| 25-970 |
Rami Ghanem v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
|
acquitted-conduct beyond-reasonable-doubt fifth-amendment judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit federal courts from increasing a criminal defendant's authorized punishment based on conduct—including… |
| 25-966 |
Department of Labor, et al. v. Sun Valley Orchards, LLC |
Third Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
|
administrative-law article-iii h-2a-visa-program immigration-law public-rights-doctrine separation-of-powers |
Whether Article III of the Constitution precludes Congress from assigning to the Secretary of Labor the initial adjudication of proceedings to collect… |
| 25-964 |
TNSG Health Co., Ltd., et al. v. Murray Colin Clarke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
|
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 |
Response 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 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 … |
| 25-946 |
In Re Haden Christian Yonce |
|
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
|
ai-system-confession cognitive-architecture digital-cloning judicial-abandonment national-security-emergency writ-of-mandamus |
1. Whether a district court's complete failure to rule on any motion for 102 days (first filing) and 73 days (dispositive motion), combined with defen… |
| 25-942 |
In Re Ronny Jackson, Individually and as U.S. Representative for Texas's 13th Congressional District, et al. |
|
2026-02-09 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
congressional-districts district-court jurisdictional-requirements mandamus statutory-interpretation three-judge-court |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2284(a) requires a district judge to request the convening of a three-judge district court whenever an action is filed "challengin… |
| 25-940 |
Monib Zirvi v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
bar-date circuit-court claim-preclusion due-process legal-precedent pleading-stage |
Question 1
Whether the circuit court improperly determined that
a subsequent pleading rather than the initial complaint, is
the operative bar date … |
| 25-898 |
William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias |
Colorado |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
|
district-map equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2 standing voting-rights-act |
Respondents challenged Washington state legislative district 15 ("LD-15"), alleging it diluted Hispanic votes under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act… |
| 25-918 |
Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
|
district-reconfiguration equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2-liability standing voting-rights-act |
1. Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to cha… |
| 25-919 |
Union Carbide Corporation, et al. v. Lee Ann Sommerville |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
|
admissibility burden-of-proof evidentiary-standard expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-circuit-split |
Whether, under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, challenges to the factual basis of an expert witness's testimony always go to the weight of the evidence … |
| 25-896 |
Michael J. House v. General Electric Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
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 … |
| 25-875 |
Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Texas |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
|
cell-phone-logs confidential-records fourth-amendment government-disclosure privacy-rights public-records |
The Fourth Amendment protects "the right of the people to be secure in their . . . papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." U… |
| 25-872 |
Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge firearm-restriction public-parks second-amendment self-defense sensitive-places |
Fairfax County, Virginia, prohibits possession of firearms in its public parks, which consist of almost 24,000 acres of mostly wooded land across 420 … |
| 25-860 |
ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure court-conflict inherent-authority sanctions |
1. Whether an imposition of sanctions against a party and not its attorney under a court's inherent authority can be upheld by the mere talismanic rec… |
| 25-856 |
William King, Individually and on Behalf of Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
|
government-authorization monetary-rights pension-appropriation property-interest takings-clause vested-pension |
In 2014, Congress created a process for solvent, private pension plans to rewrite the binding agreements that govern their obligations to pay money to… |
| 25-853 |
United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
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… |
| 25-820 |
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. WhereverTV, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-procedure circuit-split jurisdictional-issue party-presentation sua-sponte waiver |
Whether a court of appeals may override the principle of party presentation by deciding sua sponte a non jurisdictional issue that a party deliberatel… |
| 25-779 |
Bright Data Ltd. v. Code200, UAB, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
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… |
| 25-769 |
Lorillard Tobacco Company v. Marita R. Sciarrotta, Director of the New Jersey Division of Taxation |
New Jersey |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
commerce-clause corporate-taxation due-process interstate-commerce royalty-payments tax-deductibility |
(1) Whether New Jersey's scheme for taxing royalty
payments, that conditions the deductibility of
related-party royalty payments on the extent of
t… |
| 25-753 |
Zioness Movement, Inc. v. The Lawfare Project, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
|
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… |
| 25-754 |
Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
|
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 … |
| 25-762 |
Ian Freeman, fka Ian Bernard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking congressional-intent financial-regulation regulatory-authority statutory-interpretation virtual-currency |
Did the federal agency FinCEN exceed the authority granted in 2001 by Congress in 31 U.S.C. § 5330 to regulate money transmitting businesses when FinC… |
| 25-761 |
Novo Nordisk Inc., et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking constitutional-constraints medicare price-controls separation-of-powers |
The Inflation Reduction Act grants the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") unprecedented and unfettered authority to impose price contr… |
| 25-749 |
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
|
drug-pricing economic-coercion fifth-amendment first-amendment government-compulsion medicare-negotiation |
1. Does the Program violate the First Amendment by compelling Janssen to express the Government's disputed messages regarding drug pricing?
2. Does t… |
| 25-736 |
World Champ Tech, LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
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… |
| 25-667 |
CoStar Group, Inc., et al. v. Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
antitrust exclusive-dealing ninth-circuit plausible-relief refusal-to-deal sherman-act |
In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, this Court recognized the risk of allowing antitrust claims to proceed past the pleading stage in the absence of a … |
| 25-636 |
Rahul Chaturvedi v. Siddharth Siddharth |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
|
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 |
Pending |
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… |
| 25-611 |
Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue |
Oregon |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-convenience equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property state-law taxation |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from singling out a few businesses for taxation of their intangible … |
| 25-596 |
Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion rule-60b sanctions-award subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) When a district court is presented with a motion for relief from judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b), does it abuse its discretio… |
| 25-575 |
Will McLemore, et al. v. Roxanna Gumucio, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Tennessee Auctioneer Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-split first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-law professional-speech speech-conduct |
1. Whether a burden on speech must be incidental merely because it is imposed by an occupational licensing law.
2. Whether a law that imposes inciden… |
| 25-570 |
Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Synthego Corp. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Pending |
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 … |
| 25-552 |
Nicholas Lupo, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access elector-candidates electoral-college first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-election |
Is not States ' premature adjudication of qualifications of Elector Candidates ' Pledged Candidates unconstitutional and violation of the foundational… |
| 25-513 |
Adele Jeffords Pope v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contempt due-process estate-law first-amendment foia-request judicial-order |
1. Whether the South Carolina Supreme Court's interpretation and enforcement of its 2015 Order violates the First Amendment.
2. Whether the South Car… |
| 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 |
Pending |
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… |
| 25-429 |
Pamela Bondi, Attorney General v. Muk Choi Lau |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Granted |
|
immigration-law inadmissibility-grounds lawful-permanent-resident parole removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation |
Whether, to remove an LPR who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government mu… |
| 25-406 |
Federal Communications Commission, et al. v. AT&T, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-06 |
Granted |
|
administrative-law article-three communications-act judicial-review monetary-forfeiture seventh-amendment |
Whether the Communications Act provisions that govern the FCC's assessment and enforcement of monetary forfeitures are consistent with the Seventh Ame… |
| 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… |
| 25-382 |
Alicia Stroble v. Oklahoma Tax Commission |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-01 |
Pending |
Amici (4) |
indian-country mcgirt-precedent reservation-rights state-taxation tax-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether Oklahoma may tax the income of a Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen who lives and works within the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation that McGirt v. Ok… |
| 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… |
| 25-371 |
Clark's Barber Lounge, LLC, et al. v. Destin Health and Fitness, LLC |
Florida |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-representation conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics per-curiam |
1. Whether a conflict of interest exists for an attorney who gave advice to one client and then represented another client on the same matter, and whe… |
| 25-370 |
Franz A. Wakefield, dba CoolTVNetwork.com, Inc. v. Blackboard, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-panel due-process judicial-disability rule-60b structural-defect tribunal-integrity |
A three-judge panel that includes a judge later suspended for disability cannot satisfy 28 U.S.C. § 46(b) "in the first instance." Just as a two-membe… |
| 25-348 |
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Pending |
|
drug-price-negotiation due-process government-pricing inflation-reduction-act medicare-transactions pharmaceutical-manufacturers |
Whether the IRA implicates an interest of pharmaceutical manufacturers that is protected by the Due Process Clause. |
| 25-341 |
EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
damages-evaluation due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit jury-award seventh-amendment |
Whether the Federal Circuit violated the Seventh Amendment by overturning the jury's damages award based on its own evaluation of the sufficiency of t… |
| 25-308 |
Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Pending |
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… |
| 25-284 |
Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
book-censorship first-amendment free-speech government-action library-access viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether those book-removal decisions are subject to scrutiny under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. |
| 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… |
| 25-268 |
Alex Emric Jones, et al. v. Erica Lafferty, et al. |
Connecticut |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-sanction constitutional-review defamation first-amendment media-liability public-figure |
This case presents multiple constitutional questions of first impression involving the use of a punitive administrative Death Penalty Sanction for sma… |
| 25-253 |
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, et al. v. Michael Howe, Secretary of State of North Dakota |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Pending |
Amici (12) |
civil-rights implied-right-of-action private-plaintiffs section-1983 statutory-interpretation voting-rights |
Whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, is enforceable by private plaintiffs through 42 U.S.C. § 1983, an implied right of acti… |
| 25-243 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-interpretation equal-protection legislative-redistricting majority-minority-district racial-gerrymandering voting-rights-act |
Alabama's 2021 congressional districting plan was preliminarily enjoined under §2 of the Voting Rights Act because it splintered one community of inte… |
| 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… |
| 25-223 |
LegitScript LLC v. PharmacyChecker.com LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust-injury antitrust-standing clayton-act federal-courts private-right-action treble-damages |
Does a private plaintiff have standing to enforce antitrust laws when the primary purpose of its business is to facilitate unlawful activity by others… |
| 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… |
| 25-171 |
Dimetri Alexander Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-prosecution enterprise-structure legal-distinction procedural-requirement racketeering statutory-interpretation |
In a prosecution for racketeering related offenses, does the enterprise structure need to be distinct from that inherent in the racketeering activity … |
| 25-169 |
Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advisory-opinion alternative-ruling appellate-review dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) Whether a district court, after first deciding it lacks subject matter jurisdiction and dismissing with prejudice a cause of action, retains the p… |
| 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.… |
| 25-118 |
Hood River Distillers, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bargaining-impasse judicial-review labor-law national-labor-relations-board substantial-evidence unilateral-changes |
1. Does review for "substantial evidence" require courts to ensure that the Board's decision is reasonably supported by the evidence as a whole, inclu… |
| 25-104 |
Joe Louis Adams, Jr. v. 3D Systems, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-clause civil-rights double-jeopardy electronic-filing jurisdiction pro-se-litigant |
1. Plaintiff submits agreement to the court that
was used to set the Counter claim for the
defendant... The plaintiff notes in the order
from the j… |
| 25-107 |
Leah Gilliam v. David Gerregano, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Revenue, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
first-amendment free-speech government-speech license-plate public-forum state-regulation |
Whether the messages paid for and chosen by car owners on personalized license plates—commonly known as "vanity" plates—are government speech. |
| 25-103 |
BofI Federal Bank, nka Axos Bank v. Charles Matthew Erhart |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense burden-shifting employment-law personnel-action sarbanes-oxley whistleblower-protection |
Under AIR-21's two-step framework, can evidence showing an employee's protected activity was a contributing factor in the unfavorable personnel action… |
| 25-88 |
Delco LLC, dba Delco Products v. Leviathan Group LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-award attorney-fees circuit-court-review contract-breach contract-deliverables michigan-law |
1. Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ("Sixth Circuit") erred by not remanding to the District Court to order Leviathan to pro… |
| 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… |
| 25-62 |
Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-17 |
Rehearing |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights judicial-jurisdiction procedural-due-process separation-of-powers ultra-vires |
1. When a judge ignores or removes the requirements for a mandatory hearing as set forth in the language of a statute, and thus violates the separatio… |
| 25-58 |
Andrew Findlay v. Geoquip, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion employment-discrimination limitations-period res-judicata retaliation title-vii |
1. Does the doctrine of res judicata bar a Title VII retaliation claim based on post-employment conduct when the prior lawsuit addressed only pre-term… |
| 25-45 |
Chatom Primary Care, P.C., et al. v. Merck & Co., Inc. |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
adjudicative-proceeding antitrust-liability fraud-doctrine government-deception legal-immunity litigation-misconduct |
Is intentional deception of the government in an adjudicative proceeding completely immunized from antitrust liability so long as the deception succee… |
| 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… |
| 25-16 |
Larry Elliott Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees court-of-appeals district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-recommendation |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ("DC Circuit") err by affirming the order of the U.S. District Court for the Distri… |
| 25-8 |
Matthew Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process honest-services statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness |
I.
Whether the undefined statutory language, "intangible
right of honest services," in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 is
unconstitutionally vague.
II.
Whether th… |
| 24-1325 |
Go New York Tours Inc. v. Gray Line New York Tours, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
factual-inference judicial-interpretation plausibility-standard pleading-requirements summary-adjudication twombly-iqbal |
There is substantial confusion and inconsistency among the lower courts concerning how to interpret and apply the "plausibility" pleading standard, le… |
| 24-1324 |
SAP SE, et al. v. Teradata Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
antitrust-law per-se-rule rule-of-reason sherman-act software-products tying-arrangement |
1. Whether the rule of reason properly governs tying claims under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 1, concerning software products that are tec… |
| 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 … |
| 24-1299 |
Planet Green Cartridges, Inc., a California Corporation v. Amazon.com, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-platforms product-misrepresentation section-230 third-party-content |
1. In early 2022, Plaintiff Planet Green, Inc. ("Planet Green"), a U.S.-based remanufacturer of printer ink cartridges, provided Defendants Amazon.com… |
| 24-1296 |
McKenzie County, North Dakota v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
all-writs-act federal-land judicial-preclusion mineral-royalty property-rights quiet-title-act |
Whether the finality and preclusive effect of prior judgments involving the United States' title to property can be enforced through the All Writs Act… |
| 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… |
| 24-1280 |
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… |
| 24-1251 |
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
… |
| 24-1227 |
Frank L. Slaughter, Jr. v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-licensure disciplinary-proceedings due-process ethical-rules fourteenth-amendment supervisory-authority |
1. Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court erred in failing to hold that Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9, the enforcement provision for alleged ethical vio… |
| 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… |
| 24-1216 |
In Re Micron Technology, Inc., et al. |
|
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-discovery district-court executive-branch national-security protective-order technical-documentation |
Does a district court clearly and indisputably err in ordering production of sensitive technical docu-mentation without applying the standards set for… |
| 24-1208 |
Beck Redden L.L.P. v. Mark A. Cantu |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-question-jurisdiction federal-state-balance judicial-foreclosure legal-malpractice preclusive-effect subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Is a contested federal question in a state law legal malpractice case "substantial," such that it would give rise to federal question jurisdiction … |
| 24-1203 |
Bernhard Jakits v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jury-instructions minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the district court's instructions to the jury
regarding the statutory terms "sexually explicit
conduct" and "lascivious exhibition" were … |
| 24-1194 |
John Doe v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. |
Nevada |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anonymous-investigation elected-officials first-amendment litigation public-figure speech-preparatory |
Are speech preparatory investigations expressive and subject to First Amendment protection? |
| 24-1187 |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-law agency-discretion drug-approval fda-regulation medical-innovation statutory-interpretation |
Congress enacted the Fast Track program to speed the development and approval of certain novel therapies. It required FDA to designate "a new drug" as… |
| 24-1181 |
Matthew T. McLeay v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review argument-revival federal-circuit judicial-discretion legal-precedent waiver |
This Court has made clear "in both civil and criminal Greenlaw v. United States, 554 U.S. 237, 243 (2008).
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 554 U.S. 471,… |
| 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… |
| 24-1109 |
Karl Hansen v. Tesla, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-award issue-preclusion predispute-arbitration sarbanes-oxley statutory-interpretation whistleblower-claim |
1. Whether a confirmed arbitration award on related
or overlapping claims may be given issue-preclusive
effect so as to bar a Sarbanes-Oxley ("SOX")… |
| 24-1102 |
Citizens for Constitutional Integrity v. Census Bureau, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-procedure-act agency-action congressional-apportionment mandamus-act voting-rights |
To apportion U.S. House of Representatives seats, the 14th Amendment, Section 2 (the Reduction Clause), and 2 U.S.C 6 require an additional procedure … |
| 24-1081 |
Saundra Rhodes v. Jessica Gifford |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1988 attorney-fees frcp-54d nominal-verdict rimini-street-precedent taxable-costs |
1. Did the circuit court err in affirming an award of attorney's fees in excess of $800,000 where the Appellee received only a nominal verdict of one-… |
| 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… |
| 24-1023 |
Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-court |
Whether a certificate of appealability should issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) where one or more judges in the state-court habeas proceedings has deter… |
| 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… |
| 24-983 |
Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-13 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
cuban-regime foreign-policy libertad-act private-right-of-action property-confiscation trafficking |
The LIBERTAD Act is an essential pillar of United States foreign policy toward Cuba's hostile and anti-American regime. Title III of that Act creates … |
| 24-967 |
Grande Communications Networks, LLC v. UMG Recordings, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Pending |
|
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… |
| 24-963 |
Elvin Torres-Estrada v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-03-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion |
Whether the inaccurate advice by Mr. Torres-Estrada's rogue attorney to reject a favorable plea agreement during plea negotiations, with the prosecuto… |
| 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 … |
| 24-954 |
Anthony Vetri v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conflict-of-interest criminal-defense cronic-standard effective-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
1. To show a violation of the right to conflict-free counsel when represented by multiple attorneys, only some of whom are conflicted, must a defendan… |
| 24-944 |
Cellspin Soft, Inc. v. Fitbit LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
|
conflict-of-interest due-process investment-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation |
28 U.S.C. § 455 outlines the grounds for disqual ification of judges and magistrates due to potential biases or conflicts of interest. This Honorable … |
| 24-942 |
Patrick Comack v. Leland Dudek, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction mathews-v-eldridge social-security-disability |
I. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ("Appeals Court") violate Supreme Court case precedent when it arbitrarily used a three-part tes… |
| 24-936 |
Andrew Hanson, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-02-28 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
arms-ban common-use constitutional-rights dangerous-weapons second-amendment self-defense |
Whether the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution allows a categorical ban on arms that are indisputably common throughout the United Sta… |
| 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… |
| 24-903 |
Atturo Tire Corporation v. Toyo Tire Corp., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-21 |
Denied |
|
business-expectancy illinois-law litigation-privilege tortious-interference unfair-competition unjust-enrichment |
Respondent Toyo, one of the world's largest tire companies, filed a complaint with the federal International Trade Commission ("ITC") against a group … |
| 24-889 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Granted |
CVSGAmici (4) |
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… |
| 24-867 |
IQVIA Inc. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. |
California |
2025-02-13 |
Dismissed |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure due-process employment-law noncompete-agreement personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction |
A noncompete agreement imposes limitations on an employee's ability to compete against his or her employer immediately after separating from the compa… |
| 24-870 |
AMN Distribution, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. v. Athena Cosmetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees fraud legal-standard misconduct prevailing-party reasonableness |
Should attorney time spent due to a prevailing party's fraud and misconduct be presumed unreasonable as a matter of law and excluded from prevailing p… |
| 24-850 |
Andrew Kamal v. Femtosense, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation transfer-requirements |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the Clark v. Busey transfer requirements under 28 U.S.C. § 1631.
