| 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 … |
| 25-555 |
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 … |
| 25-5989 |
Chian Chiu Li v. Apple, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
enablement negative-limitation patent-law specification-requirement statutory-interpretation written-description |
Section 112(a) of Title 35 requires that a patent include a specification containing "a written description of the invention ... in such full, clear, … |
| 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… |
| 25A179 |
EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit harmless-error patent-law seventh-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 24A1215 |
MSN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
after-arising-technology enablement-doctrine federal-circuit genus-claim patent-law patent-validity |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 24-950 |
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… |
| 24-6473 |
Joshua Gunnar Olson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law claim-construction federal-circuit judicial-review patent-law patent-procedure |
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| 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… |
| 24-726 |
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… |
| 24A661 |
Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court en-banc-petition legal-reasoning patent-law summary-judgment |
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… |
| 24-518 |
ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure patent-law property-rights |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144, which requires the Federal Circuit to issue "opinion[s]" in PTAB appeals, is a reason-giving directive that prohibits the Fed… |
| 24-461 |
Island Intellectual Property LLC v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
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 … |
| 24-294 |
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… |
| 24-47 |
Return Mail, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corporation-v-cls-bank innovation judicial-interpretation patent patent-eligibility patent-law return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service section-101 |
Whether the claimed invention is ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to 35 U.S.C. §101. |
| 23-1349 |
Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confidentiality federal-circuit inter-partes-review on-sale-bar patent-law patent-law-35-usc-311-b printed-publication prior-art public-accessibility |
Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 311(b) , a petition for inter partes review ("IPR") may challenge claims "only on a ground that could be raised under section … |
| 23A1111 |
Roku, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari-extension federal-circuit patent-law statutory-interpretation technology-dispute trade-commission |
Question not identified. |
| 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. |
| 23-6984 |
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. |
| 23A685 |
Evan H. Nordby v. Social Security Administration |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-circuit judicial-review notice-of-appeal patent-law supreme-court-rule time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 23-768 |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 23-739 |
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… |
| 23-575 |
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… |
| 23-494 |
MacNeil IP LLC v. Yita LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 23-421 |
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… |
| 23A344 |
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
KSR-standard obviousness patent-law pharmaceutical-patents predictable-result prior-art |
This is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari, not a petition itself. The document does not contain a "Q… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 22-919 |
Stephen Thaler v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
artificial-intelligence innovation-rights invention inventor inventor-definition patent patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the Patent Act categorically restrict the statutory term "inventor" to human beings alone? |
| 22-873 |
Ingenio, Inc., et al. v. Click-to-Call Technologies LP |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse 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… |
| 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 WaivedRelisted (2) |
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)… |
| 22-671 |
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 … |
| 22-604 |
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… |
| 22-5928 |
David L. Hildebrand v. Wilmar Corporation |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antitrust business-dealings contract-law contractual-law due-process patent-expiration patent-law royalties royalty-agreement settlement-intent standing |
1. Is it illegal to agree to continue to pay royalties or fees of any kind to an inventor following the expiration of his patent.
2. Should a court b… |
| 22-298 |
Jump Rope Systems, LLC v. Coulter Ventures, LLC, dba Rogue Fitness |
Federal Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 22-203 |
Apple Inc., et al. v. California Institute of Technology |
Federal Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
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… |
| 22-38 |
CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1404a federal-circuit jurisdictional-limits mandamus patent-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-transfer writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Federal Circuit, a court with limited jurisdiction that includes cases "arising under" patent law, also has subject matter jurisdiction ov… |
| 22-11 |
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… |
| 21-1567 |
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)Relisted (6) |
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… |
| 21-1527 |
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… |
| 21-1093 |
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 … |
| 21-1036 |
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… |
| 21-893 |
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 … |
| 21-757 |
Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (33)Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
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… |
| 21-438 |
Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
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… |
| 21-413 |
Infinity Computer Products, Inc. v. Oki Data Americas, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 21-170 |
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,… |
| 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… |
| 20-1604 |
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… |
| 20-1420 |
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… |
| 20-1394 |
PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
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… |
| 20-1380 |
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… |
| 20-7519 |
Angadbir Singh Salwan v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstract-idea administrative-law civil-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent patent-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings |
(1) The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) judge Ms. Leonie
Brinkema, the clerks of CAFC, and the CAFC panel of judges O'Ma… |
| 20-1284 |
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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. |
| 20-1291 |
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. §… |
| 20-1258 |
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 … |
| 20-1165 |
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… |
| 20-1119 |
Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-103 graham-factors graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias innovation innovation-protection nonobviousness-indicia objective-indicia obviousness-standard patent patent-law |
Whether a court must consider objective indicia of nonobviousness together with the other factors bearing on an obviousness challenge before making an… |
| 20-1112 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
|
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law contract-clause due-process equal-protection government-contracts patent patent-law separation-of-powers stare-decisis |
1. Whether Justice Barrett, as the last standing
Justice with original jurisdiction, with the same
duty and oath as the lower courts to enforce the … |
| 20-891 |
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 … |
| 20-863 |
Akeva L.L.C. v. Nike, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
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. |
| 20-769 |
GS Cleantech Corporation, et al. v. Adkins Energy LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Until the Federal Circuit's decision in this patent case, every Circuit had held that an issue resolved on partial summary judgment, and not reopened … |
| 20-751 |
Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 20-440 |
Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Relisted (2) |
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. |
| 20-408 |
