| 25A82 |
Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ai-authorship copyright-office copyright-protection creative-works intellectual-property machine-generated-work |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5461 |
Ronald Ragan, Jr. v. Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation copyright-law copyright-protection eighth-circuit feist-decision originality-standard |
Whether the correct standard of copyrightability is the Constitutional and statutory standard of originality as articulated in this Court's unanimous … |
| 23A805 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Valancourt Books, LLC |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
copyright-deposit copyright-protection fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation library-of-congress |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5082 |
Benjamin Michael Dubay v. Stephen King, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggregation-of-traits character-protection character-traits comic-book-characters constitutional-rights copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-protection expert-testimony fact-question jury-determination |
1. The Copyright Act defines statutorily eligible works in 17 U.S.C. § 102(a). While § 102(a) does not list Comic Book Characters, some Circuit Courts… |
| 20-142 |
Michael Skidmore, as Trustee for the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust v. Led Zeppelin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
copyright-act copyright-act-of-1909 copyright-protection deposit-requirement musical-works ninth-circuit originality selection-and-arrangement sheet-music tangible-medium |
Whether or not the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc correctly held that musical copyright protection under the Copyright Act of 1909 is … |
| 19-5299 |
Samuel Rivera Rosado v. Lucid Energy, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-protection design-theft due-process intellectual-property patent patent-infringement patent-registration standing takings |
FIRST QUESTION
Whether in respect of the Court Justices, the U.S. Supreme Court cannot allow a
company to steal a person's copyright ownership, desig… |
| 18-8613 |
Quincy Magee v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
antitrust business-disputes civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement copyright-protection corporate-infringement due-process employment-rights fraud intellectual-property licensing patent patent-infringement patent-ownership standing trade-secret |
Legislative Goals
Quincy Magee has ownership of Quincy Magee's Companies Properties and Names Renaissance Media Productions - Aesthetic Media Product… |
| 18-956 |
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (77)Relisted (4) |
17-usc-102 17-usc-107 computer-code computer-program copyright-law copyright-protection fair-use federal-circuit intellectual-property software-development software-interface |
1. Whether copyright protection extends to a software interface.
2. Whether, as the jury found, petitioner's use of a software interface in the conte… |
| 18-728 |
Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement |
Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's "selection and arrangement" of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui… |