Whether the denial of transfer… |
| 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… |
| 24-787 |
Marco Destin, Inc., et al. v. Shaul Levy, Individually and as Agent of L&L Wings, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process evidence-tampering federal-courts fraud-on-court hazel-atlas judicial-integrity |
1. In Hazel -Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford -Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238 (1944), did the Court impose a nondiscretionary, mandatory duty on all federal cour… |
| 24-792 |
Christine Reule, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing constitutional-challenge declaratory-relief injunctive-relief ministerial-capacity state-court-officials |
This is a case that, as in the Court's Whole Woman's Health proceeding, the state's actors, affirmed by the Fifth Circuit, claim that Petitioners cann… |
| 24-764 |
Harris Brumfield, Trustee for Ascent Trust v. IBG LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-procedure diligence-requirement fraud-motion judgment-relief judicial-discretion rule-60b3 |
1. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(3) empowers parties to seek relief from an adverse judgment, upon a showing of "fraud," "misrepresentation, o… |
| 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… |
| 24-732 |
Children's Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
content-moderation first-amendment government-collaboration interactive-platform speech-suppression state-action |
Does Skinner v. Ry. Labor Executives' Ass'n, 489 U.S. 602 (1989), mandate that Meta, an interactive computer service provider which receives 47 U.S.C.… |
| 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… |
| 24-712 |
Daniel Peterson v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
arbitration-agreements article-iii constitutional-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-oversight public-policy |
A century ago, many courts declined to enforce arbitration agreements, concerned that arbitration as a non-judicial process could bypass essential jud… |
| 24-714 |
T. W. v. New York State Board of Law Examiners, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
disability-discrimination ex-parte-young federal-law injunctive-relief ongoing-violation sovereign-immunity |
Whether a plaintiff who suffers ongoing harm caused by a state official's prior unlawful conduct is subject to an "ongoing violation" of federal law, … |
| 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? |
| 24-707 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conflict-of-interest due-process impartiality judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics right-to-appeal |
Preamble: The Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court's Order, overlooking the significant fact that the presiding judge was disqualified due to a… |
| 24-696 |
Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Company Limited v. Wheatland Tube Company |
Federal Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law antidumping-duties commerce-clause judicial-review material-injury scope-ruling |
Under 19 U.S.C. 1673, Congress directed two agencies, the Department of Commerce ("Commerce") and the International Trade Commission (the "Commission"… |
| 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… |
| 24-676 |
Friends of George's, Inc. v. Steven J. Mulroy, in His Official and Individual Capacity as the District Attorney General of Shelby County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing content-based-restriction first-amendment judicial-review statutory-interpretation viewpoint-discrimination |
When evaluating a constitutional challenge to a state statute, may a federal court unilaterally narrow the statute's scope in a manner that contradict… |
| 24-653 |
Zembrka, et al. v. American Girl, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
e-commerce interactive-website minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction virtual-presence |
Whether an e-commerce seller's virtual presence and conduct – operating an interactive website accessible in a forum state – constitutes "minimum cont… |
| 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 … |
| 24-604 |
Xiaoqing Zheng v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-deference judicial-interpretation kisor-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Whether the limits on agency deference articulated in Kisor limit the deference owed to the United States Sentencing Commission's commentary on intend… |
| 24-607 |
Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. |
California |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
|
access-to-justice civil-procedure discovery-referee due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment |
Whether the Due Process Clause, equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and the litigants' right to access justi… |
| 24-568 |
Michael J. Bost, et al. v. Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (29)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
article-iii-standing election-law elections-clause electors-clause federal-preemption state-regulations |
The sole question presented here is whether
Petitioners, as federal candidates, have pleaded
sufficient factual allegations to show Article III
standi… |
| 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… |
| 24-524 |
Lighting Defense Group v. SnapRays, dba SnapPower |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
calder-test forum-contacts intentional-conduct out-of-forum-conduct personal-jurisdiction walden-test |
In Calder v. Jones, this Court held that California courts could exercise personal jurisdiction over Florida defendants "because of their intentional … |
| 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… |
| 24-503 |
Upstate Jobs Party, et al. v. Peter S. Kosinski, New York State Board of Elections Co-Chair Commissioner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
campaign-finance contribution-limits first-amendment judicial-scrutiny political-speech quid-pro-quo |
When the government restricts political speech, to satisfy the First Amendment, the government must "point to record evidence or legislative findings … |
| 24-505 |
Robert L. Ignasiak, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
|
collateral-review motion-to-vacate procedural-default retroactive-application section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
May a United States Supreme Court case of statutory interpretation, which was held to apply retroactively in collateral proceedings under circuit prec… |
| 24-498 |
Monaghan Farms, Inc. v. City and County of Denver, Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-taking due-process eminent-domain kelo-doctrine property-rights public-use |
The City and County of Denver condemned 8,360 acres of land from Petitioner Monaghan Farms as part of its land acquisition for the creation of the Den… |
| 24-501 |
V.V.V. & Sons Edible Oils Limited v. Meenakashi Overseas, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-damages circuit-precedent due-process federal-statute frivolous-appeal sanctions |
1.) May an appellate court award damages for an appeal they find frivolous when a test is espoused that is neither supported by the case precedence of… |
| 24-479 |
Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-caption circuit-court defendant-naming district-court judicial-procedure jurisdictional-issue |
1. Whether the Circuit Judges of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit namely Judge Katsas, Judge Rao and Judge Childs erred when … |
| 24-492 |
Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights material-fact nonmovant-evidence probable-cause summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision, clearly ignoring the nonmovant's (petitioner-plaintiff's) theories of prosecution and factual evidence set fo… |
| 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… |
| 24-408 |
Raging Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Brad Packer, Derivatively on Behalf of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
article-iii fiduciary-duty securities-exchange-act standing-doctrine statutory-violation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit apply the correct standard of law, under Article III of the United States Constitutio… |
| 24-370 |
Valley Health System, LLC, dba Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, et al. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
administrative-interpretation collective-bargaining dues-checkoff labor-law ninth-circuit-review nlrb-deference |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in deferring to the National Labor Relations Board's interpretation of the National Labor Relations Act as it applies … |
| 24-367 |
Scott York v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brain-computer-interface constitutional-rights directed-energy-weapons due-process judicial-misconduct sua-sponte-order |
A. DO THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS PANELS ' (EN BANC) RULING, THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ' ORIGINAL RULING, AND THE UNITED STATES DISTRI… |
| 24-335 |
Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. |
New York |
2024-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
contract-law due-process forum-selection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permit the exercise of personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant lacking any contacts with… |
| 24-318 |
BASF Corporation v. Bader Farms, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
appellate-procedure circuit-split claim-processing cross-appeal-rule judicial-discretion jurisdictional-issue |
"[I]t takes a cross-appeal to justify a remedy in favor of an appellee." Greenlaw v. United States, 554 U.S. 237, 244-245 (2008). This is an "invetera… |
| 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… |
| 24-316 |
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Braidwood Management, Inc., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (27) |
appointments-clause constitutional-defect cost-sharing preventive-services statutory-provision task-force |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the structure of the Task Force violates the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, … |
| 24-309 |
Gabriel Gray, et al. v. Kathy Jennings, Attorney General of Delaware, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-liberties constitutional-rights irreparable-injury judicial-review legal-standing second-amendment |
Whether the infringement of Second Amendment rights constitutes per se irreparable injury. |
| 24-299 |
Kent Knox Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-misconduct due-process equal-protection jurisdiction llc-law racketeering |
In 2014 California implemented the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, or RULLCA, no longer permitting professional LLCs in California. Dur… |
| 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… |
| 24-292 |
Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., et al. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure evidence-standard factual-findings harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review |
This petition concerns core appellate procedure. In reviewing bench trials, the courts of appeals must "discuss" and "analyze" the district court's fi… |
| 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… |
| 24-289 |
Yolanda D. Tyson v. Town of Ramapo, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act comparator-analysis employment-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas-test prima-facie-case racial-discrimination |
May an employer dispute plaintiff's prima facie case of racial discrimination by disputing the similarly situated status of comparators on a ground ma… |
| 24-267 |
John Abdelsayed, et al. v. Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Requested |
circuit-split dismissal-without-prejudice fee-shifting judicial-discretion prevailing-party statutory-interpretation |
1. Does a dismissal without prejudice that reestablishes the pre-suit status quo make a defendant the "prevailing party" under 17 U.S.C. §§ 505 and 12… |
| 24-270 |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-interpretation line-extension medicaid-rebate new-drug-application statutory-construction |
1. Does a decision that upholds an agency statutory interpretation merely because it is "perfectly sensible" or "reasonable and consistent with the st… |
| 24-273 |
SBFO Operator No. 3, LLC, et al. v. Onex Corporation, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
|
boilerplate-release civil-procedure dispositive-motion motion-to-amend rico-liability wire-fraud |
This petition presents three questions on which the circuits disagree:
1. Does a boilerplate release, induced as an integral part of a wire fraud sch… |
| 24-262 |
Stacy Makhnevich v. Gregory S. Bougopoulos, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Dismissed |
|
consumer-protection debt-collection fdcpa-violation legal-standing misrepresentation unfair-practices |
Whether a debt collector misrepresentations to consumers that an entity (such as an Unincorporated Association) on behalf of which the debt collection… |
| 24-254 |
Gordon Wood v. Winnebago Industries, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
consumer-protection consumer-rights statutory-interpretation warranty-act warranty-obligations warranty-representative |
1. Does a warrantor remain liable for its warranty obligations when it designates a representative pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 2307 to fulfill those oblig… |
| 24-247 |
Kenneth Kelley v. William S. Bohrer, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mens-rea vehicular-homicide |
Does this Court's clearly established precedent require an explanation and understanding of the elements of each charge to which a defendant pleads gu… |
| 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… |
| 24-188 |
Menorah Mivtachim Insurance Ltd., et al. v. John D. Sheehan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-court claim-dismissal legal-reasoning loss-causation summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming a summary judgment decision by the district court that failed to provide a reason fo… |
| 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 |
Granted |
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 … |
| 24-165 |
Trina Wilkins, et al. v. Genzyme Corporation |
First Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
class-action equitable-tolling fairness-act federal-jurisdiction minimal-diversity relation-back-doctrine |
I. Whether the Class Action Fairness Act creates a combination of both Federal Question jurisdiction and Diversity jurisdiction, termed minimal divers… |
| 24-151 |
United States v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-12 |
Judgment Issued |
|
due-process fifth-amendment legislative-jurisdiction palestinian-authority personal-jurisdiction terrorism-civil-suits |
In the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act of 2019 (PSJVTA), Pub. L. No. 116-94, Div. J, Tit. IX, § 903, 133 Stat. 3082, Congr… |
| 24-139 |
Lei Jiang, et al. v. Kevin Chu, et al. |
California |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
|
business-records deposition-subpoena due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-to-compel real-estate-fraud |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was violated when the California Superior Court for the County of Alameda denied Petitioner… |
| 24-135 |
James G. Robinson, et al. v. Armin Azod, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
|
arbitration-award civil-procedure contract federal-arbitration-act federal-courts forum-clause forum-selection-clause judicial-estoppel manifest-disregard venue venue-selection |
This case presents two important federal questions arising from an arbitration award confirmed by the United States District Court for the Central Dis… |
| 24-120 |
David Schieferle v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
|
2nd-amendment atf-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms firearms-silencer national-firearms-act second-amendment self-defense silencers |
Whether items such as inline fuel filters and firearms solvent traps, which might be able to function to muffle or silence the report of a firearm, ca… |
| 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… |
| 24-77 |
GeLab Cosmetics LLC v. Zhuhai Aobo Cosmetics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Requested |
abstention circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-courts judicial-proceedings parallel-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's stay of federal proceedings under the Colorado River doctrine when substantial dou… |
| 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. |
| 24-40 |
Leonard L. Grigsby, et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency administrative-agency-finding burden-of-proof funding-exclusion independent-review judicial-review presumption-of-correctness research-activities research-and-development-tax-credit summary-judgment tax-credit |
1. Whether, under a proper application of law, an administrative agency finding should be given the presumption of correctness when it is uncontrovert… |
| 24-18 |
D&T Partners, L.L.C., Successor in Interest to ACET Venture Partners, Directly and Derivatively on Behalf of ACET Global, L.L.C., et al. v. Baymark Partners Management, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
|
h-j-inc-v-nw-bell-tel-co pattern-of-racketeering pattern-requirement predicate-acts racketeering-activity related-acts rico-statute single-scheme substantial-period substantial-period-of-time |
In order to maintain a civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO") claim, a plaintiff must plead a "pattern" of racketeering act… |
| 24-20 |
Miriam Fuld, et al. v. Palestine Liberation Organization, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5) |
anti-terrorism-act consent-to-jurisdiction due-process fifth-amendment palestinian-authority palestinian-liberation-organization personal-jurisdiction promoting-security-and-justice-for-victims-of-terr statutory-interpretation |
Whether the PSJVTA violates the Fifth Amendment. |
| 23-1365 |
United States v. Brent Brewbaker |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
|
antitrust antitrust-law bid-rigging horizontal-agreement per-se-rule sherman-act vertical-relationship |
Whether the existence of a vertical relationship between the competing bidders precluded the application of the established per se rule against horizo… |
| 23-1374 |
Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection jail-intake procedural-guideposts procedure qualified-immunity racial-segregation |
(1) Whether a jail intake officer with no responsibility
for classification or cell assignments nevertheless
had a clearly established constitutiona… |
| 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 … |
| 23-1343 |
Darwin Quinones-Pimentel, et al. v. Nicholas W. Cannon, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-tort federal-agents fourth-amendment frank-v-delaware monetary-damages search-warrant |
I. WHETHER A BIVENS ACTION BE MAINTAINED AGAINST FEDERAL AGENTS AND ACTORS WHEN A SEARCH WARRANT IS OBTAINED IN VIOLATION OF THE DOCTRINE ESTABLISHED … |
| 23-1338 |
Martin Shkreli v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affiliate-liability civil-procedure disgorgement equity equity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction sec sec-enforcement traditional-equity-practice unlawful-gains |
In Liu v. SEC , 140 S. Ct. 1936 (2020), this Court held that a federal court's congressionally granted power to issue "equitable relief" in an SEC act… |
| 23-1331 |
William Christopher Schroeder v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
congressional-apportionment constitutional-interpretation electoral-representation equal-representation-in-house political-question-doctrine population-based-apportionment standing standing-doctrine us-constitution-amendment-14-section-2 us-constitution-article-1-section-2 vote-dilution voting-power-dilution |
Representation in the House is not determined by population. U.S. Census Bureau Apportionment Tables show the gap between the states with the largest … |
| 23-1320 |
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County |
California |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
can the consumer's home state assert specific per brand-name-manufacturer due-process generic-drug generic-drugs innovator-liability personal-jurisdiction preemption product-liability specific-jurisdiction warning-label-liability |
When a plaintiff alleges injury from the consumption of a generic drug, can the consumer's home state assert specific personal jurisdiction over an ou… |
| 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… |
| 23-1248 |
Keresa Richardson v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-courts constitutional-law election-law equal-protection judicial-elections one-man-one-vote state-representation texas voting-districts |
Question 1: Does the Equal Protection Clause's one man,
one vote requirement apply to the election
of Texas appellate court justices so as to
requi… |
| 23-1241 |
Jeffrey Fay Pike v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice disqualification due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding fifth-amendment prosecution-witness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
I. Does it deny a defendant due process of law to disqualify trial counsel based on a purported conflict of interest following the ex parte considerat… |
| 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… |
| 23-1176 |
Sean Houston, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction sixth-circuit standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction |
J. Whether the court of appeals of the United States for the Sixth Circuit made a presumably erroneous judgement In Affirming the Lower Court, sua spo… |
| 23-1172 |
Kristen Lovell, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Georgia |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights critical-infrastructure election-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment georgia-constitution ninth-amendment official-immunity official-misconduct sovereign-immunity voting-rights |
The case before this Honorable Court concerns the misapplication of the grant of sovereign immunity for elections officials in Georgia that have faile… |
| 23-1145 |
Ojin Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-or-controversy criminal-conviction deportation deportation-consequences federal-jurisdiction habeas immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standing strickland-standard |
Whether the real threat of deportation as a result of a federal criminal conviction establishes standing and a real case in controversy for federal co… |
| 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… |
| 23-1133 |
Rick Sasso, dba Indiana Spine Group v. Marc Harding, dba Harding Law Firm |
Iowa |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure conflict-of-laws due-process interstate-commerce interstate-litigation jurisdiction-analysis legal-consultation medical-malpractice personal-jurisdiction |
Whether Iowa courts have specific personal jurisdiction, consistent with due process and fundamental fairness, over an Indiana doctor who got a call i… |
| 23-1122 |
Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (45) |
adults-access constitutional-rights content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech protected-speech rational-basis rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny |
This Court has repeatedly held that States may rationally restrict minors' access to sexual materials, but such restrictions must withstand strict scr… |
| 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… |
| 23-1101 |
Jacob N. Ferguson v. Robbin M. Owen |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alternative-means d.c.-circuit free-exercise government-permit religious-exercise religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-question-of-law seat-of-government substantial-burden |
1. Whether religious exercise must be required, central, or important to a system of religious belief.
2. Whether the availability of alternative mea… |
| 23-1093 |
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., et al. v. Zachary Silbersher, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
false-claims-act federal-administrative-hearing federal-report inter-partes-review public-disclosure-bar qui-tam |
1. Whether a relator can avoid the public disclosure bar by "stitching together" public disclosures.
2. Whether inter partes review (IPR)—which this … |
| 23-1089 |
Coronavirus Reporter, et al. v. Apple Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure civil-rights digital-distribution due-process free-speech market-definition monopoly-conduct per-se-rule software-tying standing |
1. Did the District Court err in denying leave to amend a first-to-file developer antitrust lawsuit concerning free digital apps, when Petitioner Dr. … |
| 23-1060 |
Richard Rose, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
at-large-elections electoral-model policy-interests section-2 state-interests thornburg-v-gingles vote-dilution voting-rights-act |
1. In a vote-dilution challenge to at-large elections imposed by state law, does Section 2 also require a plaintiff to propose a remedy that does not … |
| 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… |
| 23-1042 |
Sean Gaskin, et al. v. Stephen May, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
common-law-powers district-court-powers district-of-columbia-court-reorganization-act federal-actors federal-tort-claims-act sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation westfall-amendment |
1. Whether FTCA's 1988 "Westfall" amendment created immunity that did not previously exist, thus displacing non-FTCA actions that do not rely on the F… |
| 23-1041 |
Flying Crown Subdivision Addition No. 1 and Addition No. 2 Property Owners Association v. Alaska Railroad Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
1871-land-grants alaska-railroad alaska-railroad-act easement exclusive-use-easement land-grant property-law property-rights railroad-rights-of-way statutory-interpretation |
When interpreting railroad rights-of-way granted by federal statutes, courts look to the condition of the country when the statutes were enacted, as w… |
| 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… |
| 23-1017 |
Marc Thielman, et al. v. Lavonne Griffin-Valade, Oregon Secretary of State, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-security ballot-trafficking chain-of-custody election-integrity election-process public-confidence signature-verification standing-doctrine vote-by-mail voter-confidence voter-rolls |
do petitioners have standing to challenge oregon's vote-by-mail election system due to the loss of their freedom caused by oregon's confidence-destroy… |
| 23-1012 |
Teri Kealoha Sahm v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights court-documentation document-forgery due-process forgery fraud legal-proceedings ninth-circuit portfolio-servicing procedural-irregularity standing |
The Organic Act of 1871 was repealed in 1874. And, strangely enough, the end result of creating a second Municipal Corporation operating within the Di… |
| 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. |
| 23-978 |
Loan Phuong v. Cong Van Nguyen |
Virginia |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
|
6th-amendment bias due-process impartiality judicial-bias legal-procedure prejudice sixth-amendment supreme-court virginia-law virginia-supreme-court |
Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's decision caused the Petitioner to suffer damages when it refused to rehear her case against the Respondent in vio… |
| 23-984 |
Joseph Dixon v. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation standing |
I. Whether the district court improperly denied
Petitioner pro se due process and equal protection
of law, when it denied Petitioner the right to
a… |
| 23-970 |
NVIDIA Corporation, et al. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (18) |
class-action expert-opinion falsity falsity-allegations internal-documents pleading-requirements pslra scienter securities-fraud |
1. Whether plaintiffs seeking to allege scienter under the PSLRA based on allegations about internal company documents must plead with particularity t… |
| 23-956 |
Roy Bracken, et al. v. City of Ketchum, Idaho, et al. |
Idaho |
2024-03-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-use-permit discretionary-process due-process procedural-due-process property-rights substantive-due-process |
Whether All Rights To Due Process Required By Federal, State, And Municipal Law May Be Denied Because One Lacks Entitlement To A Government Benefit So… |
| 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… |
| 23-921 |
Mark Jerome Johnson Blount v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment enforcement-deterrence pre-enforcement-action pre-enforcement-challenge reasonable-fear-of-enforcement second-amendment standing standing-doctrine |
Does Petitioner, in a pre-enforcement action brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act, have to allege that he has already violated the law or "will … |
| 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. |
| 23-893 |
Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment algorithm digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-search private-company probable-cause search-and-seizure technology-search warrant-requirement |
Does the Fourth Amendment require police to get a warrant before they open a digital file that was flagged by a private technology company's computer … |
| 23-899 |
Iftikar Ahmed v. Oak Management Corporation |
Connecticut |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
|
arbitration arbitration-doctrine civil-procedure court-proceedings damages-award degen-v-united-states federal-arbitration-act fugitive-disentitlement inherent-powers judicial-power |
1. Under the Federal Arbitration Act, ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 10(a)(4), does an arbitrator "exceed[] [his] powers" by applying the fugitive disentitlement… |
| 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 … |
| 23-834 |
Elizabeth Stafford v. International Business Machines Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-discrimination arbitration arbitration-agreement civil-rights confidentiality-provision due-process federal-arbitration-act first-amendment judicial-document |
Whether an arbitration agreement can be used to keep an arbitration award holding an employer liable for age discrimination under the Age Discriminati… |
| 23-833 |
Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry Lehocky, in His Official Capacity as Board Chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
article-iii civil-rights complaint-amendment ethics-rule free-speech jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction mootness standing standing-inquiry time-of-filing-rule |
For two centuries, this Court has maintained the "time of-filing" rule: "jurisdiction depending on the condition of the party is governed by that cond… |
| 23-827 |
Clifton Capital Group, LLC v. Bradley Sharp |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii article-three-standing bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal bankruptcy-standing chapter-11 chapter-eleven creditor creditor-rights injury-in-fact standing trustee |
If a bankruptcy plan proposes to pay creditors in full with interest, does a creditor who alleges that a bankruptcy court order will delay its receipt… |
| 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. |
| 23-795 |
Gregory Abelar, et al. v. International Business Machines Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
age-discrimination age-discrimination-in-employment-act arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements circuit-split eeoc-filing eeoc-filing-requirements employment-law gilmer-v-interstate-johnson-lane substantive-rights |
The question presented in this Petition is whether an arbitration agreement can be used to bar an employee from pursuing a claim under the Age Discrim… |
| 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… |
| 23-800 |
Niki-Alexander Shetty, et al. v. Thomas Block, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure consumer-protection contract-law federal-courts rescission statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations statutory-construction tila-rescission truth-in-lending-act |
The Truth-in-Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1635 (or "TILA"), requires that a borrower tell a lender within three years of her intent to rescind the loan. J… |
| 23-788 |
Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc., dba Hope Pharmaceuticals v. Fagron Compounding Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
circuit-split drug-regulation federal-law federal-preemption food-and-drug-administration preemption state-law state-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether the FDCA preempts state laws prohibiting the in-state sale of unapproved drugs whose sale is also prohibited as a matter of federal law by the… |
| 23-763 |
JDH Pacific, Inc. v. Precision-Hayes International, Inc. |
Texas |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-standard clear-and-unmistakable-evidence evidence-standard first-options-precedent first-options-v-kaplan judicial-interpretation post-termination post-termination-claims state-supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-supreme-court |
Whether a state supreme court can disregard the "clear and unmistakable evidence" standard established by the United States Supreme Court in First Opt… |
| 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… |
| 23-741 |
Iftikar A. Ahmed v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure cross-appeal-rule greenlaw-v-united-states judicial-discretion jurisdiction remand remedy-limitation substantive-law |
Whether the cross-appeal rule, which prohibits the granting of a remedy in favor of an appellee absent the filing of a cross-appeal, is jurisdictional… |
| 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… |
| 23-707 |
Yossi Govrin, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. |
California |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling estoppel government-taking property-rights standing substantive-due-process takings |
Whether a party with close ties to the government should be allowed to proceed with litigating its claims based on equitable tolling and/or estoppel g… |
| 23-693 |
Yi-Chi Shih, aka Yugi Shi, aka Yichi Shih v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure deference export-controls regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference technical-regulations |
The question presented is whether district courts may, under Skidmore, give deference to an agency's interpretation of its own technical regulations w… |
| 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… |
| 23-670 |
Marc S. Kirschner, Solely in His Capacity as Trustee of the Millennium Lender Claim Trust v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
financial-regulation investment-instrument junk-bonds reves-standard reves-v-ernst-young secondary-markets securities-law statutory-interpretation syndicated-loans |