Fredman Bros. Furniture Company, Inc. v. Bedgear, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2) |
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. |
| 20-380 |
Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC, et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-112a enablement genus-claim genus-claims patent patent-law pharmaceutical-innovation pharmaceuticals statutory-interpretation written-description |
The Patent Act provides that patents must "contain a written description of the invention" in "such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable… |
| 20-364 |
Thomas Wilkins v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure article-iii-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-circuit inventor-correction inventorship jurisdiction patent patent-law standing uspto-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-313 |
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… |
| 20-260 |
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 … |
| 20-230 |
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… |
| 20-158 |
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 (… |
| 20-68 |
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 … |
| 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… |
| 19-1459 |
Polaris Innovations Limited v. Kingston Technology Company, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (3) |
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),… |
| 19-1204 |
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… |
| 19-1131 |
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… |
| 19-7905 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Exxon Mobil Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-emergency constitutional-interpretation contract-clause due-process government-grants judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent martial-law patent patent-law patent-rights separation-of-powers treason |
1. Whether the concerted wanton breach of solemn Oaths collectively failing to
enforce the Laws of the Land and Stare Decisis Laws of the Case specif… |
| 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 … |
| 19-7798 |
Pablo Cantu Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances mootness patent-law standing takings |
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| 19-1061 |
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Ltd., et al. v. Eli Lilly and Company |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
claim-amendment doctrine-of-equivalents festo-corp-v-shoketsu festo-corp-v-shoketsu-kinzoku-kogyo-kabushiki-co patent-claim patent-infringement patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-equivalents patent-prosecution prosecution-history-estoppel tangential-exception |
Under patent law's "doctrine of equivalents," a patent holder can allege infringement even when the defendant does not literally practice every elemen… |
| 19-1062 |
CJ CheilJedang Corp., et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
claim-amendment doctrine-of-equivalents festo-corp-v-shoketsu innovation patent-infringement patent-law prosecution-history-estoppel public-notice public-notice-function tangential-relation |
Whether, to avoid prosecution history estoppel under Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., "the rationale underlying the amendment" mus… |
| 19-1012 |
General Electric Company v. Raytheon Technologies Corporation, fka United Technologies Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights competition competitive-harm competitor-standing due-process inter-partes-review judicial-precedent patent patent-infringement patent-law standing |
Whether competitive harm alone suffices to confer Article III standing to appeal an IPR determination, or whether an appellant must also show concrete… |
| 19-1002 |
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… |
| 19-829 |
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… |
| 19-619 |
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… |
| 19-584 |
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… |
| 19-521 |
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… |
| 19-455 |
ARRIS International Limited v. ChanBond, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
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… |
| 19-414 |
Medtronic, Inc. v. Mark A. Barry |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
burden-of-proof experimental-use federal-circuit patent-law patent-law-35-usc-102-b reduction-to-practice statutory-bar supreme-court |
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) (2011) bars the patenting of an invention that was "in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date … |
| 19-400 |
Garmin USA, Inc., et al. v. Cellspin Soft, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)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 … |
| 19-324 |
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… |
| 19-253 |
Straight Path IP Group, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 19-167 |
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 … |
| 19-43 |
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… |
| 18A1325 |
Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
alice-corp claim-construction federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 18-1515 |
Eli Lilly and Company v. Erfindergemeinschaft UroPep GbR |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 18A1266 |
Straight Path IP Group, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-circuit jurisdictional-issue patent-law time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9383 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection erroneous-decisions first-amendment judicial-misconduct patent-law patent-rights |
Whether the lower court vacating hearings and arbitrarily ordering Petitioner to amend her complaint and the Judge acting as attorney to Defendants or… |
| 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… |
| 18-1289 |
Allergan, Inc., et al. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blocking-patent blocking-patent-doctrine commercial-success graham-v-john-deere long-felt-need objective-indicia objective-indicia-of-non-obviousness obviousness patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-obviousness prior-art |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in this case, as
it did in Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. v. Roxanne Laboratories, Inc., 903 F.3d 1310 (Fed. Cir. 2018), … |
| 18-1280 |
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. v. Roxane Laboratories, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
blocking-patent-doctrine blocking-patents burden-of-proof graham-v-john-deere nonobviousness objective-indicia obviousness patent patent-law patent-obviousness pharmaceutical-innovation prior-art |
Under 35 U.S.C. § 103, a patent "may not be obtained . .. if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed… |
| 18-1274 |
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… |
| 18-1144 |
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… |
| 18-1072 |
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… |
| 18-999 |
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… |
| 18-988 |
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… |
| 18-7435 |
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. |
| 18-916 |
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 … |
| 18-899 |
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. |
| 18-823 |
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 … |
| 18-801 |
Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. NantKwest, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11)Relisted (2) |
35-usc-145 administrative-law civil-action civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-act patent-application patent-law personnel-expenses standing statutory-interpretation uspto USPTO-litigation |
Whether the phrase "[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings" in 35 U.S.C. 145 encompasses the personnel expenses the USPTO incurs when its employees, in… |
| 18-779 |
Power Integrations Inc. v. Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
|
apportionment customer-demand entire-market-value-rule federal-circuit patent-damages patent-infringement patent-law patent-litigation willful-infringement |
Whether a plaintiff that proves that a patented feature creates the basis for customer demand for infringing products is entitled to patent damages ba… |
| 18-692 |
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… |
| 18-599 |
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)Relisted (2) |
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… |
| 18-495 |
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… |
| 18-441 |
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… |
| 18-388 |
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… |
| 18-303 |
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… |
| 18-314 |
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… |
| 18-252 |
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… |
| 18-183 |
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… |
| 18-127 |
Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
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 WaivedRelisted (2) |
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… |
| 18-77 |
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… |
| 18-52 |
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."… |