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-exception fact-finding patent-eligibility pre-emption section-101 technical-field |
1) Has this Court's Alice exception to patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101
been improperly expanded to cover computer-implemented inventions that… |
| 20-440 |
Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12) |
35-usc-282 assignor-estoppel due-process judicial-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-law statutory-interpretation |
In the Patent Act, Congress established that invalidity is a "defense[] in any action involving the validity or infringement of a patent." 35 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-424 |
IYM Technologies LLC v. RPX Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appointments-clause arthrex constitutional-claim federal-circuit forfeiture inter-partes-review patent patent-law standing |
Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address a constitutional claim in a pending appeal despite an intervening change in law. |
| 20-421 |
Progressive Lawn Managers, Inc. v. Lawn Managers, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
divorce-orders lanham-act mark-abandonment naked-licensing parallel-state-court-proceedings state-court-proceedings trademark-infringement unclean-hands |
1. Whether in a trademark infringement case in which it is necessary for the federal court to construe state-court divorce orders governing the rights… |
| 20-414 |
Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-officers patent separation-of-powers tenure-protections |
1. Whether the severance and invalidation of administrative patent judges' tenure protections is consistent with congressional intent.
2. Whether inv… |
| 20-408 |
Fredman Bros. Furniture Company, Inc. v. Bedgear, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Dismissed |
|
administrative-officers administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officers judicial-review patent-law principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states |
Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause. |
| 20-386 |
Joseph D. Gilberti v. Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-reserve government-concealment judicial-misconduct national-defense-resource pandemic-conspiracy patent resource-suppression standing takings |
Why did the lower Court hide an endless underground Water Supply and Medicine resource and call it latently Insubstantial " that has been verified by … |
| 20-380 |
Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC, et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-112a enablement genus-claim genus-claims patent patent-law pharmaceutical-innovation pharmaceuticals statutory-interpretation written-description |
The Patent Act provides that patents must "contain a written description of the invention" in "such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable… |
| 20-364 |
Thomas Wilkins v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure article-iii-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-circuit inventor-correction inventorship jurisdiction patent patent-law standing uspto-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-365 |
Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
commercial-speech dilution-by-tarnishment first-amendment humor-defense lanham-act parody trademark-dilution trademark-infringement |
1. Whether a commercial product using humor is subject to the same likelihood-of-confusion analysis applicable to other products under the Lanham Act,… |
| 20-355 |
Arctic Cat Inc. v. Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-287 damages federal-circuit infringement-notice marking-statute notice-of-infringement patent-act patent-damages patent-marking statutory-interpretation willful-infringement |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that "notified of the infringement" and "such notice" under §287(a) refer only to communications from th… |
| 20-362 |
Cochlear Corporation, et al. v. Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-284 apportionment book-of-wisdom circuit-split damages damages-calculation hypothetical-negotiation patent-infringement reasonable-royalty sinclair-refining |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit has misapplied the
"book of wisdom" set forth in Sinclair Refining Co. v.
Jenkins Petroleum Process Co., 289 U.S. 689 (… |
| 20-333 |
Bozeman Financial LLC v. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
america-invents-act federal-government federal-reserve-banks federal-reserve-system government-entity patent patent-review post-issuance-review return-mail-decision return-mail-v-usps standing |
Whether the regional Federal Reserve Banks — the "operating arms" of the Federal Reserve System, which is the central bank of the United States — are … |
| 20-325 |
Whitserve LLC v. Donuts Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 commercial-success fact-weighing patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-validity presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 statutory-presumption |
If a patentee makes factual assertions that its claimed invention is directed
to patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101, including asser… |
| 20-313 |
Acer America Corporation, et al. v. Intellisoft, Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1451 claim-construction federal-jurisdiction gunn-v-minton inventorship patent-law removal removal-jurisdiction trade-secret |
(1) Where Plaintiffs' theories of trade secret ownership, misappropriation, and damages depend on deciding the patent law issues of inventorship, clai… |
| 20-314 |
RPM International Inc., et al. v. Alan Stuart, Trustee for the Cecil G. Stuart and Donna M. Stuart Revocable Living Trust Agreement, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
GVR |
Response Requested |
administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law judicial-procedure officer-status patent patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing us-constitution-article-ii |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred by vacating and remanding the case based on an Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, challenge r… |
| 20-271 |
Vilox Technologies, LLC v. Andre Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
|
administrative-judges administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause congressional-intent executive-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board severance-remedy tenure-protections |
1. Whether the court of appeals' severance remedy of the Appointments Clause violation of Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) is consistent with congr… |
| 20-273 |
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Rovi Guides, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Dismissed |
|
administrative-law administrative-patent-judges agency-adjudication appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation inferior-officers judicial-review patent-judges principal-officers separation-of-powers united-states-patent-and-trademark-office |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the United States Patent and Tra… |
| 20-260 |
Personal Audio, LLC v. CBS Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
|
appointments-clause collateral-estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law reexamination-clause seventh-amendment waiver |
1. Must the collateral estoppel effect of an inter partes review be raised and litigated in the appeal of the inter partes review, rather than in the … |
| 20-228 |
ESIP Series 2, LLC v. Puzhen Life USA, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause arbitrary-and-capricious art-iii-court due-process inter-partes-review patent statutory-jurisdiction thryv-precedent |
1. Whether Board decisions that are arbitrary
and capricious, exceed the Board's statutory
jurisdiction from the start, and are made by
administrative… |
| 20-230 |
Donald L. Baker v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process judicial-notice judicial-review patent patent-law pro-se-litigation retaliation |
1. Whether U.S. Agencies, in particular the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), may under law render shoddy, arbitrary, capricious and dishonest… |
| 20-220 |
VBS Distribution, Inc., et al. v. Nutrivita Laboratories, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
actual-injury article-three circuit-split civil-rights due-process false-advertising lanham-act standing uniform-application |
1. Whether a plaintiff in a false-advertising case must demonstrate "actual injury" to state a claim under the Lanham Act.