1. Whether notes issued as part of a syndicated loan are "securities" under the securities laws.
2. Whether the Court should revisit the Reves standa… |
| 23-668 |
Warren King v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-determination jury-selection racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's decision was based on "an unreasonable determination" of the facts. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2).
2. Whether the Geo… |
| 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. |
| 23-600 |
Dan Robert, et al. v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-effects armed-forces constitutional-rights covid-19-vaccine experimental-injection experimental-medical-treatment judicial-review medical-coercion military-service separation-of-powers vaccine-mandate |
1. Whether the unlawful implementation of the harmful Covid vaccine mandate in the Armed Services properly evades judicial review based on repeal of t… |
| 23-571 |
Madeleine Pickens v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
6324(a)(2) decedent-property estate-tax estate-taxes higley-v-commissioner iRS-authority personal-liability statutory-interpretation tax-lien trust-beneficiaries |
When an individual passes away, the executor of his estate must pay estate taxes. If the executor fails to pay, the Internal Revenue Service may enfor… |
| 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… |
| 23-562 |
McDonald's USA, LLC, et al. v. Leinani Deslandes, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
antitrust antitrust-law cross-market-effects horizontal-component horizontal-restraints intrabrand-restraint market-competition per-se-rule rule-of-reason sherman-act |
"The rule of reason is the accepted standard for testing whether a practice restrains trade in violation" of the Sherman Act. Leegin Creative Leather … |
| 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? |
| 23-552 |
Ambassador Animal Hospital, Ltd. v. Elanco Animal Health Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
circuit-split fax fcc-regulation hobbs-act junk-fax-prevention-act marketing telephone-consumer-protection-act unsolicited-advertisement |
Defendants sent brochures to Ambassador's fax machine inviting the veterinarian to call a salesperson and RSVP to attend a free educational dinner pro… |
| 23-500 |
James Gimenez v. Franklin County, Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
at-large-elections constitutional-law constitutional-scrutiny election-systems equal-protection gerrymandering racial-polarization redistricting voting-rights |
Whether the Washington Voting Rights Act is subject to strict scrutiny. |
| 23-504 |
Photoplaza, Inc., et al. v. Herbal Brands, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
fair-play-and-substantial-justice forum-state minimum-contacts nationwide-sales non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction substantial-connection suit-related-conduct third-party-fulfillment |
Whether a seller whose products ship nationwide is subject to personal jurisdiction in every forum into which even one of its products is shipped. |
| 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… |
| 23-495 |
Lucine Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split facebook-v-duguid number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Does the plain language of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's ("TCPA") definition of an Automatic Telephone Dialing System ("ATDS") at 47 U.S.C. … |
| 23-482 |
Catherine Craig-Myers, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Meyers, Deceased v. Otis Elevator Company, et al. |
Florida |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process elevator-safety jury-trial osha osha-safety-laws preemption wrongful-death |
1. Do Florida trial and appellate courts violate constitutional rights to a jury trial and due process by refusing to admit into evidence culpable neg… |
| 23-484 |
Jose Trevino, et al. v. Susan Soto Palmer, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
fourteenth-amendment hispanic-voting-power judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering section-2 section-2-claim three-judge-panel voting-rights-act |
Alongside Defendant State of Washington, Intervenor Defendant-Petitioners ("Soto Palmer Intervenors") defended against a Voting Rights Act ("VRA") Sec… |
| 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). |
| 23-428 |
Chinonyerem Osuagwu v. Home Point Financial Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction form-1099 fourteenth-amendment power-of-attorney property-rights standing |
Did the State Court violate the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right when it empowered one of the respondents to sign his (the petitioner's) name a… |
| 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… |
| 23-414 |
Devon Archer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion judicial-discretion manifest-injustice new-trial new-trial-standard rule-33 second-circuit weight-of-evidence |
1. Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33 permits a district court to order a new trial "if the interest of justice so requires." The district court he… |
| 23-395 |
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
abortion abortion-medication administrative-procedure-act drug-regulation fda fda-approval generic-drugs medical-safety mifepristone subpart-h |
1. Whether Cross-Petitioners' challenge to FDA's 2000 mifepristone approval is timely.
2. Whether FDA's 2000 approval of mifepristone under Subpart H… |
| 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… |
| 23-373 |
DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights first-amendment free-speech naacp-precedent naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action protest-leader-liability protest-liability |
Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action maki… |
| 23-368 |
Huntington Ingalls Incorporated v. Lynn Barrosse, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
exclusive-remedy federal-preemption longshore-and-harbor-workers-compensation-act maritime-employee navigable-waters preemption state-law-tort state-law-tort-claim workers-compensation |
The question presented is whether the Fifth Circuit correctly held—in conflict with the decisions of other federal and state courts of appeals—that an… |
| 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… |
| 23-330 |
Ani Creation, Inc., dba Rasta, et al. v. City of Myrtle Beach Board of Zoning Appeals, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
|
amortization board-of-zoning-appeals business-rights civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process penn-central-test takings takings-clause zoning zoning-ordinance |
The City of Myrtle Beach enacted a new zoning Ordinance in 2018 which outlawed the sale of legal consumer goods being sold by Petitioners for the past… |
| 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… |
| 23-284 |
H. C., Individually and on Behalf of J. C., a Child With a Disability, et al. v. New York City Department of Education |
Second Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorneys-fees court-discretion disability-rights discretion due-process due-process-hearing educational-agency idea-act individuals-with-disabilities-education-act prevailing-rates settlement-offers |
1. How does 20 U.S.C. § 1415(i)(3)(G) affect an award of attorneys' fees under the IDEA?
2. What, if any, limit(s) constrain(s) a federal court's dis… |
| 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… |
| 23-236 |
Danco Laboratories, L.L.C. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Judgment Issued |
|
administrative-procedure-act administrative-record agency-deference article-iii-standing circuit-split fda-drug-approval judicial-review national-scope preliminary-injunction |
In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Danco's drug Mifeprex for termination of early pregnancy based on the agency's expert judgmen… |
| 23-223 |
Charles J. Jenkins v. TriWest Healthcare Alliance, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-review rule-56 separation-of-powers stare-decisis sua-sponte |
1. Whether the triumvirate overstepped their
authority when they decided (sua sponte) to invoke,
incite, insurrect, or for the lack of a better desc… |
| 23-211 |
Joseph G. Wortley v. James Juranitch, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bad-faith bad-faith-filing bankruptcy bankruptcy-petition business-divorce closely-held-business closely-held-company deadlock insider-filing involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition |
Whether an insider's involuntary bankruptcy petition against his closely-held business for the express purpose of "breaking a deadlock" or to get a "b… |
| 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… |
| 23-170 |
Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (12) |
admissions-criteria asian-american-discrimination asian-americans constitutional-law equal-protection fourthcircuit racial-balancing school-diversity summary-judgment |
The question presented is whether the Board violated the Equal Protection Clause when it overhauled the admissions criteria at TJ. |
| 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… |
| 23-131 |
Falkbuilt Ltd., et al. v. DIRTT Environmental Solutions, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
alternative-forum circuit-split civil-procedure forum-non-conveniens gulf-oil-corp-v-gilbert international-comity international-litigation jurisdictional-dismissal multi-defendant-case piper-aircraft-co-v-reyno |
Whether, in a multi-defendant case, district courts are legally prohibited from dismissing any defendant under the doctrine of forum non conveniens un… |
| 23-95 |
Philip Esformes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
|
attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure disqualification forfeiture judicial-fact-finding prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
While investigating petitioner for alleged health-care fraud, federal prosecutors seized hundreds of petitioner's attorney-client privileged documents… |
| 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… |
| 23-78 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion dismissal-on-the-merits judgment-on-merits mandamus mandamus-relief moses-h-cone-memorial-hospital-v-mercury-construct pleading-deficiencies preclusion procedural-dismissal semtek-v-lockheed |
Petitioner's prayed 9 reliefs were National importance of having the US Supreme Court decide or conflict with USSC ruling, or importance of similarly … |
| 23-80 |
Jeffrey Laydon, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cooperatieve Rabobank U.A., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
circuit-split civil-procedure domestic-application extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality federal-commodities federal-securities judicial-interpretation legal-precedent precedent statutory-focus statutory-interpretation |
Whether, to decide if a claim involves a domestic application of a statute, courts may consider factors other than whether the conduct relevant to 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 … |
| 23-53 |
Frederick Bates v. City of San Jose, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process frcp-60 law-of-the-case miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit res-judicata |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling affirming the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's independent action on the basis of collateral estoppel and… |
| 23-42 |
Lawrence Pascal v. Concentra, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
|
autodialer automatic-telephone-dialing-system borden database-applications facebook-v-duguid random-number-generator random-or-sequential-number-generator sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act |
47 U.S.C. § 227(a)(1) of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") defines an automatic telephone dialing system ("autodialer") as equipment whic… |
| 23-35 |
City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. v. Ivana Kirola, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure class-action injunctive-relief legal-injury standing trial-record unnamed-class-members unnamed-plaintiffs |
Whether a court may order injunctive relief in a case where the sole named plaintiff failed to prove she suffered any legal injury at trial but the tr… |
| 23-36 |
Liam C. Lattin v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-by-case case-by-case-analysis categorical deterrence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment social-cost suppression |
In Herring v. United States, 555 U.S. 135 (2009), this Court established the framework for determining when evidence must be suppressed under the Excl… |
| 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… |
| 23-4 |
John Thomas Minemyer v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
internal-revenue-code irs-penalties legislative-history legislative-intent penalty-assessment statutory-interpretation supervisory-approval tax-code tax-court |
Does the legislative history and intent combined with the Tax Court Judicial history, the internal revenue manual instructions, and the Supreme Courts… |
| 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… |
| 22-1233 |
Law Offices of Crystal Moroney, P.C. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appropriations-clause cfpb civil-investigative-demand consumer-financial-protection consumer-financial-protection-bureau funding-structure independent-agency separation-of-powers |
Whether the Consumer Financial Protection Agency's funding structure—which imposes no meaningful constraints on the authority of the President or CFPB… |
| 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… |
| 22-1180 |
Shire U.S., Inc., et al. v. Mark Blackburn |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
drug-labeling fda-preapproval FDA-regulations federal-preemption pliva-v-mensing preemption prescription-drugs state-law-claim state-law-claims unilateral-change unilateral-label-changes |
Whether a state-law claim is preempted if it places a duty on a drug manufacturer to unilaterally change FDA-approved language that appears in the Hig… |
| 22-1178 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yonas Fikre |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process government-declaration government-power judicial-review mootness no-fly-list standing |
Individuals are sometimes removed from the No Fly List during ongoing litigation about their placement on that list. The Fourth and Sixth Circuits hav… |
| 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… |
| 22-1127 |
Christine Sawicky v. Tao Sykes, Manuel Real Beneficiary, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment bribery due-process equal-protection honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity pro-se pro-se-litigation |
1. How can the DOJ bring multiple indictments
for judges in several circuits, inclusive of counts for
honest services fraud and bribery, but then re… |
| 22-1110 |
Justin Paul Dreiling v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitution court-of-federal-claims equitable-jurisdiction equitable-relief executive-department executive-regulation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction monetary-claims statutory-interpretation united-states |
1. Shall the Court of Federal Claims have jurisdiction to render judgment upon any claim against the United States founded upon any regulation of an e… |
| 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… |
| 22-1010 |
Robert A. Heghmann, et ux. v. Djamel Hafiani, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-stay bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction circuit-split compensatory-damages district-court district-court-jurisdiction punitive-damages status-quo |
1. Does the Bankruptcy Court or the U.S. District Court, or both, have jurisdiction to entertain a complaint filed by a debtor seeking compensatory an… |
| 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… |
| 22-987 |
Polaris Industries Inc., et al. v. Jeremy Albright |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
|
abstention-doctrine cafa civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act equitable-jurisdiction federal-courts forum-shopping subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether CAFA's mandatory grant of subject matter jurisdiction and enumeration of limited equitable bases authorizing abstention require district court… |
| 22-980 |
Neil Paul Noble v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-right harmless-error indictment-notice notice sixth-amendment state-courts |
A. Indictment
A(l). Notice Is a Fundamental
Federal Constitutional Right
Is the Sixth Amendment right to be informed of the na
ture and cause of the … |
| 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… |
| 22-954 |
Justin Marcus Zinman v. California |
California |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech homeland-defense political-ideology second-amendment state-secrets takings |
Whether allowing a Progressive political ideology to
influence the law violates the Establishment clause of
the First Amendment?
Whether the State … |
| 22-937 |
VNG Corporation v. Lang Van, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process federal-rule internet-contacts minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction rule-4(k)(2) specific-jurisdiction |
1. Whether traditional due process principles apply to the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over defendants based on their universally acces… |
| 22-932 |
North Carolina Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment fourth-circuit free-speech government-speech license-plate public-forum specialty-license-plate state-law |
1. Did the district court and Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals err in applying the "Government
Speech" doctrine to limit the speech of private citizens… |
| 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… |
| 22-928 |
Roger Swartz v. Board of Trustees of University of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
|
academic-freedom civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances scienter state-action state-actor university-funding |
1. When effectively unrestricted research funding —requiring nothing more than a yearly progress update —by the state enables a party such as a Univer… |
| 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? |
| 22-914 |
Stanley Waleski v. Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction hypothetical-jurisdiction judicial-domain standing state-law-claims steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-env't subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a federal court may assume "hypothetical" subject matter jurisdiction to reach a decision on issues of state law against the party challenging… |
| 22-879 |
Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech rico standing |
Whether the Petitioner's brother Alexander Basile being murdered 6-3-22, the horrific beating and skewering of his body by unknown Secret Service, MI5… |
| 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… |
| 22-859 |
Securities and Exchange Commission v. George R. Jarkesy, Jr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (36) |
administrative-enforcement administrative-law article-ii civil-penalties civil-rights due-process enforcement nondelegation-doctrine sec-proceedings securities seventh-amendment |
1. Whether statutory provisions that empower the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to initiate
and adjudicate administrative enforcement procee… |
| 22-846 |
Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Reginald Kirtz |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2) |
civil-liability civil-procedure fair-credit-reporting-act federal-jurisdiction federal-law sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation waiver |
Whether the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign i… |
| 22-825 |
James K. Collins v. D.R. Horton-Texas Limited |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process federal-courts federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction res-judicata rule-60 supremacy-clause takings |
The Fourteenth Amendment protects citizens against takings of property without due process. Due process includes, at a minimum, personal jurisdiction,… |
| 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.… |
| 22-707 |
Barry J. Cadden v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-sentencing objective-standard objective-test reckless-risk sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines subjective-test u.s.s.g.-3a1.1(b) vulnerable-victim vulnerable-victim-enhancement |
1. Did the District Court clearly err in applying a four-point "vulnerable victim" enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(b) to defendant's sentence, abse… |
| 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 … |
| 22-637 |
In Re Larry Elliot Klayman |
|
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-rights court-intervention due-process injunctive-relief judicial-misconduct judicial-review mandamus new-trial standing |
Petitioner Larry Klayman filed a lawsuit styled Klayman v. Rao et al., 21-cv-2473 (D.D.C.) (the "Rao Case") in the U.S. District Court for the Distric… |
| 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… |
| 22-598 |
Arthur Bedrosian v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-penalty civil-procedure due-process foreign-account foreign-account-reporting irs objective-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-standard tax willful-violation willfulness |
Whether willfulness under 31 U.S.C. § 5321(a)(5)(C) should be determined according to a subjective, rather than objective, standard that focuses on an… |
| 22-593 |
United States, ex rel. Deborah Sheldon v. Allergan Sales, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
GVR |
|
civil-liability false-claims-act government-fraud knowingly knowledge-standard statutory-interpretation subjective-beliefs subjective-understanding |
Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 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… |
| 22-532 |
Joachim Martillo v. Twitter, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1996-interactive-computer-service common-carrier common-law-common-carrier constitutional-right-to-non-discriminatory-common- digital-property first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-refuse-message-common-car hosting-of-digital-personal-literary-property-as-s interactive-computer-service logical-fallacy-in-statute-interpretation public-forum social-media |
1. Whether digital personal literary property, which
a Defendant carries in the form of a post, com
ment, or tweet, is "other property " according to… |
| 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… |
| 22-529 |
Alex Cantero, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Bank of America, N.A. |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (13)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
banking-regulation consumer-protection escrow-accounts interest-rates mortgage-lending national-bank-act preemption state-law state-law-preemption |
Does the National Bank Act preempt the application of state escrow-interest laws to national banks? |
| 22-501 |
Tom Alonzo, et al. v. Scott Schwab, Kansas Secretary of State, et al. |
Kansas |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gingles-prong-one minority-voting-rights racial-discrimination redistricting single-member-district standing |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit intentional racial discrimination in redistricting where the minority voters discriminated against are not suff… |
| 22-488 |
Darrell Hemphill v. New York |
New York |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling harmless-error judicial-review out-of-court-statement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the improper admission of the out-of-court statement by the alternative suspect in Hemphill v. New York, 142 S. Ct. 681 (2022), was "so unimpo… |
| 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… |
| 22-478 |
David M. Greco v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process erpo-act fourth-amendment standing state-court-proceedings younger-abstention |
1. Whether the fact that the challenged portions of
New Jersey's ERPO Act are "... flagrantly and
patently violative ..." of the Fourth Amendment to
t… |
| 22-467 |
HANWJH v. NBA Properties, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process fair-play-and-substantial-justice interactive-website international-shoe-standard minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction single-sale specific-jurisdiction |
Whether the "minimum contacts" requirement is met to establish specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant where the non-resident def… |
| 22-453 |
Hyuk Kee Yoo, aka Keith Yoo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
extradition-proceedings extradition-treaty individual-liberty judicial-discretion judiciary-role limitations-provisions statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent treaty-interpretation |
Article 6 of the United States -South Korea
Extradition Trea ty ("Treaty") provides that
"[e]xtradition may be denied under this Treaty when
the pr… |
| 22-440 |
Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-interpretation claim-preclusion continuing-acts discrete-acts judgment-limitation limitation-periods related-acts sanctions transaction |
This case presents the following question: whether a judgment on discrete acts that occur before a judgment preclude claims for related discrete acts … |
| 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… |
| 22-411 |
Keo Ratha, et al. v. Phatthana Seafood Co., Ltd., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
calder-effects-test civil-rights forced-labor forum-injury forum-injury-requirement human-trafficking intentional-tort ninth-circuit-ruling personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment |
For purposes of establishing specific personal jurisdiction, this Court has consistently held that defendants can be present in a forum so long as the… |
| 22-410 |
Chama Troutstalkers, LLC, et al. v. Adobe Whitewater Club of New Mexico, et al. |
New Mexico |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equal-footing-doctrine ideal-opportunity property-title public-easement recreational-access recreational-activities state-supreme-court-conflict takings territorial-lands water-rights |
Under the equal-footing doctrine, the United States held title to the beds and banks of non-navigable waters in former U.S. territories, both before a… |
| 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… |
| 22-375 |
Word of God Fellowship, Inc., dba Daystar Television Network v. Vimeo, Inc., et al. |
New York |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
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civil-rights content-moderation contract-preemption first-amendment free-speech internet-immunity public-discourse section-230 viewpoint-discrimination |
1. Does Section 230 immunity extend to the removal of viewpoint-based speech on matters of public concern when the content of the speech is neither fa… |
| 22-374 |
Troy Olhausen v. Arriva Medical, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
GVR |
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circuit-split civil-procedure false-claims-act knowingly objective-reasonableness objective-standard scienter statutory-interpretation subjective-standard |
Whether a False Claims Act defendant alleged to
have "knowingly" violated a provision of federal law
can escape liability by articulating, after the f… |
| 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… |
| 22-272 |
Livingston County Road Commission v. Gould Electronics, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
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cercla cercla-liability due-care environmental-law groundwater-contamination innocent-landowner property-liability reasonable-steps statutory-defense statutory-interpretation third-party-defense |
The questions for this Court are:
1. How is the term "due care" defined for purposes of the 42 U.S.C. §9607(b)(3) "third-party defense" in relation t… |
| 22-266 |
Gary S. Christensen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
26-usc-6201(a)(4) criminal-tax criminal-tax-law due-process irs-assessment restitution return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service return-mail-precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-restitution |
Does this Court's holding in Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service, 139 S. Ct. 1853 (2019) overturn every case holding the Internal Revenu… |
| 22-246 |
Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
blind-trust financial-interest harmless-error judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal liljeberg-v-health-services-acquisition-corp stock-divestment |
28 U.S.C. §455(f) aims to preserve judicial resources and avoid the harsh consequences of recusal when a minor financial interest is discovered after … |
| 22-229 |
In Re Brian D. Swanson |
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2022-09-12 |
Denied |
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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… |
| 22-228 |
In Re Urvashi Bhagat |
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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… |
| 22-210 |
Neil Dupree v. Kevin Younger |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-orders legal-issue post-trial-motion preservation-of-claims summary-judgment |
Whether to preserve the issue for appellate review a party must reassert in a post-trial motion a purely legal issue rejected at summary judgment. |
| 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… |
| 22-202 |
Leonardo Nuncio v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
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constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute obscenity obscenity-test overbreadth texas-penal-code vagueness |
1. Is Texas's obscene harassment statute (Tex. Penal Code 42.07(a)(1) and (b)(3)) unconstitutionally vague and overbroad?
