| 25-1011 |
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Unified Patents, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2026-02-24 |
Pending |
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America-Invents-Act inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-estoppel patent-litigation real-parties-in-interest |
To discourage unnecessary litigation and protect patent owners' rights, the America Invents Act requires a petition for inter partes review to identif… |
| 25A713 |
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Unified Patents, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
|
america-invents-act informational-right patent-review real-parties-interest standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25A14 |
Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
america-invents-act critical-date inter-partes-review patent-challenge printed-publication prior-art |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 23-315 |
VirnetX Inc. v. Mangrove Partners Master Fund, Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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 … |
| 22-927 |
Nike, Inc. v. Adidas AG, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 22-873 |
Ingenio, Inc., et al. v. Click-to-Call Technologies LP |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 20-631 |
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… |
| 20-333 |
Bozeman Financial LLC v. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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 … |
| 20-74 |
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 WaivedRelisted (2) |
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. |
| 19-8707 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
america-invents-act constitution-clause constitutional-prohibition contract-clause due-process government-grants patent patent-rights separation-of-powers standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the USPTO/PTAB (the "Agency ") and Federal Circuit were aware of
the prohibition of the Constitution mandated by this Court 1 against
repudi… |
| 19-8094 |
Caleb S. Motupalli v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-112 america-invents-act enablement interdisciplinary-invention interdisciplinary-team patent-enablement patent-examination patent-specification pre-aia pro-se single-skilled-person waiver |
35 U.S.C. §112 requires that the specification of a patent application describe the invention in such terms that those skilled in the art are enabled … |
| 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)Relisted (3) |
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 … |
| 19-966 |
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… |
| 19-601 |
Collabo Innovations, Inc. v. Sony Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (4) |
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. … |
| 19-120 |
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… |
| 18-999 |
Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Bennett Regulator Guards, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
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… |
| 18-7691 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
america-invents-act civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-grants due-process judicial-review patent patent-prosecution-history-estoppel patent-reexamination standing takings |
Whether the District Court and Circuit Court Judges have a duty to abide by the Constitution and rule per the Law of the Case and Law of the Land.
I.… |
| 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)Relisted (3) |
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 … |
| 18-183 |
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… |