2. Whether the Ninth Circu… |
| 20-148 |
Marvin Washington, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Amici (9)Response Waived |
5th-amendment administrative-review controlled-substances-act due-process federal-patents medical-cannabis |
Three of the Petitioners require daily administration of medical cannabis to live. Despite classifying it a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Subst… |
| 20-150 |
ThermoLife International LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-patent-judges appellate-review appointments-clause chenery-doctrine constitutional-appointment patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers rehearing unconstitutional-appointments |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit violated the
Chenery doctrine by making new factual findings in
the first instance on appeal to affirm a decision of
th… |
| 20-158 |
SRAM, LLC v. FOX Factory, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-103 commercial-success federal-circuit graham-v-john-deere nonobviousness objective-indicia patent-act patent-claim patent-law person-of-ordinary-skill secondary-considerations statutory-interpretation |
In Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kansas City, 383 U.S. 1 (1966), this Court recognized the pivotal importance of "objective indicia" of nonobviousness (… |
| 20-142 |
Michael Skidmore, as Trustee for the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust v. Led Zeppelin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
copyright-act copyright-act-of-1909 copyright-protection deposit-requirement musical-works ninth-circuit originality selection-and-arrangement sheet-music tangible-medium |
Whether or not the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc correctly held that musical copyright protection under the Copyright Act of 1909 is … |
| 20-132 |
The Moodsters Company v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
audio-visual-characters circuit-split copyright-law literary-characters originality question-of-fact-vs-law |
1. Originality is the "touchstone," the "sine qua non," and the "premise" of copyright law. An artist may obtain a valid copyright if she meets this "… |
| 20-135 |
Customedia Technologies, LLC v. Dish Network Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-USC-101 Administrative-Procedure-Act Appointments-Clause Due-Process Leahy-Smith-America-Invents-Act patent-eligibility Patent-Eligible-Subject-Matter patent-trial-and-appeals-board ultra-vires |
1. Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address an Appointments Clause violation in a pending appeal despite an intervening c… |
| 20-88 |
HZNP Finance Limited, et al. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-112 claim-construction consisting-essentially-of nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-act patent-claim patent-validity reasonable-certainty statutory-interpretation transitional-phrase |
Whether the "basic and novel properties" identified in connection with a patent claim's transitional phrase "consisting essentially of" must independe… |
| 20-92 |
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Promptu Systems Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
|
administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause appointments-clause-interpretation constitutional-law inferior-officers officer-status principal-officers separation-of-powers |
Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause. |
| 20-74 |
Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Eugene H. Luoma, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
GVR |
Response Waived |
administrative-law america-invents-act enablement intellectual-property judicial-review obviousness patent-eligibility patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity prior-art written-description |
Question not identified. |
| 20-68 |
Cheetah Omni LLC v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-interpretation contract-law federal-circuit federal-common-law implied-license license-continuation patent patent-law rodriguez-v-fdic uniquely-federal-interests |
Did the Federal Circuit violate Rodriguez when it invoked its own federal common law rule, superseding controlling state contract law, to hold that a … |
| 20-32 |
Steve Morsa v. Andre Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea claims-analysis federal-circuit patent patent-eligibility patent-office preemption section-101 undue-preemption |
This Court has held that any machine or process is eligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101, subject only to narrow exceptions where the p… |
| 19-1475 |
Duke University v. Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-314 administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause due-process forfeiture inter-partes-review patent patent-law standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address an Appointments Clause violation in a pending appeal despite an intervening c… |
| 19-1464 |
Christopher Primbas, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstract-idea alice-v-cls-bank claim-construction inventive-concept parker-v-flook patent-eligibility patent-office patent-prosecution prior-art |
Whether recitation in a patent claim of a combination of steps determined to be inventive over an idea is "sufficient to ensure that the patent in pra… |
| 19-1459 |
Polaris Innovations Limited v. Kingston Technology Company, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
GVR |
Amici (2) |
35-usc-311 administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-service-protections congressional-intent constitutional-remedy ipr-statute patent-law severance statutory-interpretation tenure-protections |
1. Whether severance of the tenure protections for Administrative Patent Judges ("APJs") was unavailable to the Arthrex court to remedy the violation … |
| 19-1458 |
Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2) |
administrative-judges administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause congress due-process executive-review independence judicial-remedy patent separation-of-powers severance tenure tenure-protection |
The Appointments Clause requires principal officers
to be appointed by the President with the advice and
consent of the Senate, but permits inferior o… |
| 19-1451 |
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge federal-circuit forfeiture ksr-international-co-v-teleflex-inc obviousness patent-act patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board pending-case separation-of-powers |
While Sanofi's appeal was pending before the Federal Circuit, the court decided Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., 941 F.3d 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2019),… |
| 19-1452 |
Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1) |
administrative-adjudicators administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit inferior-officers lucia-v-sec patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers |
Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause. |
| 19-1434 |
United States v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2) |
administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer inferior-officers patent patent-and-trademark-office principal-officer principal-officers standing uspto |
1. Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Of… |
| 19-1435 |
C. Douglass Thomas v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alice-mayo-framework alice-v-cls-bank claim-limitations computer-technology diehr-v-diamond inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus nonobviousness patent-eligibility software-innovation software-patents |
1. Whether software innovations, simply because they are implemented on a general purpose computer, are ineligible for patenting unless they claim som… |
| 19-1378 |
Phazzer Electronics, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
ex-parte-review federal-circuit patent-cancellation patent-claims patent-damages remand standing uspto-cancellation uspto-reexamination |
Is the Federal Circuit affirmation of the patent damages now incorrect in light of the change of circumstances created by cancellation of all patent c… |
| 19-1381 |
BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc., fka MonoSol RX, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-law administrative-law-review agency-discretion appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review mandate-implementation patent patent-office sas-institute |
1. The Federal Circuit vacated three inadequate final written decisions and remanded the inter partes reviews (IPRs) with the order to implement this … |
| 19-1351 |
Ameranth, Inc. v. Domino's Pizza, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-resolution patent pretrial-order property-rights summary-judgment |
1. Does the sua sponte judicial resolution on summary judgment of issues expressly excluded by pretrial order, and on which the moving party submitted… |
| 19-1299 |
The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Techtronic Industries Co., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-05-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-v-cls claim-construction federal-circuit machine-invention machine-or-transformation patent patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption section-101 |
Whether the Federal Circuit improperly expanded § 101's narrow implicit exceptions by failing to properly assess Chamberlain's claims "as a whole," wh… |
| 19-1290 |
Michael T. Bennett v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
admissions-of-guilt character-design civil-procedure copyright-infringement damages defamation discovery intellectual-property plagiarism poor-man's-copyright standing |
1. If the Court finds that the Marvel Character "Falcon " in the 2014 Captain
America The Winter Soldier movie looks strikingly similar from the neck… |
| 19-1269 |
TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-05-06 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
antitrust equitable-relief frand frand-commitment jury-trial patent patent-infringement patent-licensing seventh-amendment specific-performance standard-essential-patents standard-setting-organizations |
Whether a patent owner required to license its standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms has a Seventh Amendment rig… |
| 19-1244 |
Anthony J. Johnson v. Storix, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright copyright-fees due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit petition standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit denied Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by refusing to consider any legal arguments raised on appeal, inclu… |
| 19-1232 |
Todd C. Bank v. Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights disparagement first-amendment lanham-act matal-v-tam standing trademark trademark-law trademark-registration |
1. In Matal v. Tam , 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), this Court
held that the disparagement clause of Section 2(a) of
the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a), whi… |
| 19-1228 |
Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment 7th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure claim-construction due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-infringement-non-infringement rule-36 seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment |
1. Whether under Rule 36 of the Federal Circuit's Rules of Procedure the Federal Circuit may affirm a judgment of non-infringement without opinion and… |
| 19-1204 |
Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent-law patent-law-retroactivity patent-office retroactive-application retroactivity takings |
1. Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review to patents that were applied for before the America Invents Act violates the Fifth Amend… |
| 19-1198 |
CANVS Corporation v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force |
Federal Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law contract-law due-process government-contracts government-liability intellectual-property small-business small-business-innovation takings |
Can the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, an administrative panel, deprive a corporation of valuable intellectual property without due process… |
| 19-1181 |
Estate of Thomas Steinbeck, et al. v. Waverly Scott Kaffaga, as Executrix of the Estate of Elaine Anderson Steinbeck |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
17-usc-304 collateral-estoppel copyright-act copyright-law copyright-termination licensing-rights res-judicata statutory-interpretation vesting |
Whether collateral estoppel bars an affirmative defense based on 17 U.S.C. § 304(c)(5) in a second litigation, when the first litigation involving dif… |
| 19-1173 |
Comcast Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
article-iii-courts comcast domestic-patent-infringement federal-circuit importation international-trade-commission international-trade-commission-itc mootness patent-infringement section-337 section-337-tariff-act statutory-interpretation vacatur |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit's judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission's orders, pursuant to Unit… |
| 19-1162 |
Addison Thompson v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-claim administrative-settlement civil-rights copyright-act copyright-law due-process exhaustion-of-claims federal-agency federal-government federal-statute sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation vara visual-artists-rights-act |
In 2014, a photographic mural project was destroyed during the relocation of the Peter Stuyvesant United States Postal Service (USPS), New York. The U… |
| 19-1147 |
Willowood, LLC, et al. v. Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-U.S.C.-271(g) 35-usc-271 copyright-claims federal-circuit-review limelight-networks-v-akamai monopoly patent-infringement pesticide-labels single-entity-rule statutory-interpretation |
This Petition presents two questions for
review:
1. Whether lability for patent
infringement under 35 U.S.C. §271(g) requires that
all steps of a pat… |
| 19-1131 |
Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-112 claim-construction federal-circuit patent-claims patent-law patent-law-35-usc-112 patent-specification patent-validity statutory-interpretation written-description written-description-requirement |
Whether § 112 requires a patent's specification to contain a written description of all of the limitations of a patent's claims, not just a "substanti… |
| 19-1132 |
Blackbird Tech LLC, dba Blackbird Technologies v. Health in Motion LLC, dba Inspire Fitness, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees case-by-case-analysis exceptional-case judicial-determination litigating-position litigation-discretion octane-fitness patent-act patent-law patent-litigation |
Can a court consider factors unrelated to the instant case in determining whether a particular case is exceptional, i.e., whether those outside factor… |
| 19-1124 |
Chrimar Systems, Inc., dba CMS Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ale USA Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-agency administrative-law administrative-review article-iii-court article-iii-courts article-iii-jurisdiction damages damages-judgment executive-branch-decision federal-circuit finality finality-standard patent-infringement patent-law-finality patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity standard-of-review |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit may apply a finality standard for patent cases that conflicts with the standard applied by this Court and all other cir… |
| 19-1103 |
INO Therapeutics LLC, et al. v. Praxair Distribution Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 drug-administration due-process eligibility innovation medical-research medical-treatment method-of-treatment patent patent-eligibility patient-outcomes personalized-medicine section-101 selective-treatment |
Whether a method of treatment that requires doctors to selectively administer a drug to certain patients and not others to enhance patient outcomes is… |
| 19-1110 |
Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court federal-patent-statute federal-statute patent-infringement patent-venue personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-rights state-rights state-sovereign state-sovereignty |
Whether a state's sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional… |
| 19-1097 |
Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
|
aia burden-of-proof due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-validity retroactive-legislation retroactivity takings vested-rights |
Does the application of inter partes review to a patent that issued before the enactment of the AIA violate the Due Process Clause because it retroact… |
| 19-1073 |
Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-112 35-usc-282 clear-and-convincing-standard enablement inoperability non-enabled-claims patent-law patent-validity presumption-of-validity statutory-interpretation unpredictability |
I. In light of a patent's presumption of validity under 35 U.S.C. § 282 and the concomitant clear and convincing standard for proving invalidity, may … |
| 19-1074 |
Celgene Corporation v. Laura A. Peter, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-review america-invents-act fifth-amendment inter-partes-review lucas-test patent-rights patent-rights-takings patent-trial-and-appeal-board patents penn-central-test property-rights takings takings-clause |
Whether retroactive application of inter partes review to patents issued before passage of the America Invents Act violates the Takings Clause of the … |
| 19-1058 |
Hospira, Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Company |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
claim-drafting claim-narrowing doctrine-of-equivalents literal-infringement patent-claim-interpretation patent-claims patent-prosecution-estoppel patent-prosecution-history-estoppel patent-scope prior-art-rejection tangential-relation tangential-relation-exception |
Whether a patentee may recapture subject matter via the doctrine of equivalents under the "tangential relation" exception by arguing that it surrender… |
| 19-1061 |
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Ltd., et al. v. Eli Lilly and Company |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
claim-amendment doctrine-of-equivalents festo-corp-v-shoketsu festo-corp-v-shoketsu-kinzoku-kogyo-kabushiki-co patent-claim patent-infringement patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-equivalents patent-prosecution prosecution-history-estoppel tangential-exception |
Under patent law's "doctrine of equivalents," a patent holder can allege infringement even when the defendant does not literally practice every elemen… |
| 19-1062 |
CJ CheilJedang Corp., et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
claim-amendment doctrine-of-equivalents festo-corp-v-shoketsu innovation patent-infringement patent-law prosecution-history-estoppel public-notice public-notice-function tangential-relation |
Whether, to avoid prosecution history estoppel under Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., "the rationale underlying the amendment" mus… |
| 19-1012 |
General Electric Company v. Raytheon Technologies Corporation, fka United Technologies Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights competition competitive-harm competitor-standing due-process inter-partes-review judicial-precedent patent patent-infringement patent-law standing |
Whether competitive harm alone suffices to confer Article III standing to appeal an IPR determination, or whether an appellant must also show concrete… |
| 19-1017 |
Solutran, Inc. v. Elavon, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alice-test alice-v-cls-bank bilski-v-kappos business-method-patent business-method-patents claim-construction patent-eligibility prior-art subject-matter-eligibility |
Does Alice's step one require that the claims be viewed as a whole and that consideration be given to the claimed advance over the prior art? |
| 19-1002 |
Automotive Body Parts Association v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-of-manufacture design-patent design-patents federal-circuit patent-exhaustion patent-law patent-rights repair-doctrine right-to-repair samsung-v-apple |
Design patents are limited to "any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture." 35 U.S.C. § 171(a). Under the patent exhaustion… |
| 19-990 |
Southern Illinois Storm Shelters v. 4SEMO.COM, Incorporated |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
|
business-impact circuit-conflict circuit-split common-law-trademark equitable-multi-factor-test equitable-test prior-precedent senior-user-rights trademark-ownership trademark-territory |
In this case, the Seventh Circuit panel refused to
apply the equitable six-factor test adopted by the
Second, Third, and Ninth Circuits to determine
c… |
| 19-966 |
Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-101 35-usc-103 35-usc-324 administrative-law america-invents-act cbm-patent covered-business-method judicial-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation |
In the America Invents Act, Congress authorized the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to review whether certain patents, called Covered Business Method (C… |
| 19-894 |
Michael Yamashita, et al. v. Scholastic Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split copyright-infringement copyright-ownership feist-publication feist-publications pleading-standard prima-facie-case second-circuit seventh-circuit third-circuit unauthorized-copying |
Did the Second Circuit err in holding that a complaint for copyright infringement must be dismissed unless it alleges particular facts showing "1) whi… |
| 19-873 |
Geophysical Service, Inc. v. TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
burden-of-proof contract-law copyright-infringement foreign-government-compulsion implied-license kirtsaeng-doctrine kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley-sons seismic-works |
1. This Court has never addressed the nature or scope of the defense of implied license to copyright infringement, and the circuits are split.