2. Does the Miller v. Calif… |
| 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 … |
| 22-164 |
Mark Elliott Stuart v. Douglas Gerlach, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech police-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial vindictive-prosecution |
(1) Whether the State can seek to punish and prosecute an individual for refusing to obey an unconstitutional order from a public official and a polic… |
| 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… |
| 22-150 |
Ayyakkannu Manivannan v. Department of Energy |
Federal Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower |
1. Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning in an appeal that involves a complex and unsettled area of the law and … |
| 22-145 |
Aidong Chen v. KPMG LLP, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
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civil-rights corporate-influence due-process institutional-discrimination judicial-accountability judicial-independence judicial-misconduct rico rico-statute supreme-court-review |
How to deal with the compromised judges in the lower courts? How to deal with the systematic and institutional discrimination from the 3rd circuit app… |
| 22-144 |
Mahesh Khatri v. Ohio State University, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
academic-freedom biosafety-regulations bioterrorism-act civil-rights disability-discrimination employee-speech first-amendment free-speech garcetti-exception whistleblower |
As of August 1, 2022, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which is caused by a corona virus called SARS-CoV-2, a select infectious agent, more than 6… |
| 22-133 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Kronos Incorporated |
Federal Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-dismissal civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-procedure court-docketing due-process fee-waiver improperly-decided-case judicial-conflict-of-interest precedent-review standing trustees-of-dartmouth-college-v-woodward |
1. Whether dismissing an appeal when a fee waiver Motion is pending is constitutional.
2. Whether dismissing the appeal after annihilating the record… |
| 22-125 |
Scott Fenstermaker v. Stephen Fenstermaker, et al. |
Connecticut |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
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due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment intestate-distributees probate probate-law property-rights small-estate |
Whether Section 45a-273 of the Connecticut General Statutes, C.G.S. §45a-273 ("Section 273"), which permits the no-notice administration of a decedent… |
| 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… |
| 22-120 |
Suntree Pharmacy, et al. v. Drug Enforcement Administration |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-deference administrative-law controlled-substances dea dea-registration deference legitimate-medical-purpose medical-purpose prescription prescription-filling regulatory-interpretation |
Whether a pharmacy violates its corresponding responsibility under 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) and knowingly fills a prescription for a controlled substanc… |
| 22-101 |
Martin Cowen, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
ballot-access congressional-district equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment signature-requirements third-party third-party-candidates |
1. Does a State violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when its ballot-access restrictions on third-party candidates for United States Representa… |
| 22-99 |
Andrew T. Barrett v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
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circuit-split due-process fannie-mae fifth-amendment freddie-mac government-expropriation government-taking net-worth-sweep property-rights statutory-interpretation takings |
In 2012, the Government expropriated the net worth of private companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, by arrogating for itself the Companies' earnings … |
| 22-96 |
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
abrogation circuit-split federal-jurisdiction financial-oversight-and-management-board puerto-rico puerto-rico-oversight sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation |
It is a bedrock principle of federalism that a statute does not abrogate sovereign immunity unless Congress's intent to abrogate is "unmistakably clea… |
| 22-65 |
Michael Van Cleve v. Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process resource-diversion standing standing-doctrine statistical-information statistical-policy three-judge-panel |
In August 2020, I brought a challenge to the government's application of the 1997 Office of Management and Budget race categories to the 2020 U.S. Cen… |
| 22-59 |
Paul Nunu v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment ab-initio constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privileges-or-immunities rooker-feldman state-court-judgments void-ab-initio |
1. Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars inferior Federal Courts from voiding State Court judgments that are void ab initio under State and Federal… |
| 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… |
| 22-47 |
Kerry Benninghoff, Individually and as Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives v. 2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights district-drawing equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights-act |
Pennsylvania's Legislative Reapportionment Commission admittedly made extensive use of race in constructing up to 14 state legislative districts. The … |
| 22-38 |
CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
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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… |
| 22-37 |
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… |
| 22-35 |
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… |
| 21-1578 |
Quannah L. Harris v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
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bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure damages fraud fraud-claims fraudulent-intent materiality reliance rule-9b |
1. Did the Court misapprehended the law and facts in affirming the District Court's decision to dismiss the fraud claims based on the failure to state… |
| 21-1576 |
Timothy J. Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5) |
acquittal circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process reprosecution retrial trial-remedy venue |
Whether the proper remedy for the government's failure to prove venue is an acquittal barring reprosecution of the offense, as the Fifth and Eighth Ci… |
| 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… |
| 21-1542 |
Mill Bay Members Association, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equitable-estoppel executive-order federal-government general-allotment-act indian-lands land-allotment trust trust-period |
In the early twentieth century, the United States allotted a parcel of land called Moses Allotment No. 8 ("MA-8") to American Indian Wapato John under… |
| 21-1538 |
Cleveland County, North Carolina, aka Cleveland County Emergency Medical Services v. Sara B. Conner, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Requested |
agency-interpretation fair-labor-standards-act minimum-wage overtime-pay skidmore-deference skidmore-v-swift statutory-interpretation straight-time-wages |
1. Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act
allows an employee, who has been paid at least the
required minimum wage and overtime pay at a rate
that is at… |
| 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… |
| 21-1489 |
Andrew Ioannidis v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-remedy due-process election-law electoral-count-act first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mootness standing state-law-preemption |
Whether there is any remedy for violation(s) of the First and Fourteenth Amendment(s) to the United States Constitution.
Whether Pennsylvania Law sup… |
| 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… |
| 21-1451 |
Elile Adams v. Raymond G. Dodge, Jr., Chief Judge, Tribal Court of the Nooksack, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights court-remedies due-process exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-plaintiffs habeas habeas-petition pleading-standard standing |
1. Whether federal plaintiffs seeking to challenge their
non-federal prosecution on the basis of bad faith face
a heightened pleading standard.
2. … |
| 21-1397 |
In Re Grand Jury |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (16) |
attorney-client-privilege circuit-split civil-procedure communication-protection confidentiality federal-rules-of-evidence legal-advice non-legal-advice professional-communication significant-purpose |
Whether a communication involving both legal and non-legal advice is protected by attorney-client privilege where obtaining or providing legal advice … |
| 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… |
| 21-1369 |
Carter Page v. Oath Inc. |
Delaware |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
burden-of-proof defamation first-amendment passive-voice public-figure qualified-language truth-standard |
1. Does couching factual claims in qualified language and in the passive voice suffice to render them "true or substantially true" under the First Ame… |
| 21-1331 |
Marcus A. Murphy v. Amanda Cameron Dalton, aka Mandy Moore, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
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abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal district-court-discretion due-process energy-company pro-se-plaintiff sanctions tort-law |
Appeal of Order granting Defendant - Appellees ' Motions to Dismiss & for Sanctions, and Judgment dismissing all claims on May 6, 2021 (5-6-21), by th… |
| 21-1329 |
Estate of Geraldine F. Jennings, et al. v. Gulfshore Private Home Care, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process final-judgment notice notice-requirement sua-sponte sua-sponte-vacatur vacatur |
In this case, the district court entered an order dismissing the case upon summary judgment and directed the clerk to enter judgment. The clerk did so… |
| 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… |
| 21-1326 |
United States, et al., ex rel. Tracy Schutte, et al. v. SuperValu Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-liability deliberate-ignorance false-claims-act fraud knowingly materiality reckless-disregard scienter statutory-interpretation |
Whether and when a defendant's contemporaneous subjective understanding or beliefs about the lawfulness of its conduct are relevant to whether it "kno… |
| 21-1319 |
Mark Nordlicht and David Levy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
credibility criminal-procedure discretion district-court-discretion evidence-weighing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-verdict new-trial new-trial-motion rule-33 standard-of-review witness-credibility |
Whether district courts have discretion to weigh the evidence, including the credibility of witnesses, when deciding to grant a new trial under Rule 3… |
| 21-1299 |
Nicholas D. Scoyni v. Daniel R. Salvador, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
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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… |
| 21-1267 |
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… |
| 21-1264 |
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… |
| 21-1243 |
City of Oakland, California v. Oakland Raiders, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
antitrust-standing associated-general-contractors clayton-act judicial-limits lexmark-international proximate-cause prudential-balancing zone-of-interests |
In Lexmark International, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., 572 U.S. 118, 126 (2014), this Court considered a multifactor balancing test of pru… |
| 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… |
| 21-1172 |
American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
content-based content-based-law employment-classification financial-burdens first-amendment function-of-speech independent-contractor purpose-of-speech regulatory-burdens speech-regulation tax-burden |
Is a law content-based when it imposes financial and regulatory burdens based on the function or purpose of speech?
Does a law that has the effect of… |
| 21-1139 |
Daikin Industries, Ltd., et al. v. The Chemours Company FC, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-deference appellate-review factual-determination factual-review judicial-review remand separation-of-powers |
May a federal appellate court, consistent with the
Administrative Procedure Act and the principles of
separation of powers embedded within that Act,
r… |
| 21-1131 |
Trudy Mighty, as Personal Representative of the Estate of David M. Alexis, Deceased v. Miguel Carballosa, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curative-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling expert-testimony |
The question before this Court is whether, in a civil case involving the killing of a young Black man, whose lawful gun was found twenty feet from his… |
| 21-1108 |
Enron Nigeria Power Holding, Limited v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration burden-of-proof civil-procedure commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law legal-immunity yacht-sale |
1. Whether a foreign state that makes a legal claim to a yacht, participates extensively in the sale of the yacht, and stands to benefit financially f… |
| 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… |
| 21-1100 |
3M Company, et al. v. George Amador |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow evidence-admissibility expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 general-electric-v-joiner judicial-gatekeeping pending-mdl reliability-threshold standard-of-review |
1. Whether the Eighth Circuit's "so fundamentally-unsupported" standard of initial admissibility for expert testimony conflicts with this Court's prec… |
| 21-1087 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
congressional-districts equal-protection gerrymandering minority-representation preliminary-injunction racial-gerrymandering redistricting section-2 standing voting-rights-act |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 21-1085 |
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… |
| 21-1081 |
L. Lin Wood v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process election-procedure election-procedures equal-protection federal-elections legislative-authority standing vote-dilution voter-rights |
1. Whether the Petitioner, as a registered voter, has standing to challenge the unconstitutional actions of nonlegislative officials, who unilaterally… |
| 21-1057 |
Oracle Corporation v. Hewlett-Packard Company |
California |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appeal-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights damages-award due-process first-amendment free-speech litigation-activity petition-clause standing |
The First Amendment to the Constitution protects "the right of citizens to petition the government," U.S. amend. I, which this Court has held "protect… |
| 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… |
| 21-1048 |
Cesar Caballero, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equal-protection first-amendment native-american-land-rights native-american-lands political-question-doctrine quiet-title right-to-access-courts sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether the Trial Court and the Court of Appeals committed prejudicial error in barring/blocking a Native American tribe from pursuing in rem / qui… |
| 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? |
| 21-978 |
Carmela Rivero v. Fidelity Investments, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
adequate-remedy-at-law anti-injunction-act declaratory-judgment-act legal-forum property-rights south-carolina-v-regan subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-exception |
Is the DJA's tax exception "jurisdictional"—and, if so, does it bar a case that is not barred by the AIA? That is, in a case between two private parti… |
| 21-966 |
New York, et al. v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
|
10th-amendment 16th-amendment article-1-section-8 constitutional-limits federal-taxation federalism-principles legislative-power sovereign-authority state-sovereignty state-taxes tax-deduction tax-policy |
Whether Congress's imposition of a $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction violates Article I, Section 8 and the Tenth and Sixteenth Amendments of the Unite… |
| 21-953 |
Richard Leake, et al. v. James T. Drinkard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Assistant City Administrator of the City of Alpharetta, GA, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-speech historical-context parade-participation public-forum |
1. Whether the District Court and Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred when applying the "Gov-ernment Speech" doctrine to limit the speech of priva… |
| 21-946 |
Michael Coscia v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-U.S.C-2255 adversely-affected conflict-of-interest Cuyler-v-Sullivan-446-U.S-335-1980 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance Machibroda-v-United-States-368-U.S-487-1962 section-2255 supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel |
Whether a petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to resolve his claim under Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), … |
| 21-918 |
Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
compelled-subsidies constitutional constitutional-review first-amendment free-speech government-speech johanns-precedent johanns-v-livestock-marketing-association private-speech |
1. Whether otherwise unconstitutional compelled subsidies of private speech are "government speech," free from First Amendment review, because Congres… |
| 21-906 |
Klickitat County, Washington, et al. v. Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
boundary-dispute congressional-act congressional-authority indian-reservation land-disposition ninth-circuit-error statutory-interpretation treaty-interpretation |
1. Whether, or in what circumstances, a court may override an Act of Congress adopting a boundary for an Indian reservation, and set its own boundary.… |
| 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… |
| 21-885 |
PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Meredith Callahan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings |
Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed aut… |
| 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… |
| 21-866 |
Realgy, LLC v. Roberta Lindenbaum, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-speech due-process first-amendment free-speech judicial-recusal recusal retroactive-liability severability standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Did this Court sever the government exception retroactively, and if so, is it permissible to reimpose the unequal treatment that this Court held "v… |
| 21-842 |
Mark Donelson v. Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response Requested |
civil-litigation civil-procedure class-action federal-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-discretion motion-to-strike pleading-standards pleadings separation-of-powers standards |
1. May allegations made in support of the claim that a case should proceed as a class action be struck from a pleading pursuant to Federal Rule of Civ… |
| 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… |
| 21-812 |
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… |
| 21-811 |
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), … |
| 21-769 |
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
allotment congressional-intent federal-reservation indian-land-rights indian-law sixth-circuit-ruling statutory-interpretation superintendence treaty-interpretation treaty-of-detroit treaty-rights |
Whether the 1855 Treaty of Detroit established a federal reservation for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians? |
| 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. |
| 21-744 |
William Maner v. Dignity Health, fka Catholic Healthcare West |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights employment employment-law favoritism gender-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii workplace-favoritism |
1. ) Where an employer allows workplace activities of ongoing, egregious, or multiple instances of favoritism to occur, such as job hiring, 'job reten… |
| 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 … |
| 21-725 |
PeopleConnect, Inc. v. Barbara Knapke |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split discretionary-stay discretionary-test federal-arbitration-act interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction motion-to-compel-arbitration stay-of-proceedings |
Does a non-frivolous appeal of a denial of a motion to compel arbitration divest district courts of jurisdiction, causing proceedings to be stayed aut… |
| 21-723 |
Mark Alan Staples v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication free-speech social-security-law tax-law |
Under the United States Constitution, especially the 14th Amendment, "due process of law" and "equal protection of the laws", the 1st Amendment, free … |
| 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… |
| 21-684 |
Beverly Zylstra, et vir v. DRV, LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-warranty circuit-split consumer-protection cure-opportunity federal-law judicial-uniformity jury-trial magnuson-moss-warranty-act repair-attempts warranty-claims |
The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act creates a private right of action for any "consumer who is damaged by the failure of a supplier, warrantor, or service … |
| 21-677 |
Donald Burns v. Town of Palm Beach, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
aesthetic-regulation architectural-design first-amendment free-speech individual-expression municipal-review residential-architecture takings zoning zoning-requirements |
This case is about the extent to which the First Amendment applies to residential architecture. Donald Burns wanted to replace his Palm Beach home wit… |
| 21-666 |
Parker Waichman, LLP, et al. v. Arnold Levin, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
|
Alyeska-Pipeline-Serv.-Co.-v.-Wilderness-Soc'y attorney-fees Boeing-Co.-v.-Van-Gemert Common-benefit-doctrine common-fund-doctrine diversity-jurisdiction Equitable-common-fund-doctrine erie-doctrine Erie-R.-Co.-v.-Tompkins federal-equity-power Hensley-v.-Eckerhart multi-district-litigation |
The questions concern three subjects : (1) the authority of a court sitting in diversity jurisdiction to allocate contractual attorney fees from indiv… |
| 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… |
| 21-638 |
David R. Watkins, et al. v. Brian F. Spector, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure class-action data-breach due-process ex-parte judicial-procedure legal-ethics settlement settlement-agreement state-law-claims |
After a data breach at Equifax disclosed nearly 150 million Americans' sensitive personal information, 300 class actions against Equifax were consolid… |
| 21-620 |
Michael D. J. Eisenberg v. West Virginia Office of Disciplinary Counsel, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency free-speech legal-representation standing state-regulation supremacy-clause younger-abstention |
The question presented is whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies when a state has indicated it will disregard the Supremacy Clause of the Con… |
| 21-586 |
Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion discovery due-process judicial-procedure litigation-strategy lucky-brand-v-marcel rehiring sineneng-smith-v-us summary-judgment |
1. Is the Seventh Circuit decision, requiring that claims between the parties that occur after the filing of a lawsuit must be filed in a pending laws… |
| 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… |
| 21-530 |
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… |
| 21-523 |
Damon Simon, et ux. v. Roche Diagnostics Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-discretion appellate-procedure certification civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion judicial-procedure legal-review standard-of-review state-law state-law-certification |
1. Whether the court of appeals applied an improper standard of review in exercising its discretion when ruling on the Simons' request to certify the … |
| 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… |
| 21-494 |
Ralph Lewis v. Power Research, Inc., et al. |
Nevada |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
calder-effects-test conflict-of-laws corporate-officer due-process forum-activities nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction walden-v-fiore |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court, in conflict
with this Court's decision in Walden v. Fiore , 571 U.S.
