| 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. |
| 23A988 |
Return Mail, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1184 |
Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 23-7233 |
Chikezie Ottah v. National Grid |
Federal Circuit |
2024-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
35-USC-101 civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-review due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure patent standing statutory-provisions takings writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6984 |
Chikezie Ottah v. Verifone System Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-interpretation patent-eligibility patent-law procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions takings |
Question not identified. |
| 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. |
| 23-498 |
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. |
| 22-1066 |
CareDx Inc., et al. v. Natera, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 22-822 |
Avery Dennison Corporation v. ADASA Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 22-5382 |
Tyrone Hurt v. Alexander Williams, Jr. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5299 |
Michael G. Peters v. Andrew S. Hanen |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
35-usc-101 civil-rights due-process patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-22 |
David A. Tropp v. Travel Sentry, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (3) |
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… |
| 21-1554 |
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… |
| 21-1370 |
Spireon, Inc. v. Procon Analytics, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
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… |
| 21-1281 |
Interactive Wearables, LLC v. Polar Electro Oy, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
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… |
| 21-1228 |
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,… |
| 21-1106 |
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… |
| 21-1056 |
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… |
| 21-812 |
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… |
| 21-457 |
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… |
| 21-364 |
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… |
| 21-5585 |
Willie Lee Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing |
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| 21-5520 |
Brunson Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process individual-liberty judicial-review legal-precedent patent standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 20-1760 |
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… |
| 20-1289 |
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.
… |
| 20-892 |
Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Illumina, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 20-891 |
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
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 … |
| 20-604 |
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. |
| 20-6126 |
Edward Jones v. Candace Edward, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings |
The United States Court of Appeals do have jurisdiction to make judgment of on Appeals from the Craighead County Circuit Court. |
| 20-453 |
Consumer 2.0, Inc., dba Rently v. Tenant Turner, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 alice-test conventional-features graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias patent-eligibility preemption section-101 section-103 |
1) Whether preemption is a threshold and defining consideration that the lower courts must consider in determining whether a claimed invention is dire… |
| 20-439 |
Mantissa Corporation v. Ondot Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-exception fact-finding patent-eligibility pre-emption section-101 technical-field |
1) Has this Court's Alice exception to patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101
been improperly expanded to cover computer-implemented inventions that… |
| 20-5695 |
Tony DuPree v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation takings |
(1). Is the Florida Supreme Court correct in saying it lacks jurisdiction where Petitioner is bringing Actual Innocence claim, Newly Discovered Eviden… |
| 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… |
| 20-5547 |
Roger Lee Baker, Jr. v. Magistrate Court of Georgia, Talbot County |
Georgia |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 20-32 |
Steve Morsa v. Andre Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea claims-analysis federal-circuit patent patent-eligibility patent-office preemption section-101 undue-preemption |
This Court has held that any machine or process is eligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101, subject only to narrow exceptions where the p… |
| 19-1299 |
The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Techtronic Industries Co., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-05-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 19-1103 |
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… |
| 19-7863 |
Delores L. Knight v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-appellate-review judicial-review ninth-circuit patent sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-966 |
Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 19-7226 |
Tony Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 19-7058 |
In Re Ramsey Randall |
|
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 35-usc-101 civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech patent-eligibility standing |
Does the petitioner's arrest violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution's freedom of petition AND Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equ… |
| 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. |
| 19-597 |
Morris Reese v. Sprint Nextel Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 19-521 |
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… |
| 19-430 |
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… |
| 19-400 |
Garmin USA, Inc., et al. v. Cellspin Soft, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
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 … |
| 19-5366 |
Robert Curry v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogatory patent post-conviction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 19-43 |
Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 alice-standard alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law patent-litigation rule-36-affirmance section-101 |
In Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International , 573 U.S. 208 (2014), this Court prescribed standards and a mode of analysis for determining patent eligibil… |
| 18-1448 |
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… |
| 18-1397 |
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… |
| 18-1274 |
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… |
| 18-1223 |
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 … |
| 18-1114 |
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… |
| 18-7435 |
James Arthur Biggins v. Carl C. Danberg, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction patent patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-law standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 18-549 |
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… |
| 18-415 |
HP Inc., fka Hewlett-Packard Company v. Steven E. Berkheimer |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
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… |
| 18-371 |
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. |
| 18-277 |
Urvashi Bhagat v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Rehearing |
Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
' '35-usc-101" ' 'administrative-procedure-act' ' 'funk-brothers" ' 'myriad-genetics" ' 'patent-eligibility" ' 'patent-system" 35-usc-101 administrative-procedure-act Funk-Brothers Myriad patent-eligibility USPTO |
This petition presents a conflict between the incentive to invent, as the Constitution provides for, and the breadth of patent-eligible subject matter… |
| 18-252 |
Real Estate Alliance Ltd. v. Move, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
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… |
| 18-189 |
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… |
| 18-124 |
Two-Way Media Ltd. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
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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… |