a. Is … |
| 19-852 |
Maxell, Ltd. v. Fandango Media, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test content-access content-access-control digital-media network-transmission online-streaming patent-eligibility time-controls |
Whether the claims at issue in Maxell's patents are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. 101, as interpreted in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 … |
| 19-832 |
Apple Inc. v. VirnetX Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
apportionment apportionment-rule federal-circuit innovation license-valuation patent-damages patent-infringement patent-invalidation pending-litigation prior-licenses |
1. A patented invention often makes but a small contribution to a complex end-product's value. Thus, for well over a century, this Court has enforced … |
| 19-829 |
Chrimar Systems, Inc. v. Juniper Networks, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure burden-of-proof due-process evidence inter-partes-review patent patent-challenge patent-law reply reply-evidence |
When a party files a petition for Inter Partes Review, the petition "must identify 'each claim challenged,' the grounds for the challenge, and the evi… |
| 19-708 |
Gold Value International Textile, Inc. v. Sanctuary Clothing, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
17-usc-411 attorneys-fees copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership copyright-procedure copyright-registration copyright-validity good-faith publication publication-status statutory-interpretation |
1. Can a court invalidate a copyright registration –
and thus terminate a pending case – on the basis of a
good-faith inclusion of inaccurate informat… |
| 19-700 |
Luis A. Ramos González, et al. v. Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
banking-law court-sanction federal-regulations home-loan home-mortgage-loan mortgage-financing mortgage-loan-agreement null-and-void secondary-market unacceptable-site wastewater-disposal |
1. If an "Unacceptable Site", pursuant Federal Regulations, can be granted Mortgage Financing, such as a Home Mortgage Loan, which is insured by Feder… |
| 19-620 |
Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine v. Kevin C. Doyle, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure common-law copyright criminal-conviction damages prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-criminal-conviction state-common-law statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act |
Is a plaintiff prevented from collecting statutory damages under the Visual Artists Rights Act as well as under state common-law for damages to the sa… |
| 19-619 |
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea computer-automated-method computer-automation computer-network data-analysis data-collection patent patent-eligibility patent-law standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether patent claims that recite only the abstract idea of collecting and analyzing data are patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice. |
| 19-601 |
Collabo Innovations, Inc. v. Sony Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act patent retroactive-application retroactivity takings-clause |
1. Does the retroactive application of inter partes review to a patent that issued before the passage of the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. … |
| 19-597 |
Morris Reese v. Sprint Nextel Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit mayo-v-prometheus patent-eligibility patent-ineligible-concept patent-law section-101 |
Whether this case provides an appropriate vehicle for this Court to state with clarity and certainty the definition of an "abstract idea" under 35 U.S… |
| 19-591 |
Chestnut Hill Sound Inc. v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-transparency patent reasoned-opinions rule-of-law summary-affirmation summary-affirmations |
1. Can a court ever choose to write reasoned opinions for one class of losing appellants and not another under the Due Process and Equal Protection Cl… |
| 19-589 |
Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
conscious-disregard copyright-infringement ebay-inc-v-mercexchange ebay-inc-vs-mercexchange ebay-v-mercexchange equitable-framework equitable-relief injunctive-relief jury-finding mental-state reexamination-clause seventh-amendment |
Whether courts must take into account a jury's finding of an infringer's mental state in considering injunctive relief under the Copyright Act. |
| 19-584 |
Nuvo Pharmaceuticals (Ireland) Designated Activity Company, et al. v. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-112 enablement federal-circuit innovation patent patent-law pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-composition prior-art written-description |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred by holding that, whenever the prior art teaches away from a pharmaceutical composition, the written description of a… |
| 19-571 |
Intel Corporation, et al. v. Continental Circuits LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
claim-construction claim-interpretation claim-scope disclaimer disclaimer-doctrine federal-circuit ordinary-meaning patent patent-construction specification specification-analysis written-description |
Whether courts should construe a patent's claims in light of the written description of the invention disclosed in the patent's specification, or whet… |
| 19-560 |
Jennie Nicassio v. Viacom International, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-copying circuit-split copyright-infringement fair-use fairness idea-expression-dichotomy originality plot-elements scenes-a-faire wrongful-appropriation |
Whether the scènes-à-faire evidence exclusion for actual copying should extend to all plot elements naturally flowing from a simple formulation of the… |
| 19-522 |
Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. IBG LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
|
abstract-idea civil-procedure computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-act patent-act-1952 patent-eligibility standing |
In Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208 (2014), the Court declined once again to define the scope of the "abstract idea" exce… |
| 19-521 |
ChargePoint, Inc. v. SemaConnect, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-v-cls-bank diamond-v-diehr innovation judicial-interpretation machine-or-process patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 |
1. Whether a patent claim to a new and useful improvement to a machine or process may be patent eligible even when it "involves" or incorporates an ab… |
| 19-493 |
James J. Maksimuk v. Connor Sport Court International, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
|
cafc corporate-representation court-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause legal-counsel legal-representation overturning-decisions supreme-court-rulings trademark-cancellation trademark-law |
1. Did the CAFC, District Court, 10th Cir., TTAB Orders and Judgments and referenced Supreme Court rulings —that required corporations to be represent… |
| 19-455 |
ARRIS International Limited v. ChanBond, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-315 35-usc-315(b) administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction due-process estoppel inter-partes-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab time-bar |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit has appellate jurisdiction to review a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB") denying institution of an… |
| 19-450 |
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., et al. v. Perrigo Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review budinich-v-becton-dickinson compensatory-damages enhanced-damages exceptional-case jury-verdict merits-ruling patent-infringement punitive-enhancement reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing |
The Patent Act expressly provides for compensatory
damages. 35 U.S.C. § 284. When the issues of patent
infringement and compensatory damages are tri… |
| 19-445 |
Neology, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process federal-circuit filing-date notice patent patent-claim patent-validity procedural-due-process validity written-description |
Whether, as a matter of law and procedural due process, a patent can be invalidated without notifying the patent owner about the specific invalidity c… |
| 19-430 |
Athena Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC, dba Mayo Medical Laboratories, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (11) |
35-usc-101 chemical-process chemical-steps diagnostic-method federal-circuit medical-diagnostics medical-innovation molecular-detection novel-molecules patent-eligibility patent-protection precedent subject-matter-eligibility |
Whether a new and specific method of diagnosing a medical condition is patent-eligible subject matter, where the method detects a molecule never previ… |
| 19-414 |
Medtronic, Inc. v. Mark A. Barry |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
burden-of-proof experimental-use federal-circuit patent-law patent-law-35-usc-102-b reduction-to-practice statutory-bar supreme-court |
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) (2011) bars the patenting of an invention that was "in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date … |
| 19-400 |
Garmin USA, Inc., et al. v. Cellspin Soft, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure claim-construction eligibility inventive-claims inventive-concept judicial-review legal-question motion-to-dismiss patent patent-eligibility patent-law pleadings question-of-law subject-matter-eligibility |
Whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court that can be resolved on a motion to dismiss, notwithstanding allegations in a complaint … |
| 19-365 |
John Barth v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction seizure sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause |
1. Violation of Constitutional Rights
Did acts of a federal court in publishing sealed documents of investigation rather
than returning them, violate… |
| 19-353 |
Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. IBG LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
abstract-idea civil-procedure computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-act patent-act-1952 patent-eligibility standing |
In Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208 (2014), the Court declined once again to define the scope of the "abstract idea" exce… |
| 19-337 |
Regents of the University of Minnesota v. LSI Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Granted |
Amici (3) |
administrative-proceeding civil-procedure federal-agency federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-validity sovereign-immunity state-university university |
Whether the inter partes review proceedings brought by private respondents against the University of Minnesota in this case are barred by sovereign im… |
| 19-324 |
Technology Properties Limited LLC, et al. v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process standing supreme-court-precedent the-patent-act federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law prosecution-history-disclaimer separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's development and application of the doctrine of "prosecution history disclaimer" i… |
| 19-310 |
Kroma Makeup EU, LLC v. Kimberly Kardashian, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split false-association lanham-act lexmark-international lexmark-test reasonable-interest rights-in-the-name standing standing-doctrine trademark-infringement |
Whether the proper analytical framework for
determining standing to pursue trademark infringement
(i.e., false association) claims under § 43(a) of … |
| 19-297 |
H&M Hennes & Mauritz, LP v. Malibu Textiles, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
|
access access-requirement copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-registration copyright-validity plausibility-standard pleading-standard striking-similarity |
1. In light of the "plausibility" standard established by
this Court in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly , 550
U.S. 544 (2007) and Ashcroft v. Iqbal , 5… |
| 19-259 |
Maron Pictures Ltd. v. Sam Eigen, et al. |
California |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
|
berne-convention contributory-copyright-infringement copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-ownership federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption motion-picture motion-picture-rights preemption state-court state-court-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
1. How can any state court make conclusions in relation to motion picture rights without referring to the Copyright Act to make a determination?
2. P… |
| 19-253 |
Straight Path IP Group, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-law procedural-due-process summary-judgment |
Whether Rule 36(e) of the Federal Circuit's Rules of Procedure violates the Fifth Amendment by authorizing panels of the Federal Circuit to affirm, wi… |
| 19-211 |
Time Warner Cable, Inc., et al. v. Sprint Communications Company, L.P. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-112 35-usc-112a 35-usc-284 apportionment federal-circuit garretson-v-clark patent-claims patent-damages patent-infringement patent-validity reasonable-royalty written-description |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit erred by affirming a damages award based on unapportioned end-user service revenues.