277 (2014), and with decisions of the Texas Sup… |
| 21-463 |
Whole Woman's Health, et al. v. Austin Reeve Jackson, Judge, District Court of Texas, 114th District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (9) |
abortion abortion-law civil-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-review sovereign-immunity standing state-legislation |
The question presented is whether a State can insulate from federal-court review a law that prohibits the exercise of a constitutional right by delega… |
| 21-458 |
L. Lee Whitnum v. Connecticut Office of the Chief State's Attorney, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process favorable-termination federal-jurisdiction legal-pleading procedural-error standing |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 21-448 |
France.com, Inc. v. The French Republic, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-interpretation circuit-court claim-analysis commercial-activity commercial-activity-exception distinct-claims foreign-sovereign-immunities-act gravamen legal-misapplication lower-federal-courts obb-personenverkeher-v-sachs |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and other lower federal courts have misapplied this Court's decision in OBB Personen… |
| 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… |
| 21-432 |
Adolfo R. Arellano v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7) |
38-usc-5110 disability-benefits disability-compensation equitable-tolling federal-circuit irwin-v-department-of-veterans-affairs judicial-review statutory-deadline veterans veterans-benefits |
(1) Does Irwin's rebuttable presumption of equitable tolling apply to the one-year statutory deadline in 38 U.S.C. § 5110(b)(1) for seeking retroactiv… |
| 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… |
| 21-337 |
George Berka v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
climate-change climate-emergency due-process energy-policy environmental-impact environmental-regulation grid-reliability infrastructure-renewal nuclear-power public-safety regulatory-oversight |
Given our existing climate emergency, should the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant be returned to service? |
| 21-338 |
Gary S. Christensen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
16th-amendment criminal-tax due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction irs-determination precedent-interpretation restitution sixteenth-amendment tax-liability |
Where no determination of federal tax liability has been made by the IRS and the court of appeals has ruled patently contrary to this court's decision… |
| 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 … |
| 21-247 |
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… |
| 21-249 |
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.… |
| 21-242 |
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… |
| 21-224 |
Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure common-law-agency employee-classification erisa-employee-definition final-judgment standard-of-review |
1. Does a court of appeals have jurisdiction under 28
U.S.C. § 1291 to decide an appeal from a final judgment
that asks the court to reconsider its pr… |
| 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… |
| 21-193 |
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… |
| 21-195 |
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… |
| 21-174 |
David Louis Whitehead v. United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amended-complaint civil-procedure constitutional-rights fraud fraud-on-court judicial-conflict mandamus pecuniary-interest recusal rule-15 rule-15a standing |
Whether Writ Of Mandamus and Amended Writ of Mandamus should have been granted in the lower courts.
Whether Petitioner should have been allowed to am… |
| 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,… |
| 21-158 |
Bobcar Media, LLC v. Aardvark Event Logistics, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-circuit rule-36 seventh-amendment |
1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36 (wherein a minority of circuit courts issue judgmen… |
| 21-154 |
Nagui Mankaruse v. Raytheon Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
|
bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
I. Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution?
II. Whether the Honorable United States Suprem… |
| 21-153 |
Nagui Mankaruse v. Intel Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violations bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech |
I. Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution?
II. Whether the Honorable United States Suprem… |
| 21-146 |
Christine Clifford, as Administrator of the Estate of John Clifford, et al. v. Richard Federman, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-standard pleadings rule-12 rule-8 shotgun-pleading twombly-and-iqbal |
This Court created the governing standard for substantive Fed. R. Civ. P. 12 ("Rule 12") and 8 ("Rule 8") review of federal civil pleadings in Bell At… |
| 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… |
| 21-124 |
Emmanuel Torres v. Bay Area Credit Services, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights consumer-protection debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection federal-jurisdiction federal-statute new-york-business-law private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation |
Does a consumer have a private right of action under New York General Business Law Section 349 for a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Violation. |
| 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 … |
| 21-109 |
California State Lands Commission v. Eugene Davis, Liquidating Trustee of the Venoco Liquidating Trust, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
|
11th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction inverse-condemnation liquidating-trust post-confirmation-claim sovereign-immunity state-agency state-lands state-treasury |
1. Whether the States' consent to suit in the bankruptcy courts, found to exist in Katz, reaches a suit brought against a State, after the effective d… |
| 21-75 |
Ojin Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process liberty-deprivation methodology-challenge restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines |
1. In cases where the methodology to calculate the guidelines range for sentencing mirrors the methodology to calculate the restitution amount, if a c… |
| 21-72 |
Khalid M. Turaani v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-effect constitutional-rights government-disclosure privacy-act reputation second-amendment sixth-circuit-review standing standing-doctrine traceability |
Whether the standing analysis for Privacy Act improper disclosure claims requires determining if the plaintiff sufficiently alleged an "adverse effect… |
| 21-52 |
Emmanuel Edokobi v. Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-disability standing subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment |
1. When reviewing a district court's ruling to dismiss a civil case dismissed on Motion for Summary Judgment should the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 21-41 |
James Allen Jackson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-due-process racist-testimony right-to-silence trial-counsel wiccan-testimony |
I. Was petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel when defense counsel failed to object to irrelevant, inflammatory testimony that petition… |
| 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 … |
| 21-4 |
C. Al Buis v. DLI Assets Bravo, LLC |
Virginia |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
borrower-agreement consent consent-clause due-process forum-selection forum-selection-clause guaranty-agreement loan-guaranty personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction |
In a suit on a loan guaranty, can specific personal jurisdiction be involuntarily created over an out-of-state guarantor based solely on a co-defendan… |
| 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… |
| 20-1763 |
Fenyang Stewart v. Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law burden-shifting but-for-analysis disability-discrimination disability-related-interference merit-systems-protection-board rehabilitation-act retaliation retaliation-claims statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
Should disability-related interference claims brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 12203(b) be analyzed as retaliation claims susceptible to a burden-shift… |
| 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… |
| 20-1753 |
Joseph Dennis Gilberti, Jr. v. Adrurra Group, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process environmental-protection government-conspiracy professional-engineering public-health racketeering standing takings water-quality water-resource |
I. Why did the lower Court with Governor Desantis. EPA, and Florida Department of Environmental protection, along with multiple City/County and State … |
| 20-1738 |
Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. v. United States House of Representatives |
District of Columbia |
2021-06-15 |
GVR |
|
article-iii-standing border-wall border-wall-expenditures congress congressional-standing executive-branch executive-branch-challenge mootness separation-of-powers statutory-authority |
Whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950), this Court should vacate the court of appeals' judgment that a single Hou… |
| 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… |
| 20-1644 |
Devon Archer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure jury-discretion jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice new-trial new-trial-motion second-circuit |
Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) afford district courts discretion to reweigh the evidence when evaluating a new trial motion, as eleven … |
| 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 … |
| 20-1625 |
David Lillie v. ManTech International Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-labor-code civil-procedure false-claims-act retaliation retaliation-statute rule-50 rule-50-motion statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-statute |
The case involves issues regarding two whistleblower statutes, one federal and a California whistleblower statute. The California whistleblower retali… |
| 20-1635 |
Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny |
Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s… |
| 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… |
| 20-1616 |
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 … |
| 20-1617 |
Matthew Earley v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Can the "burden of proof" regarding inherency shift if the Court (US Court of Appeals / Federal Circuit) and Board (US Patent Trial and Appeal Board) … |
| 20-1619 |
Expensify, Inc. v. Eddie White |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights declaratory-judgment dignitary-interests due-process free-speech mootness ninth-circuit nominal-damages standing |
(No. 17,322) The question presented is whether Uzuegbunam merits summarily granting the petition, vacating the judgment, and remanding to determine wh… |
| 20-1615 |
Colin Masseau, et ux. v. Guy Henning, et al. |
Vermont |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9-usc-10(a)(3)&(4) arbitration-review contract-of-adhesion due-process federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce intrastate-commerce manifest-disregard manifest-disregard-of-law motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading |
Colin and Emily Masseau were a young couple looking to purchasing their first home and hired a local Vermont licensed home inspector to inspect that h… |
| 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… |
| 20-1604 |
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… |
| 20-1599 |
John Doe 7, et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure confidentiality disclosure modification-standard protective-order rule-26c stipulated-order stipulation |
Rule 26(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows courts to grant protective orders, for good cause shown, regarding information produced by a… |
| 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… |
| 20-1588 |
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 … |
| 20-1552 |
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 … |
| 20-1547 |
Broidy Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. State of Qatar |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-violations criminal-law criminal-violations discretionary-act-exclusion foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction |
Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's discretionary act exclusion bars the exercise of jurisdiction over claims by a U.S. citizen against a f… |
| 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… |
| 20-1535 |
Kevin Diaz v. Ashley Johnson |
First Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action administrative-procedure-act agency-action apa arbitrary-and-capricious chevron-deference ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications judicial-review statutory-interpretation technology tucker-act |
1. Whether the Lower Court erred in not admitting nexus evidence for administrative action taken under the jurisdiction of §§ 702 706 of the APA imple… |
| 20-1526 |
Warnock Engineering, L.L.C., et al. v. Canton Municipal Utilities |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process federal-pleading-standards first-amendment johnson-v-shelby pleading-standards quantum-meruit retaliation-claim standing summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the dismissal of
Petitioners' quantum meruit claim due to alleged inadequate pleading should be
re… |
| 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… |
| 20-1519 |
Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing |
1. Whether Police Officer Ismael Rivera was correctly denied his entitlement to qualified immunity?
2. Whether the District Court correctly applied c… |
| 20-1510 |
Louis Tafuto v. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights electoral-college equal-protection free-speech gerrymandering injury-in-fact standing vote-dilution voting-rights |
1. Is a diluted vote an injury-in-fact when Plaintiff is in a "packed" Electoral College district (New York) in a U.S. federal election?
2. Are the r… |
| 20-1485 |
JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Emmet County, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction immunity-defense indian-law indian-reservation malicious-prosecution treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
1.)Is Ms. Crossett on Indian land, a reservation established in the 1836 and 1855 treaties, not disestablished with intent by congress, and does Littl… |
| 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(… |
| 20-1449 |
Harold Persaud v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan rule-60b section-2255 trevino-rule trevino-v-thaler |
Whether under Martinez v. Ryan and Trevino v. Thaler a Petitioner May Use Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to Reopen a Proceeding Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 on the B… |
| 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… |
| 20-1438 |
Tina Cates v. Bruce D. Stroud, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Requested |
civil-rights constitutional-law courts-of-appeals due-process fourth-amendment legal-doctrine precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
1. Whether the unanimous conclusion of multiple other courts of appeals suffices to clearly establish the law for purposes of qualified immunity.
2. … |
| 20-1430 |
AMA Multimedia, LLC v. Marcin Wanat |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
calder-effects-test circuit-split civil-procedure due-process express-aiming federal-civil-procedure foreign-defendant geotargeted-advertising personal-jurisdiction tort |
Whether a foreign defendant, whose largest business market originates from the United States through website visitors with geotargeted advertising, wh… |
| 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… |
| 20-1411 |
Starline Tours of Hollywood, Inc. v. EHM Productions, Inc., dba TMZ, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-dismissal finality finality-doctrine judicial-participation ninth-circuit-interpretation pragmatic-approach technical-construction |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's undefined requirement for meaningful judicial participation impermissibly abandons this Court's longstanding mandate that … |
| 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… |
| 20-1394 |
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… |
| 20-1391 |
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… |
| 20-1387 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
|
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-241-245-249 42-usc-1983 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct property-rights |
1. Whether denial of my fundamental right to
protection provided by the law, denial of my rights
to private property, personal security, health,
re… |
| 20-1386 |
Dale Sawyer Eisele v. The Estate of Joseph Brodie Smith |
New Hampshire |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
|
adoption adoption-law civil-rights dna-paternity due-process exhumation exhumation-request family-rights legal-interpretation pretermitted-heir probate standing |
The petitioner's request to exhume the body of Joseph Brodie Smith to prove paternity thru DNA was denied by the lower courts.
1. Did interpreting th… |
| 20-1385 |
Tarek Obaid v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1355 civil-forfeiture due-process in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction minimum-contacts pennoyer-v-neff property-situs shaffer-v-heitner statutory-interpretation |
Does the Due Process Clause, as construed by Shaffer v. Heitner, require application of the "minimum contacts" test to true in rem proceedings?; and
… |
| 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. |
| 20-1342 |
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… |
| 20-1339 |
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… |
| 20-1336 |
Denis Quinette v. Dilmus Reed, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fourth-amendment inmate-abuse qualified-immunity supervisory-liability |
Petitioner Denis Quinette was violently attacked by a jailer at the Cobb County Jail who had a terrifying history of violence and inmate abuse.1 Despi… |
| 20-1335 |
A. P. v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute |
1. Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States C… |
| 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… |
| 20-1293 |
AbbVie Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure due-process litigation-exception noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-immunity objective-baselessness sham-litigation standing subjective-element |
Whether the subjective element of the "sham litigation" exception to Noerr-Pennington immunity may be met by an inference from a finding that a challe… |
| 20-1294 |
Simon Campbell, et al. v. Pennsylvania School Boards Association, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
42-u-s-c-1983 civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petitioning petitioning-immunity retaliation retaliation-claim sham-litigation state-action state-actors |
1. Are state actors, acting under color of state law, entitled to claim petitioning immunity from liability for a First Amendment retaliation claim br… |
| 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. §… |
| 20-1284 |
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.
… |
| 20-1285 |
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. … |
| 20-1275 |
Vesuvius USA Corporation, et al. v. Royston Phillips |
Ohio |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
|
blocking-statutes comity comity-principles data-privacy foreign-discovery gdpr hague-convention international-discovery privacy u.s.-discovery |
When compliance with discovery obligations in an American court is prohibited by the General Data Privacy Regulation, whether principles of comity req… |
| 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… |
| 20-1268 |
Michael Suarez v. Alf J. Aanonsen |
Florida |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-court-conflict appellate-court-decision business-nexus federal-question foreign-corrupt-practices-act national-importance supremacy-clause |
1. IS THE OPINION REND ERED BY THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA IN ALF J. AANOSEN, APPELLANT v MICHAEL A. SUAREZ ETC. APPELLEE , (CASE NO… |
| 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… |
| 20-1258 |
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 … |
| 20-1233 |
Johnny Gatewood v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
cause-exception circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-cause petitioner-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim.
2… |
| 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… |
| 20-1227 |
David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-litigation |
• Whether The 9™CIRCUIT COURT HAD FULL JURISDICTION OF
THE APPEAL, HAVING NO NOTICE OF APPEAL FILED By
PETITIONER IN THE Central DISTRICT COURT UNTIL … |
| 20-1219 |
Carline Maria Curry v. Douglas Mackenzie |
Ohio |
2021-03-03 |
Rehearing |
|
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge damages-calculation default-judgment due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-denial partial-liability resubmission summons-process |
THIS IS A QUESTION OF CONSTITUTION CHALLENGE FOR DEFAULT JUDGEMENT
The Ohio Supreme Court declined to accept Jurisdiction of the Appeal & a motion fo… |
| 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… |
| 20-1202 |
William J. Miller v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
email-privacy fourth-amendment government-intrusion government-search private-actor property-based property-rights reasonable-expectation search search-and-seizure |
Whether Jacobsen's reasonable-expectations conclusion "does not permit" courts to consider the traditional property approach, Pet. App. 35a, or whethe… |
| 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… |
| 20-1161 |
Edward J. Kosinski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
appellate-review confidentiality-agreement constitutional-vagueness criminal-fraud fiduciary-duty harmless-error insider-trading trust-and-confidence vagueness |
1. Whether a simple agreement to keep information confidential by itself can establish the fiduciary or similar relationship of "trust and confidence"… |
| 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 … |
| 20-1141 |
Doe Company v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process perlman-doctrine personal-jurisdiction standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement third-party-disclosure |
1. Whether an appealing party's substantial interest in a disclosure order directing a disinterested third party to produce documents provides appella… |
| 20-1136 |
Peter Capote v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
|
6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment death-penalty judicial-fact-finding judicial-weighing jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Alabama death penalty sentencing scheme, which leaves it to the judge to find whether the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitiga… |
| 20-1130 |
Ericsson Inc., et al. v. TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure discretion federal-civil-procedure judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law legal-issues preservation-of-issues summary-judgment |
1. Whether, notwithstanding the ordinary rule that a pretrial denial of a motion for summary judgment is not reviewable on appeal, there is an excepti… |
| 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… |
| 20-1123 |
Lenwood Hamilton v. Lester Speight, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech likeness-rights privacy privacy-rights property-rights right-of-publicity transformative-use video-game-law |
1) whether the First Amendment right to free speech protects using a person's actual likeness without permission when weighed against that person's pr… |
| 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… |
| 20-1112 |
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 … |
| 20-1100 |
Paul Rodriguez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
electoral-college equal-protection first-amendment political-parties presidential-election summary-affirmance vote-dilution voting-rights |
Petitioners are two California Republicans and two non-profit organizations who have alleged their votes for President and Vice President are diluted … |
| 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?