2. Whether the Federal Circuit er… |
| 19-167 |
Galen J. Suppes v. Curators of the University of Missouri |
Missouri |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invention-rights Jurisdiction Patent-Law patent-misuse standing takings university-ownership |
1. Was the Judgment's demand of perpetual (no
limit in time or geography) and unconditional
payment of remunerations of sixteen years of
Defendant … |
| 19-152 |
Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
|
false-advertising federal-circuit food-drug-cosmetic-act international-trade-commission lanham-act pom-wonderful-v-coca-cola tariff-act tariff-act-1930 trade-practices unfair-competition unfair-trade-practices |
When a manufacturer files a Lanham Act claim under the Tariff Act for competitive injuries caused by unfair trade practices, is the claim barred as a … |
| 19-120 |
IBG LLC, et al. v. Trading Technologies International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
america-invents-act covered-business-method federal-circuit federal-circuit-split patent-eligibility patent-review patent-validity statutory-interpretation technological-invention |
Whether a patent that does not satisfy the first prong of § 42.301(b)—that is, that does not recite a novel and non-obvious technological feature—clai… |
| 19-113 |
William F. Holdner v. Katy Coba, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agricultural-operation agriculture-operation-permit civil-rights due-process environmental-law environmental-regulation federal-environmental-regulations habeas-corpus patent patent-rights property-rights stormwater-permit water-pollution water-rights |
Whether a person engaged in an agricultural operation can be charged and convicted for failure to possess a stormwater permit under Oregon State Statu… |
| 19-103 |
StrikeForce Technologies, Inc. v. SecureAuth Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test berkheimer-v-hp federal-circuit inventive-concept patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter step-two-analysis well-understood-routine-and-conventional well-understood-routine-conventional |
Whether the Federal Circuit conducted the proper analysis under step two of Alice, as this Court will explain it, should certiorari be granted in Berk… |
| 19-101 |
Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review |
The question presented is whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, "unrebutted,… |
| 19-58 |
Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
|
antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process |
Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit? |
| 19-53 |
Branded LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
descriptive-marks federal-circuit generic-marks lanham-act principal-register trademark-descriptive trademark-descriptiveness trademark-distinctiveness trademark-generic trademark-genericness trademark-infringement trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration trademark-trial-and-appeal-board |
I.
Whether
the
Federal
Circuit
test
impermissibly categorizes "descriptive" marks
as unprotectable "generic" marks, on the basis
of the mark describin… |
| 19-46 |
United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B.V. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15) |
civil-procedure generic-term generic-terms intellectual-property lanham-act online-business top-level-domain trademark trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration uspto |
Whether the addition by an online business of a generic top-level domain (".com") to an otherwise generic term can create a protectable trademark. |
| 19-48 |
B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
|
bose disgorgement federal-circuit fraud fraud-standard lanham-act lanham-act-fraud patent rule-59-motion standard-of-review therasense trademark trademark-law uspto willfulness |
Under Section 14(3) of the Lanham Act an allegation of fraud on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) can arise in multiple contexts. A fraudul… |
| 19-43 |
Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Requested |
35-usc-101 alice-standard alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law patent-litigation rule-36-affirmance section-101 |
In Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International , 573 U.S. 208 (2014), this Court prescribed standards and a mode of analysis for determining patent eligibil… |
| 18-1574 |
William Henry Starrett v. Department of Defense, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12(b)(6) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-allegations federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss patent pleading pleading-standards standard-of-review standing takings technology-law |
Where all court filing fees have been paid to initiate pursuit, what is the appropriate inquiry for determining when only a litigant's factual allegat… |
| 18-1557 |
William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rico copyright-act copyright-infringement creative-rights due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property licensing plagiarism |
A. Whether the U.S. Copyright Act and Clause 17 U.S.C. 501, the Copyright Act Clause and the First Amendment of the U.S. Const., Art. 1, Sec. 8, equal… |
| 18-1549 |
Zimmer, Inc., et al. v. Stryker Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
|
enhanced-damages federal-circuit halo-v-pulse objective-recklessness patent-damages patent-law seagate-test subjective-intent willful-infringement willfulness |
1. Whether enhanced patent damages can be awarded without regard to whether there was an objectively high risk of infringement based on a finding of n… |
| 18-1540 |
VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct |
The owner of a copyright holds the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, public display, and adaptation in his or her work. 17 U.S.C. § 106.… |
| 18-1530 |
Enplas Display Device Corporation v. Seoul Semiconductor Company, Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-271(b) extraterritoriality global-tech global-tech-appliances induced-infringement inducement microsoft-v-att patent-infringement presumption-against presumption-against-extraterritoriality rjr-nabisco statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in view of the presumption against extraterritoriality, a foreign defendant's foreign sales of components to a foreign company qualifies as i… |
| 18-1508 |
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
|
claim-construction de-novo-review due-process JMOL jury-fact-finding jury-fact-findings jury-findings jury-trial patent-infringement procedural-due-process remand seventh-amendment standard-of-review teva-v-sandoz |
1. Where the district court properly instructed the jury to give a claim limitation its "plain and ordinary meaning as viewed from the perspective of … |
| 18-1515 |
Eli Lilly and Company v. Erfindergemeinschaft UroPep GbR |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-112 ariad-pharmaceuticals claim-construction enablement functional-claiming halliburton-oil-well-cementing halliburton-oil-well-cementing-co-v-walker halliburton-precedent patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-law point-of-novelty single-step-claim written-description |
Whether a single-step patent claim that describes its point of novelty solely in functional terms violates the rule against functional claiming set fo… |
| 18-1448 |
Glasswall Solutions Limited, et al. v. Clearswift Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 berkheimer berkheimer-standard conclusory-legal-assertions federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-infringement patent-specification pleading presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 twombly |
Where a threshold patent-eligibility determination under 35 U.S.C. § 101 is presented in a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss for failure to state a clai… |
| 18-1430 |
ReDigi Inc., et al. v. Capitol Records, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
copyright copyright-law copyright-reproduction digital-distribution electronic-transfer exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine fair-use first-sale-doctrine reproduction-right statutory-interpretation |
1. Under 17 U.S.C. § 109(a), is the acknowledged owner of a particular digital phonorecord lawfully purchased via electronic distribution under 17 U.S… |
| 18-1418 |
Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., et al. v. Akorn, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-144 federal-circuit mandate non-obviousness obviousness-standard opinion patent-appeal patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board rule-36 statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144's directive that the Federal Circuit "shall issue … its mandate and opinion" in all appeals from the Patent and Trademark O… |
| 18-1397 |
Prism Technologies LLC v. Sprint Spectrum L.P., dba Sprint PCS |
Federal Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdiction-scope mandate-rule patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-invalidity retroactive-expansion |
Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals may retroactively expand the scope of its appellate jurisdiction to invalidate patent claims under 35 U.S… |
| 18-1309 |
Booking.com B.V. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
GVR |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law american-rule attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-procedure-costs first-amendment government-fees government-litigation patent statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration |
Applicants for trademark registration dissatisfied with a decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board can commence a civil action seeking de novo… |
| 18-1285 |
Gilbert P. Hyatt, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law mandamus manual-of-patent-examining-procedure patent-act patent-and-trademark-office patent-appeal patent-appeal-rights patent-appeals patent-examination patent-examiner patent-office patent-office-procedure patent-prosecution statutory-interpretation steinmetz-v-allen |
Whether MPEP § 1207.04 violates patent applicants' statutory right of appeal following a second rejection. |
| 18-1289 |
Allergan, Inc., et al. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blocking-patent blocking-patent-doctrine commercial-success graham-v-john-deere long-felt-need objective-indicia objective-indicia-of-non-obviousness obviousness patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-obviousness prior-art |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in this case, as
it did in Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. v. Roxanne Laboratories, Inc., 903 F.3d 1310 (Fed. Cir. 2018), … |
| 18-1280 |
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. v. Roxane Laboratories, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
blocking-patent-doctrine blocking-patents burden-of-proof graham-v-john-deere nonobviousness objective-indicia obviousness patent patent-law patent-obviousness pharmaceutical-innovation prior-art |
Under 35 U.S.C. § 103, a patent "may not be obtained . .. if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed… |
| 18-1275 |
Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Rehearing |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure-fraud-on-the-court civil-rights discovery due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct patent patent-infringement sanctions standing summary-judgment |
As pointed out by District Judge J. Owen Forrester in Sklar v. Clough, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 49248 (N.D. Ga. July 6, 2007), "a district court may cons… |
| 18-1274 |
In Re Urvashi Bhagat |
|
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
35-usc-101 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act bilski-v-kappos federal-circuit-discretion graham-v-deere graham-v-john-deere judicial-discretion patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent uspto-discretion |
Whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) abused its discretion by refusing to allow claims that passed every single requirement o… |
| 18-1233 |
Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc., fka Fossil, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6) |
circuit-split civil-procedure intellectual-property lanham-act profits profits-award remedies statutory-interpretation trademark-infringement willful-infringement willfulness |
Whether, under section 35 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), willful infringement is a prerequisite for an award of an infringer's profits for a … |
| 18-1223 |
Mario Villena, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-101 35-usc-102-103 administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-test judicial-review patent-eligibility patent-examination patent-trial-and-appeal-board preemption section-101 statutory-interpretation uspto well-understood-routine-conventional |
Is the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) (Title 5 U.S.C. § 706) somehow nonrelevant under Alice/Mayo, or does the Federal Circuit's refusal to addres… |
| 18-1199 |
InvestPic, LLC v. SAP America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Amici (8) |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-v-cls-bank computer-implemented-process federal-circuit inventive-concept judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility physical-realm preemption |
Does the Federal Circuit's "physical realm" test contravene the Patent Act and this Court's precedent by categorically excluding otherwise patentable … |
| 18-1167 |
Sam Francis Foundation, et al. v. Sotheby's, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure copyright-act copyright-preemption discretionary-standard federal-copyright-act federal-copyright-law federal-jurisdiction legal-standard preemption procedural-interpretation state-statute uniformity |
Where an action is brought under a state statute preempted by section 301(a) the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq., Pub. L. No. 94-553, … |
| 18-1170 |
Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Requested |
antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process |
Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit? |
| 18-1159 |
The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection |
Religious organizations frequently confront claims that their names are generic and ineligible for trademark protection. Courts are divided over such … |
| 18-1144 |
Natural Alternatives International, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-guidance federal-circuit intellectual-property judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board priority property-law property-rights trips |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit err in analyzing rulings by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board when it failed to base its decision on… |
| 18-1150 |
Georgia, et al. v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (34) |
annotations copyright copyright-law government-edicts judicial-opinions legal-annotations official-code-of-georgia-annotated public-policy state-statutes statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government edicts doctrine extends to—and thus renders uncopyrightable—works that lack the force of law, such as the annotations in the Of… |
| 18-1114 |
TS Patents LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 ashcroft-v-iqbal claim-dismissal federal-circuit novel-improvements novel-invention novel-technical-improvements patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-infringement patent-presumption patent-validity presumption-of-validity routine-and-conventional rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 technical-improvements |
Can a court dismiss a patent infringement complaint under Rule 12(b)(6), for a lack of patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §101, when the complaint and… |
| 18-1088 |
Kamran Asghari-Kamrani, et al. v. United Services Automobile Association |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 constitutional-grant constitutional-power judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-test |
For over 70 years, the Court has used a common law patent eligibility test that deviates from the language and plain meaning of the patent eligibility… |
| 18-1075 |
RPX Corporation v. Applications in Internet Time, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office-decision patent-review patent-review-procedure statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-objection |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) bars judicial review of the Patent and Trademark Office's decision to institute inter partes review where a patent holder's… |
| 18-1072 |
James J. Macor v. United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-102 35-usc-103 administrative-law analogous-art obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-examination patent-law prior-art statutory-interpretation |
In making rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious, what standard should be applied in determining whether prior art is "analogous," and, if the… |
| 18-1037 |
Zheng Cai v. Diamond Hong, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
|
administrative-review cafc cultural-symbols foreign-cultural-symbol foreign-language foreign-language-marks judicial-interpretation language-expertise standing trademark trademark-examination trademark-law ttab |
Facing disputed marks with words in or originated in foreign language and foreign cultural symbol, judges should first get to know the true meaning of… |
| 18-1027 |
Superior Communications, Inc. v. Voltstar Technologies, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
GVR |
Response Requested |
35-usc-314 35-usc-314d 35-usc-315 35-usc-315b administrative-law appealability inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr patent-infringement patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab statutory-interpretation time-bar voluntary-dismissal |
1. Whether, under § 314(d), a party may appeal the PTAB's application of § 315(b)'s time-bar provision made during its decision to institute IPR.
2. … |
| 18-999 |
Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Bennett Regulator Guards, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
GVR |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-procedure administrative-review america-invents-act dismissal-without-prejudice federal-circuit-jurisdiction inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law patent-review-procedure-35-usc-314-315 patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing time-bar |
The 2011 America Invents Act provides for inter partes review (IPR), an administrative procedure designed to streamline patentability challenges. Cong… |
| 18-988 |
RPD Holdings, L.L.C. v. Tech Pharmacy Services, dba Advanced Pharmacy Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
asset-assumption asset-valuation assumption-and-assignment assumption-assignment bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-sale bankruptcy-trustees collateral-attack executory-contract finality-of-bankruptcy-sales patent-law patent-license |
This case raises two important issues of first impression under the Bankruptcy Code: what happens to an undisclosed executory contract —frequently a v… |
| 18-956 |
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (77) |
17-usc-102 17-usc-107 computer-code computer-program copyright-law copyright-protection fair-use federal-circuit intellectual-property software-development software-interface |