… |
| 20-986 |
Michael Gregory Hubbard v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-statutes due-process fair-notice first-impression-law legal-interpretation official-actions official-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-theory statutory-interpretation |
Did the Supreme Court of Alabama deprive Petitioner of due process of law, when it affirmed his conviction based on (a) first-impression interpretatio… |
| 20-984 |
Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey v. Defense Distributed, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
cease-and-desist due-process forum-state jurisdictional-challenge minimum-contacts nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment specific-jurisdiction |
Whether a nonresident state official subjects itself to personal jurisdiction in another forum State when it sends a single cease-and-desist letter to… |
| 20-952 |
Construction Cost Data, L.L.C., et al. v. The Gordian Group, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
|
business-disparagement defamation false-statements first-amendment jury-findings noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine reckless-disregard state-law-liability |
1. Whether the Noerr-Pennington doctrine has been improperly expanded beyond its First Amendment moorings to insulate knowingly, recklessly, or intent… |
| 20-955 |
Delva Newhouse, Administratrix of the Estate of William Perry Newhouse, III v. Ethicon, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process federal-law fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-discretion medical-device product-liability rule-60 summary-judgment |
DID THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND U.S. FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS JUSTICES ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION, CREATE MANIFEST INJUSTICE, SUBSTANTIALLY ERR, PR… |
| 20-924 |
David G. Bowser v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1001 criminal-concealment dismissal-with-prejudice false-statement federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal legal-duty material-fact motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal |
Whether the legal duty to disclose, required for a criminal concealment of a material fact, 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(1), can be created by coupling a volun… |
| 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… |
| 20-890 |
Stanford Vina Ranch Irrigation Company v. California, et al. |
California |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
compensation constitutional-rights due-process emergency-authority property-rights public-trust-doctrine quasi-legislative takings water-rights |
Whether government may avoid constitutional rights to due process and compensation by crafting quasi-legislative regulations that eliminate the proper… |
| 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… |
| 20-909 |
Iqbal S. Randhawa v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
california-law federal-truth-in-lending-act foreclosure jesinoski-v-countrywide property-possession quiet-title statute-of-limitations tila-rescission truth-in-lending-act |
In 1968 Congress passed the Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act, Title 1, known as the Federal Truth-in-Lending Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1601 et seq., w… |
| 20-886 |
Thelma G. McCoy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code brunner-test circuit-split student-loan-debt student-loans totality-of-circumstances totality-test undue-hardship |
The Bankruptcy Code permits courts to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy if a debtor can show that repaying it would cause her "undue hardship.… |
| 20-883 |
Donald J. Trump v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absentee-voting election-integrity election-law election-procedures elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection legislative-intent voter-fraud |
Since the 1980s, the Wisconsin Legislature has authorized absentee voting but explicitly commanded it must be "carefully regulated to prevent the pote… |
| 20-887 |
In Re L. Lin Wood, Jr. |
|
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process election-law elections equal-protection legislative-authority signature-verification standing vote-dilution voting-rights |
1. Whether the Petitioner/voter has standing to challenge state action based on the predicate act of vote dilution where the underlying wrong infringe… |
| 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… |
| 20-871 |
In Re Bryant Moore |
|
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1651 appellate-review default-judgment extraordinary-writ fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether this Court should use its discretion through 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a) and governing law of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 2… |
| 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. |
| 20-858 |
In Re Tyler Bowyer, et al. |
|
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
|
42-U.S.C.-1983 constitutional-rights due-process election-fraud elections electoral-college equal-protection fraud presidential-electors standing |
A. Whether presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election for fraud and illegality that cause the defeat of t… |
| 20-859 |
In Re William Feehan |
|
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C.-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-fraud elections electoral-college electors equal-protection presidential-electors standing |
A. Whether presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election for fraud and illegality that cause the defeat of t… |
| 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… |
| 20-829 |
WasteCare Corporation v. Harmony Enterprises, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrability arbitration-agreement arbitration-rules carve-out circuit-split contract-interpretation delegation delegation-doctrine exempt-claims |
Whether an arbitration agreement that expressly carves out specific claims to be exempt from the provision clearly and unmistakably delegates arbitrab… |
| 20-816 |
In Re Coreco Ja'Qan Pearson, et al. |
|
2020-12-15 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
due-process election-fraud electoral-college equal-protection fraud illegality presidential-election section-1983 standing standing-doctrine |
A. Do presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election for fraud and illegality that cause the defeat of their … |
| 20-799 |
L. Lin Wood, Jr. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
|
due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection legislative-authority signature-verification standing state-legislature vote-dilution voting-rights |
1. Whether the Petitioner/voter has standing to challenge state action based on the predicate act of vote dilution where the underlying wrong infringe… |
| 20-798 |
In Re Leonard Patti |
|
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-review medical-malpractice medical-procedure standing statute-of-limitations |
1. Why was I denied my right to a trial by jury, or even a hearing on the case? The only thing that had any bearing on this case was the Affidavit of … |
| 20-797 |
Leonard Patti v. George C. Peck, Jr. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process informed-consent jury-trial medical-malpractice standing |
1. Why was I denied my right to a trial by jury, or even a hearing on the case? The only thing that had any bearing on this case was the Affidavit of … |
| 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… |
| 20-773 |
Nazir Khan, et al. v. Merit Medical Systems Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure federal-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se rule-11 sanctions service-of-process |
Whether—in line with holdings from the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits—a motion for Rule 11 sanctions may be gr… |
| 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 … |
| 20-763 |
Ericka Richardson, et al. v. Coverall North America, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
|
adhesive-agreement arbitration clear-and-unmistakable delegation-of-arbitrability state-vs-federal-law unsophisticated-party |
1. Whether incorporation by reference of a separate set of arbitration rules constitutes clear and unmistakable evidence of intent to delegate the thr… |
| 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… |
| 20-740 |
Jim Bognet, et al. v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
ballot-deadline election-integrity elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection judicial-overreach mail-in-ballots purcell-v-gonzalez standing |
The Pennsylvania General Assembly established
an unambiguous election- day deadline for receipt of
absentee and mail -in ballots. A majority of the … |
| 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… |
| 20-730 |
Lindsay R. Cooper, et al. v. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., aka TEPCO, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
choice-of-law diplomatic-mission foreign-corporation foreign-corporations humanitarian-assistance international-comity jurisdiction military-personnel u.s.-court-jurisdiction |
Whether United States Military personnel, while deployed on U.S. Naval vessels undertaking a U.S. diplomatic humanitarian assistance mission, can righ… |
| 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 … |
| 20-645 |
Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
|
16th-amendment 4th-amendment controlled-substances-act fifth-amendment fourth-amendment preemption self-incrimination state-rights supremacy-clause tax-law |
The Petitioners allegedly operate a Colorado state legal cannabis dispensary and sold cannabis in accordance with state law. The IRS claims that altho… |
| 20-652 |
George Georgiou v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability counsel-waiver due-process napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct rule-8c witness-testimony |
Whether the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability should be reversed and remanded, because it is manifestly incorrect t… |
| 20-654 |
Anthony John Ripa v. Stony Brook University |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights denied-benefit educational-amendments educational-amendments-1972 gender-advocacy sex-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation student-benefits title-ix |
1. Whether discrimination for a student because of sex constitutes a "denied . . . benefit " to the other sex within the meaning of Title IX of the Ed… |
| 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… |
| 20-626 |
In Re Robert A. Heghmann |
|
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
|
apportionment civil-rights congressional-districts district-court due-process one-person-one-vote standing three-judge-panel writ-of-mandamus |
Should a Writ of Mandamus be issued to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in the case of Heghmann v. Trump et al., … |
| 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… |
| 20-603 |
Le Roy Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety |
Texas |
2020-11-05 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (17)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process military-employment sovereign-immunity standing state-immunity state-sovereign-immunity uniformed-services-employment-and-reemployment-rig userra war-powers |
In the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), Congress gave the over 19 million military servicemembers—including… |
| 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. |
| 20-593 |
Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
|
citizen-redress civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-damages due-process ex-parte-order government-liability judicial-immunity standing |
Spokane County initiated and prosecuted, without counsel, and directly through judicial members of its local superior court 124 joint actions against … |
| 20-582 |
Shadreck Kifayatuthelezi v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights compensation eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment incarceration qualified-immunity release-date seventh-amendment state-law |
I. Whether the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or state law provide a source of compensation when an inmate is incarcerated past his l… |
| 20-575 |
Royal Truck & Trailer Sales and Service, Inc. v. Mike Kraft, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
authorized-access circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-law federal-statute improper-purpose standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access |
Whether a person who is authorized to access
information on a computer for certain purposes violates
Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus… |
| 20-576 |
Sharon Darlene Lopez v. California |
California |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blood-draw civil-rights consent constitutional-rights driving-privilege due-process fourth-amendment implied-consent search warrantless-search |
1. Can the State of California condition driving upon its public highways upon a motorist's agreement to surrender Fourth Amendment rights for purpose… |
| 20-563 |
Harris County, Texas v. PRSI Trading, LLC |
Texas |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency auer-deference customs-and-border-patrol customs-border-patrol foreign-trade-zones issue-preclusion property-tax regulatory-interpretation tax-exemption |
Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in failing to follow the findings of CBP in its Headquarters Ruling Letters in holding that the foreign trade su… |
| 20-550 |
Heon Jong Yoo, aka Hank Yoo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924 atf-form-4473 federal-firearms-licensee firearms-licensee firearms-transfer jurisdictional-fact national-of-the-united-states national-status statutory-offense |
A. Are the instructions on an ATF Form 4473 evidence of a jurisdictional fact such that the jurisdictional element of the statutory offense found at 1… |
| 20-554 |
Craig Eugene Smith v. James McKinney, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response Requested |
atypical-and-significant-hardship atypical-hardship courts-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review liberty-interest prison-conditions wilkinson-v-austin |
Whether a court determining if a prisoner has suffered an "atypical and significant" hardship must consider factors such as the duration of and justif… |
| 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… |
| 20-503 |
Tofig Kurbanov v. UMG Recordings, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
|
due-process foreign-citizen fourth-circuit-court internet-transactions personal-jurisdiction sovereignty website-operation |
The Court should grant certiorari to address whether the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution is violated when a foreign citizen is su… |
| 20-472 |
HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC, et al. v. Renewable Fuels Association, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15) |
continuous hardship exemptions since 2011 to qual administrative-law disproportionate-economic-hardship energy-policy epa-regulation hardship-exemption renewable-fuel-standard small-refineries small-refinery-exemption statutory-interpretation |
In order to qualify for a hardship exemption under § 7545(o)(9)(B)(i) of the Renewable Fuel Standards, does a small refinery need to receive uninterru… |
| 20-479 |
David C. Shinn v. Ryan Robert Baker |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Requested |
adversarial-system appellate-procedure case-transformation civil-procedure gvr judicial-restraint ninth-circuit party-presentation sineneng-smith summary-reversal |
1. Whether this Court should reverse the decision below under Sineneng-Smith.
2. Whether this Court should grant, vacate and remand in light of Sinen… |
| 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… |
| 20-457 |
MarketGraphics Research Group, Inc. v. David Peter Berge |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split debtor-liability discharge intent-standard objective-certainty statutory-interpretation subjective-intent willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury |
The Bankruptcy Code exempts from discharge "any debts * * * for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of ano… |
| 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. |
| 20-427 |
Polk County, Wisconsin v. J. K. J., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violations failure-to-train monell-liability municipal-liability section-1983 single-incident-theory |
Whether the "single-incident" theory of Monell liability may be used to hold a municipality liable under §1983 on the theory that its failure to do mo… |
| 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 … |
| 20-394 |
David Alan Schum v. Fortress Value Recovery Fund I, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-precedent officers-of-the-court rule-60 stare-decisis time-bar |
1. Whether a claim brought under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(d)(3) as a result of fraud on the court by attorneys who are sworn officers … |
| 20-379 |
Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London v. Brighton Collectibles, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
|
abstention civil-damages comity due-process federalism insurance-policy invasion-of-privacy ninth-circuit privacy-rights song-beverly-act song-beverly-credit-card-act |
This Court's supervisory power is called upon as to:
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit violated federalism, abstention, and comity by creating new law whe… |
| 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… |
| 20-383 |
PAR, Inc., et al. v. Nichole L. Richards |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure enforcement-mechanism fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law plain-meaning right-to-possession state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts may look to state law to define
"present right to possession" in 15 U.S.C. §1692f(6) of
the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to e… |
| 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 (… |
| 20-339 |
Jason Winer v. Coralys Negron, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure consumer-protection creditor-definition creditor-status de-facto-dealer district-court-jurisdiction state-law-claims Supplemental-jurisdiction unfair-trade-practices |
1. Did the District Court err in exercising supplemental jurisdiction over the Plaintiffs state law claims when the Defendant-Jason Winer was not a cr… |
| 20-348 |
Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause |
SCOTUS Rule 10(a) - Whether or not a Circuit Split has arisen between the Fourth Circuit and other Circuits over the interpretation of whether crimes … |
| 20-330 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-14 |
GVR |
Amici (4) |
article-iii constitutional-interpretation domestic-emoluments-clause emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments-clause judicial-review presidential-immunity presidential-powers standing |
Whether plaintiffs who claim to compete with businesses in which the President of the United States has a financial interest can seek redress in an Ar… |
| 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… |
| 20-327 |
BBB Industries, LLC v. Cardone Industries, Inc. |
Texas |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-limits due-process forum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction state-court supplemental-jurisdiction texas |
Under the Due Process Clause, courts may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants only when the plaintiff's claim arises f… |
| 20-312 |
Texas Brine Company, LLC, et al. v. Rodd Naquin, Clerk, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit |
Louisiana |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process geographical-bias judicial-discretion judicial-procedure panel-assignment random-selection state-law |
The question presented is whether due process requires judges to be assigned to panels randomly from the pool of all the judges available to hear a pa… |
| 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… |
| 20-316 |
Maria Pappas, Cook County Treasurer, et al. v. A.F. Moore & Associates, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights comity-doctrine due-process equal-protection real-estate real-estate-assessment tax-assessment tax-injunction-act tax-refund |
1. Whether the Equal Protection Clause mandates that a real estate taxpayer seeking a refund based on an over assessment of real property be able to c… |
| 20-304 |
World Programming Limited v. SAS Institute, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
|
all-writs-act civil-procedure enforcement enforcement-injunction federal-money-judgment federal-money-judgments foreign-judgment foreign-money-judgments judicial-remedy novel-remedies rule-69 |
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 69 addresses the enforcement of federal money judgments. It provides that "[t]he procedure on execution * * * must acc… |
| 20-306 |
Robert Olan and Theodore Huber v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
GVR |
Amici (2) |
conversion criminal-procedure dirks-v-sec fraud fraud-statute government-regulation insider-trading personal-benefit property-rights securities-law |
1. Whether information about a proposed government regulation is "property" or a "thing of value" belonging to a federal, state, or local regulator su… |
| 20-287 |
Ernest Johnson v. Anne L. Precythe, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
|
alternative-method bucklew-v-precythe constitutional-claim eighth-amendment legitimate-penological-justification method-of-execution penological-justification summary-judgment |
In Bucklew v. Precythe, 139 S. Ct. 1112 (2019), this Court held, at the summary judgment stage and on the record in that case, that the State had a le… |
| 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… |
| 20-214 |
Akbar Ghaneh Fard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bidding-practices contract-fraud cost-estimates cost-estimation fraud government-procurement loss-calculation procurement-programs restitution set-aside-program |
1. In competitive government procurement programs, does a government contractor "defraud" the Government by practicing conservatism in the bidding pro… |
| 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… |
| 20-210 |
Jing Shu Zheng v. Christina Ellis, et vir |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-penalties civil-rights due-process false-claims-act promissory-fraud section-8-housing treble-damages |
Whether the number of FCA civil penalties is based upon the number of overpayments received by a Section 8 landlord or whether they are based upon the… |
| 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… |
| 20-148 |
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… |
| 20-158 |
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 … |
| 20-131 |
Essity Hygiene and Health AB v. Cascades Canada ULC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
|
appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation discretion federal-circuit forfeiture judicial-discretion pending-cases precedential-decision scalia |
Following a precedential decision sustaining an Appointments Clause challenge, does a court have discretion to apply the decision in pending cases whe… |
| 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… |
| 20-128 |
Big Port Service DMCC v. China Shipping Container Lines Co. Ltd. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
|
all-writs-act anti-arbitration-injunction arbitration arbitration-injunction circuit-split equitable-relief federal-arbitration-act injunctive-relief remedial-power |
Petitioner Big Port Service DMCC ("BPS") was permanently enjoined from pursuing an arbitration against Respondent China Shipping Container Lines Co. L… |
| 20-121 |
Marshall Spiegal v. Michael C. Kim |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-estoppel debt-collection debt-collector-allegations debtor-conduct direct-connection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa judicial-notice statutory-interpretation transaction-nexus |
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") covers debts "arising out of" certain transactions. Does "arising out of" require a "direct" connecti… |
| 20-97 |
Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association, et al. v. Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
antiquities-act ecosystem-protection federal-land marine-conservation national-marine-sanctuaries-act national-monuments presidential-power regulatory-authority separation-of-powers |
Whether, in conflict with the holdings of the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits and the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, the Antiquities Act applies to ocea… |
| 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. |
| 20-66 |
G&M Realty L.P., et al. v. Maria Castillo, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment graffiti-art recognized-stature statutory-damages vara visual-artists-rights-act |
Designed to create for visual artists a "moral right" of "integrity," the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 ("VARA") authorizes courts to impose statu… |
| 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 … |
| 20-69 |
William O. Fuller, as Successor Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Otis Fuller v. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction court-of-appeals federal-procedure hypothetical-jurisdiction res-judicata standing steel-company subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether a Court of Appeals panel can, consistent with Steel Company v. Citizens for A Better Environment, 523 U.S. 83 (1998) and the Constitutional… |
| 20-70 |
Jagan Mahadevan v. Prem Bikkina |
California |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights defamation due-process federal-preemption first-amendment free-speech public-concern public-interest research-misconduct scientific-integrity standing |
1. Whether federal statutory and regulatory scheme, for research misconduct, displaced state law from subject matter jurisdiction on defamation claims… |
| 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… |
| 20-5 |
Richard Blumenthal, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
article-iii judicial-relief legislative-standing raines-v-byrd separation-of-powers standing vote-nullification |
Do legislators have standing to seek judicial relief when their votes have been "completely nullified," Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 823 (1997)? |
| 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… |
| 19-1467 |
Robert S. Ortloff, aka Robert Stanley Ortloff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability docket-management due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se pro-se-petition |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it contravened long-established decisional law to deny a pro se habeas petitioner a certificate of appealab… |
| 19-1457 |
Matthew Hudak v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
|
brady-obligations due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-material guilty-plea impeachment-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Whether the prosecution's Brady obligetions allow the prosecution to deliberately suppress relevant impeachment or exculpatory material before a gu… |
| 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… |
| 19-1459 |
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 … |
| 19-1451 |
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. |
| 19-1455 |
Leigh Ann Youngblood-West v. Aflac Incorporated, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech hush-agreement judicial-recusal prior-restraint rumery standing |
1. Whether the injunction enforcing the hush agreements and sealing the evidence of Aflac's and Dan Amos' cover-up of Dr. Amos' serial assaults upon w… |
| 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… |
| 19-1416 |
Mateusz Fijalkowski v. M. Wheeler, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-doctrine law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings western-political-theory |
Whether the Court should revisit its qualified immunity doctrine, which stands in derogation of over three hundred years of Western political theory a… |
| 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 … |
| 19-1376 |
Algignis, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
District of Columbia |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-state agency-jurisdiction catch-22 civil-rights environmental-law innovation innovation-barriers judicial-review private-enterprise regulatory-capture regulatory-risk standing standing-doctrine |
This case is not really about standing; it is about whether a small, relatively unknown group of Americans will be allowed to try to solve their own l… |
| 19-1375 |
Aaron L. Katz v. Incline Village General Improvement District |
Nevada |
2020-06-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights fee-shifting first-amendment litigation-immunity petition-clause public-concern public-grievances punitive-statute sham-litigation standing |
The First Amendment right to petition clause contains a heightened standard precluding liability when a citizen exercises his/her right to bring suit … |
| 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… |
| 19-1339 |
Kansas City Royals Baseball Corp., et al. v. Aaron Senne, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
class-action class-certification commonality predominance rule-23 statistical-surveys tyson-foods tyson-foods-v-bouaphakeo wage-and-hour |
1. Whether Tyson sanctions the use of statistical surveys to establish commonality and predominance for a wage-and-hour class that encompasses differe… |
| 19-1323 |
B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Facebook, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights costs due-process federal-circuit judicial-imprimatur legal-relationship mootness preclusion prevailing-party standing texas-state-teachers-association-v-garland |
Following this Court's decision in CRST, does the standard for determining whether a defendant is a "prevailing party" require the "material alteratio… |
| 19-1310 |
Craig R. Jalbert, in His Capacity as Trustee of the F2 Liquidating Trust v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
First Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-authority civil-rights disgorgement due-process judicial-review legislative-power penalty-enforcement securities separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Whether a federal government agency commits a structural separation-of-powers violation of exercising a legislative function when, in addition to expl… |
| 19-1306 |
United Parcel Service, Inc. v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
aggregation-threshold carrier-liability cigarette-trafficking circuit-split common-carrier-liability contraband-cigarette-trafficking-act exemption-compliance national-importance possession statutory-construction statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation tobacco-regulation |
1. The Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act prohibits the knowing transportation of "a quantity" of more than 10,000 untaxed cigarettes in the "posses… |
| 19-1297 |
James K. Collins, et ux. v. D.R. Horton-Texas, Ltd. |
Texas |
2020-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process federal-judgment fourteenth-amendment personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-rights takings tenth-amendment void-judgment |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment allows a state to enforce a void federal judgment obtained without personal jurisdiction over and notice to the defen… |