1. Whether copyright protection extends to a software interface.
2. Whether, as the jury found, petitioner's use of a software interface in the conte… |
| 18-961 |
Mitchell R. Swartz v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-145 35-usc-section-145 administrative-law civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-review judicial-procedure patent patent-application patent-law-35-usc-145 patent-office standing takings |
Has The Court Erred by not being consistent with Decisions of this court Regarding The Requirement of 35 U.S.C. §145 Claims (Count 1) to Address the N… |
| 18-916 |
Thryv, Inc., fka Dex Media, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (18) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 america-invents-act cuozzo inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab section-315b time-bar wi-fi-one |
1. Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) permits appeal of the PTAB's decision to institute an inter partes review upon finding that § 315(b)'s time bar did not … |
| 18-899 |
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law administrative-proceeding federal-circuit indian-tribe inter-partes-review patent-challenge patent-law patent-office patent-trial-and-appeal-board sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereign-immunity |
Whether inter partes review before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is the type of proceeding in which tribal sovereign immunity may be asserted. |
| 18-878 |
Robert Stevens, et al. v. CoreLogic, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-management-information dmca dmca-violation infringement-prevention mental-state mental-state-requirement ninth-circuit-standard register-of-copyrights standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order to satisfy the mental state requirement of "knowing, or, . . . having reasonable grounds to know" that removal or alteration of copy… |
| 18-880 |
SureShot Golf Ventures, Inc. v. Topgolf International, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
|
antitrust antitrust-claims article-iii article-iii-ripeness civil-procedure competitor-rights essential-technology market-foreclosure monopolist monopoly patent patent-technology ripeness-doctrine standing |
1. Whether the Article III ripeness doctrine bars a competitor's antitrust claims against a monopolist who acquired essential and patented technology … |
| 18-877 |
Frederick L. Allen, et al. v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
14th-amendment article-i-power congress congressional-power constitutional-law copyright copyright-infringement copyright-remedy-clarification-act federal-power federal-remedies federal-statute intellectual-property sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity |
Whether Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity via the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act, Pub. L. No. 101-553, 104 Stat. 2749 (1990), in… |
| 18-861 |
WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar |
35 U.S.C. §315(b) bars the Patent Office from instituting inter partes review proceedings to challenge a patent's validity "if the petition requesting… |
| 18-849 |
HTC Corporation v. 3G Licensing, S.A., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1391 28-usc-1400b federal-circuit foreign-defendant patent-infringement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute |
This patent infringement case squarely presents a question acknowledged by the Court but left unanswered in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brand… |
| 18-823 |
ZUP, LLC v. Nash Manufacturing, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
invention invention-evaluation legal-analysis long-felt-need non-obviousness obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-invalidity patent-law prima-facie prior-art rebuttal secondary-considerations |
Whether evidence of "secondary considerations"
(e.g., a long-felt, but unresolved, need for the patented
invention) is less important, functioning at … |
| 18-817 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3) |
generic-drugs inventive-concept medical-patent medical-treatment method-of-treatment natural-law patent-eligibility routine-and-conventional section-101 |
Whether patents that claim a method of medically treating a patient automatically satisfy Section 101 of the Patent Act, even if they apply a natural … |
| 18-801 |
Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. NantKwest, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
35-usc-145 administrative-law civil-action civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-act patent-application patent-law personnel-expenses standing statutory-interpretation uspto USPTO-litigation |
Whether the phrase "[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings" in 35 U.S.C. 145 encompasses the personnel expenses the USPTO incurs when its employees, in… |
| 18-779 |
Power Integrations Inc. v. Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
|
apportionment customer-demand entire-market-value-rule federal-circuit patent-damages patent-infringement patent-law patent-litigation willful-infringement |
Whether a plaintiff that proves that a patented feature creates the basis for customer demand for infringing products is entitled to patent damages ba… |
| 18-770 |
Webtrends, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-test claim-rejection federal-court patent patent-claims prior-art standing uspto |
Whether the USPTO or a Federal Court can declare 20 patent claims to be directed to an unpatentable abstract idea without carrying out the Alice two-p… |
| 18-750 |
JTEKT Corporation v. GKN Automotive Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
article-iii article-iii-standing estoppel injury-in-fact inter-partes-review patent patent-office-appeal patent-standing standing standing-article-iii-injury-in-fact-patent-office- statutory-interpretation statutory-rights |
Can the Federal Circuit refuse to hear an appeal by a petitioner from an adverse final decision in a Patent Office inter partes review on the basis of… |
| 18-728 |
Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement |
Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's "selection and arrangement" of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui… |
| 18-712 |
Jerry Artrip v. Ball Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
|
amendment civil-procedure claim-dismissal complaint-amendment district-court federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-infringement standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's patent infringeme… |
| 18-701 |
Clayton Prince Tanksley v. Lee Daniels, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
|
7th-amendment access amendment copyright copyright-infringement jury-trial lay-observer-test pleading-stage prima-facie-claim probative-similarity similarity substantial-similarity |
(1) The question presented is whether the trial
court should engage in a substantive analysis
and determination regarding substantialsimilarity as a m… |
| 18-692 |
Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. UCB, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
35-usc-103 double-patenting federal-circuit graham-factors graham-v-john-deere invention-disclosure lead-compound-test obviousness patent-eligibility patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-double-patenting patent-validity prior-art |
1. This Court has long held that "no patent can issue for an invention actually covered by a former patent, especially to the same patentee." Miller v… |
| 18-615 |
Bruce Munro, et al. v. Lucy Activewear Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure copyright copyright-law intellectual-property lanham-act physical-products preemption product-design standing trade-dress |
Does copyright preclude Lanham Act product design trade dress claims for physical products, and if so, under what circumstance(s)? |
| 18-607 |
Jon Roozbeh Vazeen, aka Hassan Vazin v. Michelle Smith Vazin |
Tennessee |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
|
asset-dissipation civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial free-speech galileo-style-prosecution national-science-foundation patent property-rights scientific-prosecution standing takings trial-court-overreach |
Does a trial court have any rights to prosecute a scientist, in reminiscence of Galileo's prosecution, for his/her forward-thinking science when the s… |
| 18-599 |
Wi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-315b administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa indemnity-agreements inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab standard-of-review time-bar |
1. Did the appellate panel below err by disregarding 5 U.S.C. §706 and instead applying the Federal Circuit's "abuse of discretion" standard of review… |
| 18-600 |
Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc., fka Intersil Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3) |
35-usc-271 commercial-transactions extraterritoriality federal-circuit infringement international-relations offer-to-sell patent patent-infringement patent-law statutory-interpretation united-states-code venue |
Under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a), a person directly infringes a patent whenever she "offers to sell" a patented invention "within the United States." The ques… |
| 18-590 |
Cave Consulting Group, LLC v. OptumInsight, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-language claim-scope judicial-construction lexicography-disavowal patent-claim-construction patent-scope patent-specification patent-validity public-notice specification specification-interpretation written-description |
Congress requires inventors seeking patent protection to specifically identify what they regard as their invention in a patent claim. The Patent Offic… |
| 18-549 |
Voter Verified, Inc. v. Election Systems & Software LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 bilski-v-kappos collateral-estoppel declaratory-judgment federal-circuit issue-preclusion method-claims patent-infringement patent-validity res-judicata voting-method |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in deciding that patent claims for a method of voting are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a second action for paten… |
| 18-494 |
Thomas S. Ross v. Apple, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
17-usc-106 17-usc-501 copyright-infringement copyright-ownership eleventh-circuit exclusive-rights motion-to-dismiss standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly held that granting defendant's Motion for Dismissal was justified even though a) plaintiff proved ownership of … |
| 18-495 |
Morris & Associates, Inc. v. John Bean Technologies Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
|
claim-construction due-process equitable-estoppel federal-circuit implied-license judicial-procedure patent patent-claims patent-infringement patent-law reexamination scotus-precedent waiver |
In Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, Inc., 134 S.Ct. 1962 (2014), and SCA Hygiene Prods. Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Prods., LLC, 137 S.Ct. 954 (2… |
| 18-468 |
SSL Services, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-325(d) administrative-law administrative-procedure estoppel inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office patent-review patent-validity predictability prior-art statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts may review an agency's ruling on whether the § 325(d) Multiple-Proceedings rule applies and bars an IPR's institution when (1) the a… |
| 18-441 |
Accord Healthcare, Inc., et al. v. UCB, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-103 lead-compound obviousness patent patent-invalidation patent-law pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-compound prior-art |
Did the Federal Circuit commit error in holding that a patent claim to an obvious modification of a prior art compound was not invalid as obvious unde… |
| 18-415 |
HP Inc., fka Hewlett-Packard Company v. Steven E. Berkheimer |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework civil-procedure claim-construction inventive-concept judicial-exception patent patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standing |
The question presented is whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court based on the scope of the claims or a question of fact for the… |
| 18-414 |