| 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… |
| 19-1294 |
Geoffrey Young v. Amy McGrath |
Kentucky |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access ballot-challenge civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation democratic-party due-process election-integrity election-law judicial-procedure kentucky-constitution political-parties primary-election standing |
1) Whether Kentucky's Judicial Department
unlawfully enabled the names of Amy McGrath and
Andy Beshear, who were shown by a preponderance
of the evide… |
| 19-1296 |
Helix TCS, Inc. v. Robert Kenney |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
|
controlled-substances controlled-substances-act fair-labor-standards-act federal-drug-crime federal-drug-crimes marijuana-trafficking minimum-wages private-right-of-action tenth-circuit-ruling uniform-application-of-federal-law |
Whether the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq., confers a private right of action to recover minimum wages for conduct that violates t… |
| 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… |
| 19-1246 |
Rita McDaniel, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Johnny F. McDaniel, Deceased v. Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-26 |
Denied |
|
failure-to-warn fda-labeling fda-regulations federal-regulations implied-preemption medication-guide parallel-federal-regulations preemption state-law tort-claim |
Whether a state-law, failure-to-warn claim that parallels a defendant's failure to follow FDA labeling regulations is impliedly preempted? |
| 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… |
| 19-1228 |
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… |
| 19-1232 |
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… |
| 19-1204 |
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… |
| 19-1205 |
Anthony J. Lucero v. Paul Gordon, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment certificate-of-review civil-procedure due-process federal-review legal-malpractice rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sham-affidavit state-actor state-actors state-court-judgments |
1. Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permit this United
States Supreme Court to review state trial court documents
and judgments in this case within … |
| 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… |
| 19-1199 |
Don Higginson v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
at-large-voting california-voting-rights-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-elections racial-polarization voting-rights voting-rights-act |
In Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (1986), this Court held that a municipality's at-large voting system does not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rig… |
| 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… |
| 19-1129 |
Charles T. Fote v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-opinion judicial-reasoning judicial-review legal-reasoning rehearing supervisory-authority written-opinion |
Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning in an appeal that involves a complex and unsettled area of the law and in … |
| 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… |
| 19-1116 |
LinkedIn Corporation v. hiQ Labs, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
bot-technology circuit-conflict computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act computer-trespass data-harvesting legislative-history personal-data public-websites statutory-interpretation technical-barriers unauthorized-access website-scraping |
Whether a company that deploys anonymous computer "bots" to circumvent technical barriers and harvest millions of individuals' personal data from comp… |
| 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… |
| 19-1108 |
DeRay Mckesson v. John Doe |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
GVR |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights demonstration-law due-process first-amendment free-speech naacp-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action personal-liability protest protest-demonstration protest-liability standing tort-liability |
Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action maki… |
| 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… |
| 19-1098 |
National Football League, et al. v. Ninth Inning, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
antitrust-market competition-harm damages-claim illinois-brick indirect-purchaser joint-venture rule-of-reason sherman-act |
1. Whether an agreement among the members of a joint venture on how best to distribute the venture's jointly created core product may be condemned und… |
| 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… |
| 19-1092 |
In Re TCT Mobile International Limited |
|
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure contact-attribution due-process eastern-district-of-texas federal-circuit forum-state mandamus nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce unilateral-activity venue |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying mandamus and failing to correct a district court ruling finding personal jurisdiction over a nonreside… |
| 19-1079 |
M.W. Watermark, LLC, et al. v. Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights consent-decree contract-assignment contract-law due-process federal-court four-corners injunction injunctive-relief sixth-circuit standing |
This Court says that "the scope of a consent decree must be discerned within its four corners, and not by reference to what might satisfy the purposes… |
| 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… |
| 19-1045 |
Raminder Kaur v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defense-counsel privileged-communications prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel work-product work-product-doctrine |
Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits trial of a criminal defendant by prosecutors with extensive knowledge of both her privileged communications with… |
| 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? |
| 19-1010 |
Actavis Holdco U.S., Inc., et al. v. Connecticut, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-discovery claw-back discovery discovery-scope document-production federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mandamus mandamus-review proportionality relevance relevance-standard rule-26 scope-of-discovery |
Whether, contrary to Rule 26(b), this Court's decisions, and the decisions of five circuits, a district court may compel a party that has not engaged … |
| 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… |
| 19-999 |
Lewis Alan Dugan v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction obscenity overbreadth speech-conduct stalking-statute |
1. Whether, in a prosecution for writing obscene letters, a trial court should instruct a jury regarding the legal definition of the term "obscene" as… |
| 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… |
| 19-963 |
Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer and White Sales, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
appellate-conflict arbitrability arbitration-agreement civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law delegation-doctrine federal-arbitration-act federal-courts questions-of-arbitrability state-courts |
Whether a provision in an arbitration agreement that exempts certain claims from arbitration negates an otherwise clear and unmistakable delegation of… |
| 19-942 |
Laurel Zuckerman, as Ancillary Administratrix of the Estate of Alice Leffmann v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Response Waived |
art-restitution civil-rights holocaust-expropriated-art-recovery-act holocaust-expropriation laches laches-defense nazi-persecution property-recovery statute-of-limitations unclean-hands |
1. Whether the nonstatutory defense of laches may bar an action to recover artwork lost because of Nazi persecution, where that action has been brough… |
| 19-923 |
Timothy Barnes v. Chase Home Finance, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process federal-circuit-court federal-statutes ownership-interest principal-dwelling property-rights rescission-rights state-law state-law-interpretation truth-in-lending-act |
Does a consumer have the right to exercise federal TILA rescission protection where applicable state law has defined his ownership interest in a way t… |
| 19-910 |
K. G. S., Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe, a Minor Child v. Facebook, Inc. |
Alabama |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
|
calder-effects-test calder-v-jones due-process effects-based-test fourteenth-amendment online-activity personal-jurisdiction reputational-harm virtual-contacts walden-v-fiore |
Whether, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, virtual contacts can establish specific personal … |
| 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 … |
| 19-870 |
Jeana K. Reinbold, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Estate of 180 Equipment, LLC v. First Midwest Bank |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-court-split circuit-split federal-court-interpretation federal-interpretation notice-of-collateral secured-creditor security-interest state-law state-law-interpretation uniform-commercial-code |
Whether the decision of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, that a secured creditor need not give any public notice of the collateral securing its s… |
| 19-854 |
Universal Telephone Exchange, Inc. v. ZTE Corporation, et al. |
Texas |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-award arbitration-law federal-arbitration-act fraud fraud-standard legal-integrity revised-uniform-arbitration-act statutory-interpretation texas-civil-practices-and-remedies-code undue-means uniform-arbitration-act |
Does an admission by a party of contemporaneous illegal activity at the time of the issues in dispute in arbitration, or contemporaneous with the time… |
| 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 … |
| 19-830 |
Effex Capital, LLC, et al. v. National Futures Association, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commodities-exchange-act federal-agency federal-preemption implied-conflict-preemption implied-preemption national-futures-association obstacle-preemption regulatory-obstacle self-regulatory-organization state-law-tort state-law-tort-claims |
1. Whether the Seventh Circuit wrongly expanded
the doctrine of implied conflict preemption by
holding that an obstacle could form the basis of pree… |
| 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… |
| 19-832 |
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 … |
| 19-820 |
John McMahon, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of San Bernardino County, et al. v. Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
|
aboriginal-title appropriation-doctrine barker-v-harvey enabling-act enabling-acts indian-country land-claim secretarial-order united-states-v-title-insurance-trust-co |
1. Under Barker v. Harvey, 181 U.S. 481 (1901) and United States v. Title Insurance & Trust Co., 265 U.S. 472 (1924), did the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe'… |
| 19-740 |
Kayla Butts, Individually and on Behalf of Her Daughter, A. F., a Minor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-52a evidence-consideration expert-testimony fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice standard-of-care standard-of-review trial-court-deference |
1. Did the Appellate court violate Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 52(a) when it failed to consider all of the evidence before the trial court, inser… |
| 19-734 |
Trina R. Patterson v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
15-usc-1692a-6 circuit-court-split debt-collector fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure ninth-circuit security-interest standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding consistent with the opinions in Dowers v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al and Obduskey v. McCarthy and H… |
| 19-730 |
DeRay McKesson v. John Doe |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Dismissed |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights demonstration-law first-amendment free-speech NAACP-v-claiborne-hardware negligence negligence-action protest protest-leader protest-liability standing state-law unidentified-perpetrator |
Do the First Amendment and this Court's decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982), foreclose a state law negligence action maki… |
| 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… |
| 19-699 |
Albert D. Moustakis v. Wisconsin Department of Justice |
Wisconsin |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law case-law common-law discretion discretionary-power judicial-review mandamus open-records open-records-law public-official public-records strict-scrutiny |
1.) Whether the common law writ of mandamus may be issued when a public official exercises discretion outside the constraints placed upon the discreti… |
| 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… |
| 19-695 |
Dean Browning Webb, et al. v. Deere Credit, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
beck beck-v-prupis civil-liability civil-rico co-conspirator-liability conspiracy-law mediate-causation pinkerton-doctrine procedural-sanctions rico-1962-d salinas salinas-v-united-states |
Pinkerton, Salinas, Beck, and mediate causation:
Does the Pinkerton Doctrine, Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640, 647, 66 S.Ct. 1180, 90 L. Ed. … |
| 19-687 |
League of United Latin American Citizens, et al. v. Edwards Aquifer Authority, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights electoral-districts equal-protection franchise-elections local-government one-person-one-vote rational-basis-review salyer-ball-exception voting-rights |
In its Avery U. Midland County, Hadley U. Junior College District, and Morris U. Board of Estimate line of cases, this Court has held that political u… |
| 19-688 |
Wells Fargo & Co., et al. v. City of Miami, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-procedure civil-rights fair-housing-act legal-causation private-litigation proximate-cause standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation tort-liability |
Whether proximate cause in private litigation about the Fair Housing Act requires more than a "logical bond" between the alleged statutory violation a… |
| 19-646 |
Alaina Adkins, et al. v. Jesse Michael Collens |
Alaska |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
|
bmw-v-gore civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-judgment fourteenth-amendment punitive-damages state-farm-v-campbell statutory-damages treble-damages |
A Superior Court Judge in Alaska, presiding without a jury in a bench trial, imposed a $20 million judgment (principally based on treble damages under… |
| 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. |
| 19-620 |
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… |
| 19-610 |
Mushkin, Inc. v. Anza Technology, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-15c-relation-back clear-error conduct-transaction-occurrence federal-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice relation-back standard-of-review |
Whether the appropriate standard of review for a "relation back" determination under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(c) is: (1) the de novo standard of review appl… |
| 19-602 |
Chesley Eugene Saunders v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship confidential-information criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-bias judicial-recusal professional-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal … |
| 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… |
| 19-601 |
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. … |
| 19-591 |
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… |
| 19-573 |
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense |
Under Brecht v. Abrahamson, a federal court cannot grant habeas relief unless a constitutional error had a "substantial and injurious effect or influe… |
| 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… |
| 19-508 |
AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9) |
administrative-law circuit-split federal-trade-commission federal-trade-commission-act injunctions injunctive-relief monetary-relief permanent-injunction preliminary-injunction restitution statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unfair-or-deceptive-acts |
Whether § 13(b) of the Act, by authorizing "injunction[s]," also authorizes the Commission to demand monetary relief such as restitution—and if so, th… |
| 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… |
| 19-482 |
ASAP Copy and Print, et al. v. Canon Solutions America, Inc. |
California |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure-28-usc-1446 civil-rights-act-of-1866 due-process judicial-immunity law-of-the-case recusal recusal-requirement removal-procedure removal-statute state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause |
1. Whether in conflict with the clear authority of this court California's common law concept of "law of the case" may defeat the command of 28 U.S.C.… |
| 19-462 |
A Top New Casting Incorporated v. Bodum USA, Incorporated |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
|
apple-v-samsung circuit-split cost-advantage design-simplicity functionality manufacturing-cost manufacturing-costs manufacturing-process materials product-design trade-dress |
This is a trade dress case. The Seventh Circuit affirmed the decision of the District Court that Plaintiff-Appellee Bodum USA, Inc. owned a trade dres… |
| 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… |
| 19-448 |
Glen Plourde v. Jane Doe |
Maine |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
|
assassination-attempts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-surveillance harassment international-law standing surveillance torture |
The case under review may superficially appear to be a simple protection from harassment case, although petitioner assures The Honorable United States… |
| 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 … |
| 19-407 |
Alexander Christian Miles v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa contract-law criminal-charges criminal-procedure plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief |
1. Whether the abuse of the writ doctrine or the AEDPA precludes a successive petition for post conviction relief when the government, years after a d… |
| 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 … |
| 19-391 |
Assured Guaranty Corp., et al. v. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bond-debt debt-enforcement municipal-bankruptcy municipal-bond-market special-revenues |
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 922(d) mandates that there is no automatic stay of debt enforcement actions with respect to pledged special revenues. |
| 19-390 |
William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rico collateral-estoppel constitutional-amendments due-process federal-procedure final-judgment-act first-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court interlocutory-appeal jury-trial obstruction-of-justice |
1. Whether district court orders dedicate any section of the opinion(s) to deny petitioner's Civil RICO 18 U.S.C. 1961-1964, in the verified complaint… |
| 19-388 |
Mimi Korman v. Julio Iglesias |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
|
where a district court dismisses the action on th civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment intent judicial-estoppel pleading-stage pleadings property-rights standing takings |
Is a civil plaintiff deprived of property without the due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, where a district … |
| 19-379 |
Alfred Lam, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exceptional-importance federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court judicial-misconduct ninth-circuit perjury public-employee rule-60 standing |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision imposes an erroneous and unjustifiable standard for "Fraud Upon The Court"?
2. Whether granting the writ gene… |
| 19-377 |
Kraig Rudinger Kast v. Erickson Productions, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
|
capacity-to-be-sued civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process erisa frcp-17(b) inter-vivos-trust jurisdiction probate probate-law standing tenth-amendment |
1. Whether the district and appellate courts claiming jurisdiction under ERISA over a private inter vivos trust creates conflict between Article VI of… |
| 19-372 |
William D. Jenkins, Jr., et ux. v. Corey Chance, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts judicial-power legislative-authority legislative-intent standing state-legislation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Does This Court possess verifiable Constitutional and Congressional power to interpret unwritten Congressional Law and alleged Legislative "voids ".
… |
| 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… |
| 19-346 |
Andrzej Madura, et ux. v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
15-usc-1635 due-process foreclosure mortgage-rescission non-purchase-money-mortgage rescission subject-matter-jurisdiction tila-disclosure truth-in-lending-act |
Whether, under the Truth in Lending Act and controlling case authority, the lender or creditor, after receipt of timely notice of rescission of a non-… |
| 19-343 |
New York Republican State Committee v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law first-amendment free-association free-speech investment-advisers political-contributions sec sec-rule-2030 |
On August 25, 2016, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (hereinafter "Respondent" or "Commission" or "SEC") approved Rule 2030, repro… |
| 19-341 |
Augustine Pacheco, et al. v. Honeywell International Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
age-65-promise collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation contract-law explicit-terms federal-common-law healthcare-vesting implied-terms industry-practice retirement-healthcare vesting |
Applying "ordinary principles of contract law," this Court held that collectively-bargained retirement healthcare vesting may be proved by "explicit t… |
| 19-337 |
Regents of the University of Minnesota v. LSI Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
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 … |
| 19-302 |
Michael Bornemann v. Tamae M. Kekona, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Benjamin Paul Kekona, Deceased |
Hawaii |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment double-penalty due-process due-process,punitive-damages,14th-amendment,excess fourteenth-amendment hrs-657-5 judicial-review legal-appeals punitive-damages statutory-interest |
A. Whether the Hawaii Court gravely erred when it upheld a grossly excessive punitive damages award against Bornemann in violation of the Due Process … |
| 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… |
| 19-293 |
TKC Aerospace Inc. v. Charles Taylor Muhs |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
actual-intent bankruptcy bankruptcy-discharge circuit-split intent-requirement malicious-injury objective-certainty objective-standard substantial-certainty willful-and-malicious-injury willful-injury |
Under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(6), a debt may not be discharged in bankruptcy if it arises from a "willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another." I… |
| 19-279 |
Shirley Johnson v. New Destiny Christian Center Church, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
|
advice-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-alteration evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause |
After a two-day Bench Trial in a malicious prosecution action, the District Court altered video evidence, and ignored other "smoking gun" evidence. A… |
| 19-277 |
HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. v. Irving H. Picard, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (6) |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-550 extraterritoriality foreign-transaction foreign-transactions initial-transferee initial-transferees international-comity subsequent-transferee subsequent-transferees trustee-recovery |
11 U.ௗS.ௗC. §ௗ550(a) authorizes a bankruptcy trustee to recover the proceeds of voided prepetition debtor transactions from two distinct classes of tr… |
| 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… |
| 19-255 |
Thomas More Law Center v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (1) |
charitable-organizations circuit-split civil-rights disclosure-requirements donor-anonymity due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech nonprofit strict-scrutiny |
1. Whether exacting scrutiny or strict scrutiny applies to disclosure requirements that burden non-electoral, expressive association rights.
2. Wheth… |
| 19-251 |
Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (14) |
association civil-rights constitutional-rights donor-privacy due-process exacting-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech law-enforcement-interest naacp-v-alabama narrow-tailoring nonprofit nonprofit-association nonprofit-organizations standing |
Whether the exacting scrutiny this Court has long
required of laws that abridge the freedoms of speech
and association outside the election context—as… |
| 19-248 |
Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split common-law-test darden employee-classification employee-status employment-status erisa standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Like many federal statutes, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 incorporates the traditional common-law test for distinguishing betwee… |
| 19-235 |
Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing |
1. Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plainti… |
| 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… |
| 19-207 |
David Grober, et al. v. Mako Products, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure discovery due-process expense-sanctions federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion litigation-compliance reasoned-decision rule-37 sanctions |
Whether the mandatory expense sanctions of
FRCP Rule 37, can be circumvented by a court
ignoring, or reducing them, including to zero, absent
the l… |
| 19-204 |
Paul M. Carrick v. Tamyra Ann Rice, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
|
california-statehood civil-rights fees homestead-act homestead-act-1862 public-domain settlers state-subsidiary takings |
1. The Stated purpose of the Legislature in the
Homestead Act of 1862 is "To secure Homesteads
for actual settlers on the Public Domain. " It is a
… |
| 19-192 |
Matthew Herrick v. Grindr LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-defense communications-decency-act failure-to-warn fraud interactive-computer-services motion-to-dismiss negligence non-publication-torts product-liability publication-torts section-230 |
(1) Does the Communications Decency Act § 230(c)(1), which protects interactive computer services from liability for traditional publication torts whe… |
| 19-177 |
Agency for International Development, et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6) |
civil-rights federal-funding first-amendment foreign-policy free-speech funding-conditions hiv-aids overseas-affiliates prostitution speech-restriction standing statutory-interpretation |
Respondents are United States-based organizations that receive federal funds to fight HIV/AIDS abroad. In Agency for International Development v. Alli… |
| 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 … |
| 19-131 |
Duanna Knighton v. Cedarville Rancheria of Northern Paiute Indians, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
|
civil-jurisdiction civil-tort dollar-general-corporation-v-mississippi-band-of-c due-process montana-exceptions montana-v-united-states nonmember-rights nonmembers plains-commerce-bank-v-long-family-land-cattle-co sovereign-powers standing tort-claims tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
"[T]he inherent sovereign powers of an Indian tribe do not extend to the activities of nonmembers of the tribe." Montana v. United States, 450 U.S. 54… |
| 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… |
| 19-119 |
Staples, Inc., et al. v. Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
apportionment commerce-clause constitutional-taxation due-process franchise-fees income-apportionment income-tax interstate-commerce royalty royalty-fees royalty-income state-courts state-taxation |
When an out-of-State business receives royalty
fees, franchise fees, or similar payments from in-State
businesses, may a State imposing income taxes c… |
| 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,… |
| 19-97 |
Mitchell Jay Stein v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel jury-trial offensive-collateral-estoppel securities-fraud seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
This Court has repeatedly instructed that the use of collateral estoppel is limited to situations where "the issues in the two cases are … identical,"… |
| 19-73 |
Michael W. Gahagan v. Citizenship & Immigration Services |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
attorney-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fee-award fee-award-interpretation fee-award-laws fogerty-v-fantasy foia-litigation freedom-of-information-act legal-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation textual-analysis |
1. Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that all federal fee-award laws must be read identically (i.e., absent express textual differences) contravene this C… |
| 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… |
| 19-48 |
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… |
| 19-46 |
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. |
| 19-45 |
Nexus Services, Inc., et al. v. Donald Lee Moran, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Deputy Sheriff of Augusta County, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
|
christiansburg-garment civil-procedure court-order federal-statute fee-shifting legal-relationship prevailing-party rule-41 rule-41(a)(1) voluntary-dismissal |
Can a party qualify as a "prevailing party" under a federal fee shifting statute when an adverse party voluntarily dismisses its claims under Rule 41(… |
| 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… |
| 19-34 |
Paul Maravelias v. David DePamphilis |
New Hampshire |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection extraordinary-sanction findings-of-fact first-amendment original-jurisdiction pre-deprivation-hearing retaliation rule-of-law standing supreme-court vagueness |
1. Did the NHSC violate the Due Process Clause to deny Petitioner's requested pre-deprivation hearing and by failing to make a single finding of fact … |
| 19-20 |
William Andreoli, et al. v. Youngevity International Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
|
anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine final-judgment final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal slapp standing |
Whether federal courts of appeals lack interlocutory appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine to review the den… |
| 19-17 |
Alexander Collin Baker v. Clara Veseliza Baker |
California |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process federal-supremacy first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint right-to-petition separation-of-powers strict-scrutiny vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Is the DVPA's severable residual clause definition of "abuse" unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad?
2. Is the "abuse" definition in conflict … |
| 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… |
| 18-1567 |
Alexander A. Benzemann v. Houslanger & Associates, PLLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-litigation civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-procedure standing statute-of-limitations |
I. Whether the "discovery rule" applies to toll the one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 169… |
| 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… |
| 18-1520 |
Michael A. Tricarichi, Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
9th-circuit federal-income-tax fraudulent-transfer internal-revenue-code irc-6901 state-law tax-court third-party-conduct transferee-liability |
Whether a tax court in applying fraudulent transfer principles for imposing transferee liability with respect to a taxpayer must utilize the fraudulen… |
| 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… |
| 18-1441 |
Presbyterian Church U.S.A. v. Brian Edwards, Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, et al. |
Kentucky |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
|
church-autonomy church-constitution civil-rights defamation ecclesiastical-abstention first-amendment free-speech ministerial-role religious-doctrine supremacy-clause |
Whether, under the Supremacy Clause, the First Amendment requires state courts, despite their own procedures, to dismiss suits immediately upon a show… |
| 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… |
| 18-1393 |
William T. Walters v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing grand-jury-secrecy presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation structural-error |
1. Whether systematic and pervasive government misconduct that violates Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) is structural error giving rise to a p… |
| 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… |
| 18-1384 |
Joseph D. Bradley v. Alco Oil & Gas Company, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-959(b) diversion-of-funds exclusive-in-rem-jurisdiction federal-equity-receiver federal-freeze-order federal-receivership fund-diversion in-rem-jurisdiction in-rem-jurisdiction-28-usc-754 midlantic midlantic-decision notice-to-parties state-agency state-agency-regulation statutory-interpretation summary-proceedings |
1. Whether a State agency, with notice that certain
defrauded investor funds on account at a bank are
subject to 28 U.S.C. § 754's exclusive in rem ju… |
| 18-1374 |
Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights controlling-law due-process erickson-v-pardus federal-courts federal-question interlocutory-appeal pleading-standard pleading-standards statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Is the Third Circuit acting in opposition to controlling law (Erickson v. Pardus, Johnson v. City of Shelby) and different from other circuits by impl… |
| 18-1343 |
Princeton Digital Image Corporation v. Adobe Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Requested |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure consent-final-judgment consent-judgment cross-appeal federal-circuit final-judgment interlocutory-ruling jurisdictional-dismissal standing third-circuit |
In accordance with Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay, 437 U.S. 463 (1978) and Microsoft Corp. v. Baker, _ U.S. _, 137 S.Ct. 1702 (2017), the Federal Circui… |
| 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… |
| 18-1314 |
Kimberly Meador, et al. v. Apple, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1332 access-to-courts certification-to-state-supreme-court civil-rights collision court-access distracted-driving diversity-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction-28-usc-1332 driver-distraction due-process erie-doctrine negligence product-liability smartphone-manufacturer-liability statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law |
1. Has the court of appeals failed to exercise its mandatory diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332 by refusing to make an "Erie guess" whether… |
| 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), … |
| 18-1285 |
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. |
| 18-1280 |
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… |
| 18-1245 |
Oglala Sioux Tribe, et al. v. Lisa Fleming, in Her Official Capacity, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
abstention child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irreparable-harm parental-rights procedural-rights standing state-action tribal-sovereignty younger-abstention |
1. Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in
holding, in conflict with decisions of this Court and
three other courts of appeals , that the possibility of
f… |
| 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 … |
| 18-1170 |
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? |
| 18-1167 |
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, … |
| 18-1159 |
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 … |
| 18-1150 |
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… |
| 18-1144 |
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… |
| 18-1114 |
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… |
| 18-1086 |
Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc., et al. v. Marcel Fashions Group, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure claim-preclusion defense-preclusion due-process fairness-to-defendants federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure issue-preclusion res-judicata |
Whether, when a plaintiff asserts new claims, federal preclusion principles can bar a defendant from raising defenses that were not actually litigated… |
| 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… |
| 18-1034 |
Jefferson A. McGee v. City of Sacramento, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-rights conspiracy discrimination discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination standing |
Whether the appeal in this action is so insubstantial as not to warrant further review and should not be permitted to proceed? |
| 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. … |
| 18-1010 |
Joseph P. Hagan, et al. v. Karim Khoja |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split corporate-disclosure corporate-issuer disclosure duty-to-update historical-fact material-misstatement materiality reliance rule-10b-5 sec-rule-10b-5 securities-law |
The U.S. Courts of Appeals are currently split on whether the federal securities laws impose a duty on corporate issuers to update a statement that wa… |
| 18-1005 |
Eileen L. Zell v. Katherine M. Klingelhafer, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-misconduct cover-up due-process judicial-bias legal-malpractice perjury political-influence settlement-conference |
Whether the following actions of the district and appellate courts below represented concrete evidence of actual bias that violates due process of law… |
| 18-1000 |
American Freedom Defense Initiative, et al. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-speech public-forum speech-restriction transit-advertising transit-authority viewpoint-discrimination |
1. Is the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's advertising space a public forum for Petitioner's "Support Free Speech" ads such that Respo… |
| 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… |
| 18-970 |
Thomas Mitchell, et al. v. Tulalip Tribes of Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
allotment declaratory-judgment jurisdictional-challenge non-indian-fee-land regulatory-authority sovereign-immunity treaty treaty-rights tribal-authority tribal-taxation |
Does sovereign immunity bar the federal courts' consideration of a declaratory judgment action to determine whether Respondent Tribes can exercise reg… |
| 18-974 |
Mar-Bow Value Partners, LLC v. McKinsey Recovery & Transformation Services US LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
|
access-to-records article-iii article-iii-courts bankruptcy-conflicts bankruptcy-disclosure bankruptcy-fiduciary bankruptcy-integrity bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-standing integrity-of-process judicial-review pecuniary-interest persons-aggrieved standing |
Respondent McKinsey Recovery & Transformation
Services US LLC ("McKinsey") was employed to assist
debtors in a bankruptcy reorganization. Petitioner a… |
| 18-979 |
Joshua Caleb Bohmker, et al. v. Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
environmental-regulation federal-land federal-land-policy federal-land-policy-and-management-act federal-land-use-control federal-mining federal-mining-claims federal-preemption land-management land-use-control mineral-development mining-claims national-forest-management-act preemption state-environmental-regulation supremacy-clause |
In California Coastal Comm'n v. Granite Rock Co., 480 U.S. 572 (1987), this Court considered the question whether states might assert permitting autho… |
| 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… |
| 18-959 |
Mandy Rooks v. Drake Rooks |
Colorado |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
|
classification constitutional-rights due-process embryo-classification embryo-personhood embryo-status family-law family-rights marital-property personhood property-rights religious-freedom religious-rights reproductive-rights |
Whether extracorporeal embryos created during marriage are persons or a property.
Whether classifying extracorporeal embryos as property and permitti… |
| 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… |
| 18-951 |
T&T Rock Distribution, LLC v. Rutilio I. Velasco |
Texas |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion arbitration-agreement civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretionary-review federal-arbitration-act litigation-stay motion-to-compel standard-of-review stay-of-litigation trial-court-discretion |
Whether this Court should grant Petitioner's certiorari for because the Supreme Court of Texas denied Petitioner's Petition For Review and Motion For … |
| 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. |
| 18-904 |
King Law Group, PLLC, et al. v. M2 Technology, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bell-v-hood circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-facts merits merits-overlap procedural-standard standing steel-co-v-citizens-for-a-better-environment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
In light of the Steel Co. rule that jurisdiction must be determined as "an antecedent" matter, what is the proper procedure for handling situations in… |
| 18-894 |
Harold McNeal, et ux. v. Navajo Nation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
|
congressional-policy contract-negotiation federal-indian-law federal-jurisdiction gaming-enterprise indian-gaming-regulatory-act sovereign-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction tort-claim tort-claims tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Tenth Circuit panel violated the current jurisprudence of this Court and the Congressional policy underlying IGRA by precluding the Nation… |
| 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 … |
| 18-884 |
Brenda Jeffrey v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment animal-law animal-seizure civil-forfeiture criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment matthews-test property-rights sentell-vs-new-orleans |
whether, under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, a state can seize and later permanently deprive a defendant of her property, an animal i… |
| 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… |
| 18-828 |
Robert Ghiringhelli, et al. v. The Assurance Group, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-contract civil-rights contract contract-law federal-preemption insurance insurance-industry insurance-law medicare medicare-regulations separate-accrual-rule statute-of-limitations |
The case involves application of the "separate accrual rule" to commissions earned by the Petitioners and collected each month by the Respondent from … |
| 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 … |
| 18-810 |
John Maguire, et al. v. Anika Edrei, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
|
acoustic-device civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement lrad police-tactics protest-control qualified-immunity |
Did the Second Circuit err in finding a potential constitutional violation for excessive force and denying the officers qualified immunity, particular… |
| 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… |
| 18-803 |
Wendy B. Dolin v. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, fka SmithKline Beecham Corporation |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
|
clinical-trials drug-labeling drug-manufacturer fda-regulations impossibility-preemption labeling-changes preemption truthful-risks unilateral-labeling-changes unilateral-warning wyeth-v-levine |
Does federal law prevent a drug manufacturer from enhancing its label to reflect truthful risks revealed in its clinical trials when the relevant FDA … |
| 18-792 |
Ronald Leroy Satterlee v. Alicia Miller-Degase, Assessor of Douglas County, Missouri, et al. |
Missouri |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-rights due-process government-authority jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge presumption-of-innocence property-rights property-tax right-of-contract tax-assessment taxation |
The Question Presented for Review is whether or not this Appellant Has Right To Life, Liberty, Property and Pursuit of Happiness, the Right To Presump… |
| 18-794 |
Ronald R. Shea v. Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-amendments counsel due-process fundamental-rights petition-clause prisoner-rights telephone-access |
Whether a prisoner's right to a telephone call is a necessary inference of the fundamental rights of bail and counsel under the Sixth, Eighth and Four… |
| 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… |
| 18-761 |
D. Dahne v. Thomas W. S. Richey |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech grievance inmate-rights ninth-circuit prison prison-grievance qualified-immunity |
Inmates in state and federal prisons file hundreds of thousands of grievances every year, and grievance programs peacefully resolve countless disputes… |
| 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… |
| 18-729 |
Maxwell & Morgan, P.C., et al. v. Martha A. McNair |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure consumer consumer-protection debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa foreclosure judicial-foreclosure security-interest statutory-interpretation |
Whether the FDCPA applies to foreclosure activity that does not seek payment of money from a consumer. |
| 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… |
| 18-706 |
Esther Kiobel, By and Through Her Attorney-In-Fact, Channa Samkalden v. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confidentiality-order discovery-standards discretion discretion-of-district-court district-court-discretion foreign-court-receptivity foreign-legal-assistance foreign-legal-assistance-statute-28-usc-1782 foreign-non-discoverability intel-case intel-v-advanced-micro-devices non-discoverability second-circuit-court-of-appeals section-1782 |
Under Intel, may a district court in its discretion allow Section 1782 discovery where the foreign court is receptive to U.S. discovery, but the docum… |
| 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… |
| 18-635 |
Brian M. Burmaster v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-general criminal-conspiracy federal-court-judges federal-judges immunity international-criminal-court international-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction u.s.-attorney-general |
The primary federal question which has never been asked nor answered in American judicial history: Are U.S. Federal Court Judges (U.S. District, Appel… |
| 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)? |
| 18-627 |
William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-statutory-causes-of-action constitutional-rights due-process emotional-distress federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming a district court's conclusion that service of process by Certified Mail - a summons with a copy of the complain… |
| 18-609 |
Joseph David Robertson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
GVR |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review clean-water-act criminal-procedure motion-for-acquittal navigable-waters rapanos-v-united-states sackett-v-epa united-states-army-corps-of-engineers-v-hawkes-co void-for-vagueness |
Petitioner Joseph David Robertson is an elderly Navy veteran who ran a fire fighting support truck business deep in the Montana woods. He dug some wat… |
| 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… |
| 18-592 |
Ferguson Florissant School District v. Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
at-large-electoral-system demographic-change electoral-district minority-group minority-voting-rights non-hispanic-white-population numerical-majority section-2 section-2-claim voting-age-population voting-rights-act voting-rights-act-section-2 |
Does Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allow a minority group to bring a claim against a school district's statutorily imposed at-large elect… |
| 18-577 |
David Netzer v. Shell Oil Co., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure conflict-of-interest disclosure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal res-judicata |
Premise of the Question: A Federal Judge is a Board member and Board advisor of a major social organization. The defendant in a case being heard by th… |
| 18-566 |
Heriberto Menendez v. Marshall Garber |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Requested |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-burden due-process interstate-commerce judicial-jurisdiction limitations long-arm-statute non-resident-tolling statute-of-limitations tolling |
Whether a state statute that tolls limitations while the defendant is absent from the state imposes constitutionally impermissible burdens on intersta… |
| 18-570 |
Felisa Tunac, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Randy Tunac, Deceased v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-review civil-procedure healthcare judicial-review judicial-review-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitation medical-malpractice negligence negligence-claims va-healthcare veterans-affairs veterans-judicial-review-act |
1) Whether the court below erroneously held that its jurisdiction was limited by the Veterans' Judicial Review Act to negligence claims against Depart… |
| 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… |
| 18-546 |
Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. v. Association for Accessible Medicines |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
commerce-clause consumer-protection dormant-commerce-clause drug-pricing extraterritoriality federalism generic-drugs prescription-drugs price-control price-gouging state-police-powers state-regulation |
Does the Commerce Clause prohibit a state from protecting consumer access to essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs by requiring manufact… |
| 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… |
| 18-494 |
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 … |
| 18-482 |
Paul Hill v. Accounts Receivable Services, LLC |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
|
bosch-v-commissioner circuit-split eighth-circuit fair-debt-collection-practices-act interest-statute materiality materiality-requirement pre-judgment-interest state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
(1) Whether the Eighth Circuit may disregard this Court's instructions in Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc., 137 S. Ct. 1718 (2017) for constructi… |
| 18-477 |
Hugh Martin, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process easement-rights exhaustion-of-remedies federal-lands property-rights r.s.-2477 rs-2477 special-use-permit special-use-permits takings takings-clause |
Whether parties who own property inside national forest boundaries or other federally-owned lands, and who assert R.S. 2477 rights to easements access… |
| 18-479 |
Marc Schenkel v. Xyngular Corporation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-management civil-procedure civil-rights district-court district-court-authority due-process free-speech inherent-authority judicial-discretion pre-litigation-conduct prelitigation-conduct sanctions standing |
Whether a district court's inherent authority to
manage the disposition of cases, including by imposing
sanctions on a party, does not extend to condu… |
| 18-481 |
Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, dba Argus Leader |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20) |
circuit-split commercial-information commercial-or-financial-information competitive-harm confidential-information financial-information foia-exemption foia-exemption-4 freedom-of-information-act-foia statutory-interpretation |
1.Does the statutory term "confidential" in FOIA Exemption 4 bear its ordinary meaning, thus requiring the Government to withhold all "commercial or f… |
| 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… |
| 18-463 |
Bernard Morello v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-proportionality due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment proportionality state-law state-statute statutory-fines |
Does a properly enacted state statute imposing fines
and penalties violate the Eighth Amendment of the
United States Constitution if the state applies… |
| 18-467 |
Barbara Fletcher, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ambiguity-principles circuit-split civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process erisa federal-common-law labor-management-relations-act retiree-healthcare supreme-court-precedent |
Fletcher v. Honeywell International Inc. , 892 F.3d
217 (6th Cir. 2018) holds that a "CBA's general
durational clause applies to [retiree] healthcareb… |
| 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… |
| 18-435 |
LabMD, Inc. v. Tiversa, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-agency fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court government-fraud hazel-atlas intentional-misrepresentation judicial-procedure mens-rea rule-60 rule-60(d)(3) standing wilful-blindness |
Whether a judgment obtained by fraud on a
court must be set aside pursuant to Hazel-Atlas Glass
Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238 (1944) and
Fe… |
| 18-421 |
Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
co-defendant criminal-procedure extraneous-criminal-acts federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-trial jury-reliability prejudice rule-14a severance spill-over-effect zafiro-v-united-states |
Does a fair and consistent application of Rule 14(a) require this Court to re-examine its decision in Zafiro and clarify the factors to be considered … |
| 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… |
| 18-390 |
Sandra Pletos, et vir v. Makower Abatte Guerra Wegner Vollmer, PLLC , et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse civil-rights concealment contract contractual-rights debt-collection due-process fraud fraud-concealment homeowners-association rico-act rooker-feldman |
Whether Rooker-Feldman can be used to prevent parties from asserting their contractual rights, and new independent claims for relief based on statutes… |
| 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… |
| 18-384 |
Papierfabrik August Koehler SE v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-record adverse-facts-available antidumping-duty commerce-department corroboration facts-available judicial-review statutory-interpretation tariff-act |
Whether a court may rely on the Tariff Act's perceived purpose to override its specific statutory requirements for selecting antidumping duty rates. |
| 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… |
| 18-378 |
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. |
| 18-371 |
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. |
| 18-328 |
Kevin C. Rotkiske v. Paul Klemm, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Response Requested |
circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-protection discovery-rule fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the "discovery rule" applies to toll the
one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt
Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, … |
| 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 … |
| 18-300 |
Delano Farms Company, et al. v. California Table Grape Commission |
California |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
attribution commercial-speech compelled-speech compelled-subsidy first-amendment government-speech industry-advertising industry-group oversight speech-attribution |
Whether the compelled subsidy of promotional advertising by an industry group may be deemed "government speech," and thus shielded from First Amendmen… |
| 18-289 |
Alfred DeGennaro v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure-pleading-standards damages damages-calculation due-process fraud grubbs-v-kanneganti insurance-fraud monetary-value pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9b story-v-parchment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals improperly stated the law when it read the heightened pleading requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) for not… |
| 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… |
| 18-276 |
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 … |
| 18-264 |
New World International, Inc., et al. v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-litigation civil-procedure claim-preclusion collateral-estoppel cure dismissal first-suit issue-preclusion jurisdictional-defect legal-procedure personal-jurisdiction res-judicata second-suit suit-dismissal |
Whether jurisdictional defects in a first suit dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction can be cured in a second suit by alleging facts that were k… |
| 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… |
| 18-233 |
Indiezone, Inc., et al. v. Todd Rooke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1927 act-of-state-doctrine congressional-intent due-process extraterritorial-application federal-sanctions inherent-powers rule-44.1 sanctions sovereign-immunity |
Did congress intend the court's inherent powers and U.S. 28 U.S.C. § 1927 to apply extraterritorially allowing Rule 44.1 analysis to be applied to ove… |
| 18-224 |
Luke O. Pickens v. Brevard Police Testing and Selection Center |
Florida |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-discrimination-perceived-disability,civil-righ ada-discrimination-perceived-disability,public-pro ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-administration law-enforcement-training public-programs reasonable-accommodation |
Whether 42 USC §12132 bars a state agency from discriminating against a qualified individual, perceived by the agency as disabled, by excluding the in… |
| 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… |
| 18-219 |
Starsha M. Sewell v. Fidelity National Financial, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process economic-espionage executive-order-violation executive-orders fraud insurance-fraud judicial-misconduct mortgage-fraud ponzi-scheme racial-bias whistle-blower-reprisal whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation |
Whether Judge Grimm deprived the Appellant of leave to re-open a case to engage in 18 U.S.C. § 1519 Sarbanes Oxley Concealment of his use of the prest… |
| 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… |
| 18-165 |
DHL Supply Chain v. DEX Systems, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
|
calder-effects-test civil-procedure due-process electronic-server foreign-defendant forum-state internet-jurisdiction jurisdictional-analysis long-arm-statute minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction virtual-presence |
After Walden v. Fiore, 571 U.S. 277 (2014), may a United States court exercise personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant where that defendant's o… |
| 18-167 |
MCC (Xiangtan) Heavy Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd. v. Liebherr Mining & Construction Equipment, Inc., dba Liebherr Mining Equipment Newport News Co. |
Virginia |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights co-conspirators constitutional-law due-process forum-state nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction |
Whether the Due Process Clause permits a court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant based on the contacts of the defendant's… |
| 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… |
| 18-119 |
Gotech International Technology Limited, et al. v. Nagravision SA |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-procedure defendant-jurisdiction due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-claims federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure foreign-defendants jurisdiction-pleading personal-jurisdiction pleading pleading-requirements rule-4k2 subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a plaintiff invoking jurisdiction under Rule 4(k)(2) must plead that "the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction in any state's courts of ge… |
| 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… |
| 18-76 |
Tracey E. George, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-action section-1983 state-actors |
(1) Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil rights plaintiffs in a subs… |
| 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… |
| 18-45 |
David Louis Whitehead v. Netflix, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-process civil-procedure-subpoena civil-rights due-process federal-judge judicial-bias judicial-discretion marbury-v-madison pecuniary-interest standing subpoena subpoena-violation |
Whether Petitioner's case relating to Federal Judge violating the subpoena issue allows him to by-pass the appellate process to petition the Supreme C… |
| 18-43 |
Jesse Loor v. Jenny Bailey, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
as-applied-challenge censorship civil-rights correctional-institutions due-process facial-challenge first-amendment mail-regulations prison-mail prison-regulations thornburgh-v-abbott |
Whether the facial validity of a mail regulation automatically defeats an as-applied challenge to a jail's censorship of particular publications? |
| 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… |