Carl M. Burnett v. Panasonic Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 analog-signal civil-procedure digital-data digital-signal electromagnetic-signal electronic-data evidence patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 subject-matter-eligibility tangible-embodiment |
Whether electronic data is the tangible embodiment of an electromagnetic analog or digital signal and when changed to a new and useful form of electro… |
| 18-395 |
Corning Optical Communications RF LLC v. PPC Broadband, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-procedure egregious-conduct fee-shifting halo-standard halo-v-pulse intentional-knowing notice-requirement objective-reasonableness patent-damages willful-infringement |
1. In determining whether to enhance damages for "egregious" infringement under §284, must courts consider all relevant circumstances, including evide… |
| 18-388 |
Nigel Parker, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5-usc-706(2)(e) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-overreach arbitrary-and-capricious patent patent-law patent-office patent-office-rejection publication publication-standard publication-under-35-usc-102(b) record-evidence substantial-evidence |
In Dickinson v. Zurko, 527 U.S. 150 (1999), this Court held that The United States Patent Office must support rejection with substantial evidence. See… |
| 18-378 |
Merck & Co., Inc., et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-procedure damages equitable-defense jury-verdict legal-relief patent separation-of-powers seventh-amendment unclean-hands |
Whether the equitable defense of unclean hands precludes legal relief in the form of damages. |
| 18-382 |
Raji Rab v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. |
California |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-designation ballot-position constitutional-rights due-process election-code election-codes equal-protection federal-candidate federal-election trademark trademark-violation |
Whether the California Secretary of State has mandatory duties to preserve equal protection of constitutional rights of Federal candidate's ballot des… |
| 18-371 |
George M. Wang v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 additional-features alice-corp-v-cls-bank inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus patent-application patent-claims patent-community patent-eligibility patent-protection phonetic-symbol-system useful-invention |
Whether the claims of the very useful invention contain "additional features" embodying an inventive concept that makes the invention patent-eligible. |
| 18-303 |
Henryk Oleksy v. General Electric Company |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure counterclaim-dismissal court-precedent due-process federal-circuit finality finality-of-judgment judgment-finality patent patent-law precedent supervisory-power |
1. Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power to assure that precedents are followed and reverse a decision that the district court judg… |
| 18-321 |
TVEyes, Inc. v. Fox News Network, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
17-usc-107 campbell-v-acuff-rose commercial-success copyright-law fair-use market-harm second-circuit statutory-factors transformative-use |
In copyright law, the defense of fair use covers the transformative use of a work for research, comment, criticism and parody. Whether a use is "fair"… |
| 18-314 |
Capella Photonics, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-144 appellate-review due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure judicial-review mandamus patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of routinely issuing judgments without opinions in appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates 35 U… |
| 18-302 |
Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. Erik Brunetti |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech government-speech immoral immoral-marks lanham-act scandalous scandalous-marks trademark trademark-registration |
Whether Section 1052(a)'s prohibition on the federal registration of "immoral" or "scandalous" marks is facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause … |
| 18-276 |
Richard J. Baker v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-i-section-8-clause-8 compensation constitutional-interpretation contract due-process government-compensation government-obligation invention-security judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings patent-infringement patent-rights property-protection property-rights takings trial |
Whether under rights given by Congress and contained in U.S. Constitution. Article I Section 8. Clause 8 to all U.S. patent holders for disclosure of … |
| 18-277 |
Urvashi Bhagat v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Rehearing |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
' '35-usc-101" ' 'administrative-procedure-act' ' 'funk-brothers" ' 'myriad-genetics" ' 'patent-eligibility" ' 'patent-system" 35-usc-101 administrative-procedure-act Funk-Brothers Myriad patent-eligibility USPTO |
This petition presents a conflict between the incentive to invent, as the Constitution provides for, and the breadth of patent-eligible subject matter… |
| 18-252 |
Real Estate Alliance Ltd. v. Move, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test alice-v-cls-bank computer-user-interface fact-finding federal-circuit inventive-concept patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-law well-understood-routine-and-conventional |
Is whether an ordered combination of elements in a patent claim is "well-understood, routine and conventional" to a skilled artisan in the relevant fi… |
| 18-235 |
Ventura Content, Ltd. v. Motherless, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
|
actual-knowledge apparent-knowledge copyright-infringement copyright-liability digital-millennium-copyright-act dmca-safe-harbor knowledge-standard online-service-provider repeat-infringer repeat-infringer-policy repeat-infringers termination-policy volitional-conduct |
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512, where an Online Service Provider's (OSP) user uploads over 300,000 pieces of conte… |
| 18-222 |
EMED Technologies Corporation v. Repro-Med Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure claim-construction constitutional-amendment digital-claim due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-claim-construction patent-law-procedure review-procedure standard-of-review takings |
1. Given the clear error standard for reviewing factual determinations made by the PTAB1, is it error for the PTAB to not adhere to the Fhillips claim… |
| 18-189 |
Smartflash LLC v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause covered-business-method-review due-process patent-eligibility patent-invalidation patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers |
1. Whether Administrative Patent Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("Board") are principal Officers of the United States who must be appoint… |
| 18-190 |
Queen's University at Kingston v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof due-process enablement inter-partes-review patent-invalidity prior-art |
Does the Federal Circuit's requirement that patent owners negate enablement of prior art in the first instance invert the statutory burden of proving … |
| 18-182 |
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Inc. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-controversy article-iii declaratory-judgment drug-exclusivity fda-approval generic-drugs patent-invalidity pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-patents standing |
In the context of patent cases involving pharmaceutical products, does the "actual controversy" requirement of the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C.… |
| 18-183 |
Advanced Audio Devices, LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
5th-amendment aia america-invents-act constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent patent-law patents takings-clause |
Whether inter partes review ("IPR") of patents filed before enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA") violates the Takings Clause of th… |
| 18-124 |
Two-Way Media Ltd. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea factual-questions innovation-specificity motion-to-dismiss patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-under-35-usc-101 patent-specification section-101 specificity-requirement technological-architecture |
1. In order to clear the threshold eligibility determination under 35 U.S.C. § 101, must a patent include in its claims a sufficient level of specific… |
| 18-127 |
Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Requested |
35-usc-112 biotechnology enablement federal-circuit innovation patent-law possession statutory-interpretation written-description |
Whether the standard for determining the adequacy of the "written description of the invention" should be as the statute says—that the description mus… |
| 18-109 |
Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Illumina, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Response Waived |
35-usc-102 35-usc-119 disclosure federal-circuit filing-date patent patent-application patent-law patent-prior-art prior-art priority subject-matter |
Do unclaimed disclosures in a published patent application and an earlier application it relies on for priority enter the public domain and thus becom… |
| 18-88 |
Richard Gramm v. Deere & Company |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
GVR |
|
certiorari claim-construction claim-institution federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab sas-institute-v-iancu supreme-court-procedure |
In light of SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu, 138 S. Ct. 1348 (2018), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate, and remand the Federal Circuit's decision… |
| 18-77 |
Advanced Video Technologies LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure federal-circuit involuntary-plaintiff joinder patent patent-law rule-19 standing supreme-court |
Did the Federal Circuit properly create an exception to Rule 19 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in patent law, requiring a dismissal of a case… |
| 18-72 |
DRK Photo v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
17-usc-501b beneficial-ownership circuit-split copyright-act copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-ownership-transfer infringement-claims standing statutory-construction statutory-standing |
1. Whether an unequivocal transfer of copyright ownership, together with accrued claims, is effective to give the transferee the statutory right to su… |
| 18-63 |
Steve K. Wilson Briggs v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-claims copyright-law court-procedure due-process free-speech intellectual-property internet-guidelines legal-precedent patent precedent standing |
Whether by failing to clarify and update internet widespread dissemination access guidelines, U.S. courts imperil the rights of U.S. intellectual prop… |
| 18-52 |
Paul Andrew Leitner-Wise v. LWRC International, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-100 35-usc-281 patent-assignment patent-fraud patent-infringement patent-law patent-royalties patent-standing patent-uniformity |
The plain language of 35 U.S.C. § 100 (d) identifies a "patentee" as "to whom the patent was issued but also the successors in title to the patentee."… |
| 18-47 |
Thomas McClary, et al. v. Commodores Entertainment Corp. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
|
extraterritorial-conduct extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-commerce jurisdiction lanham-act steele-v-bulova substantial-effect trademark-enforcement trademark-standing us-commerce |
1. What defines the "substantial effect on United States commerce", that grants U.S. court's jurisdiction to expand the Lanham Act to extraterritorial… |
| 18-25 |
Edward Mandel v. Steven Thrasher, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-decision damages damages-calculation damages-review judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-royalty remand standard-of-review trade-secret |
After a full trial, the bankruptcy court rejected as unreliable the evidence purporting to assert a "lost asset" model of damages in a trade-secret mi… |
| 18-21 |
Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-precedent circuit-courts civil-procedure due-process factual-stipulation federal-circuit judicial-procedure legal-binding noninfringement patent-infringement precedent stipulation |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit may ignore a factual stipulation, contrary to this Court's precedent, and decisions of numerous circuit courts, holding… |