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25A1126 Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. v. Powder Springs Logistics, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-04-13 Application fact-finding federal-circuit federal-rule-of-evidence-702 jury-trial patent-cases seventh-amendment Question not identified.
25-1021 Richard Cornelius Jackson v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2026-02-25 Pending Response Waived due-process equitable-tolling federal-circuit freedom-of-information-act merit-systems-protection-board veterans-employment-opportunities-act Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Federal Circuit erred in denying equitable tolling under the Veterans Employment Opportunities Ac…
25-953 Finesse Wireless LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending Response RequestedResponse 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 …
25A884 CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2026-02-05 Application federal-circuit patent-appeal patent-validity prior-art rule-36 unpatentability Question not identified.
25A845 CAO Lighting, Inc. v. Wolfspeed, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-23 Application administrative-procedure agency-deference due-process federal-circuit patent-review summary-affirmance Question not identified.
25-853 United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. Federal Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived abstract-idea alice-framework federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 technological-process Congress has authorized inventors to patent "any new and useful process," or "any new and useful improvement thereof." 35 U.S.C. § 101. This Court has…
25-555 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 …
25-462 Chinook Landing, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied adverse-interest federal-circuit government-easement property-rights quiet-title-act statute-of-limitations Is a Quiet Title Act claim timely if it is filed within twelve years of the government asserting an interest in plaintiff's property, after government…
25-435 Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-10-09 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) administrative-agency federal-circuit legal-standing proximate-causation trademark-opposition zone-of-interests Whether a party desiring to participate in an administrative agency proceeding, including a trade mark opposition proceeding at the United States Pate…
25-428 Percipient.ai, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Amici (6) contract-award court-of-federal-claims federal-circuit interested-party procurement-law statutory-interpretation Congress has provided the Court of Federal Claims with exclusive jurisdiction to hear claims brought by "an interested party objecting to " 1) "a soli…
25-375 CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-review appellate-procedure federal-circuit patent-law rule-36 statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36, which allows the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to issue an affirmance without opinion when r…
25-373 Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived article-three due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of issuing affirmances without opinion under Rule 36 in Merit Systems Protection Board cases unconstitutiona…
25-5736 In Re Ahmad Aljindi 2025-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process federal-circuit judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief obstruction-of-justice 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, led by Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore, violate its mandatory duty under FRAP 27 and …
25-341 EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived damages-evaluation due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit jury-award seventh-amendment Whether the Federal Circuit violated the Seventh Amendment by overturning the jury's damages award based on its own evaluation of the sufficiency of t…
25-270 Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-injury estoppel federal-circuit intellectual-property patent-infringement patent-standing 1. whether Federal circuit erred in affirming sum mary Judgement of non-infringement of Utah Court Judgement No2023-2329 based on estoppel in con trav…
25A233 Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Synthego Corp. Federal Circuit 2025-08-28 Presumed Complete biotechnology crispr federal-circuit patent-enablement prior-art research-and-development Question not identified.
25-225 MSN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-08-26 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) after-arising-technology claim-construction federal-circuit patent-infringement patent-validity section-112 In a patent case, "after-arising technology" is technology that was not invented until after the patent's filing. Neither this Court nor the Federal C…
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.
25-158 R. J. Reynolds Vapor Company v. Altria Client Services LLC Federal Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response Waived apportionment expert-testimony federal-circuit patent-damages patent-infringement royalty-calculation Most products are made up of numerous components and features, patented and unpatented both. Their commercial success may be attributable to consumer …
24-7441 In Re Amy R. Weissbrod Gurvey 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-jurisdiction due-process ex-parte federal-circuit patent-infringement sovereign-immunity The State of New York has a long history of retaliating and engaging in malicious prosecution and unprivileged defamation of individuals who pursue fe…
24A1228 City of Fresno, California, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete certiorari federal-circuit municipal-appeal procedural-review supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
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.
24-1181 Matthew T. McLeay v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-review argument-revival federal-circuit judicial-discretion legal-precedent waiver This Court has made clear "in both civil and criminal Greenlaw v. United States, 554 U.S. 237, 243 (2008). Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 554 U.S. 471,…
24-1137 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…
24-1058 CloudofChange, LLC v. NCR Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response Waived direct-use federal-circuit method-claims patent-infringement system-claims vicarious-liability Whether the same vicarious liability analysis for direct use infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a) must be applied to both method and system claims.
24-997 James Doyle, dba Rocky Mountain Ventures, dba Environmental Land Technologies, Ltd. v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-exhaustion federal-circuit property-rights regulatory-action ripeness-doctrine takings-claim Under Knick v. Township of Scott, 588 U.S. 180 (2019), a regulatory takings claim is ripe for adjudication in federal court when the government reache…
24-916 Koss Corporation v. Bose Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel dismissal-stipulation federal-circuit non-merits-determination patent-claims rule-12(b)(6) When a district court grants a Rule -12(b)(6) motion to dismiss but does so without prejudice and with leave to amend, may that non-merits deter minat…
24-6592 Lawrence E. Mattison v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-orders-doctrine court-transfer federal-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is required to vacate a transfer order if transfer violated 28 U.S.C. §1631. Whether an e…
24-893 Eric Jamie Katz v. Department of Justice Federal Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-judge due-process federal-circuit hostile-work-environment merit-systems-protection-board whistleblower-retaliation 1. Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying the request for a rehearing en banc, given that Eric Katz suffered through a hostile work environment …
24A777 ATOS, LLC, dba RideMetric v. Allstate Insurance Company Federal Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review due-process federal-circuit patent-review ptab-decision summary-affirmance Question not identified.
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 I - D\\} Co^^resCT\Mc^c\ vn extern of th Feotval (^(X^s-VeMes of w~Ht ^\o T\^V O'tAe^S Oft cotv^e^Oj? 2. For ^o^oStS of ^6^W a0\\^ lojys \ av\\cVC Of…
24A730 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied administrative-procedure civil-service-reform due-process federal-circuit merit-systems-protection-board whistleblower-protection Whether the ongoing delay and procedural missteps in the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and Federal Circuit proceedings have caused irreparable…
24-723 Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived federal-circuit judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-infringement seventh-amendment standard-of-review I. Whether the Federal Circuit applied an incorrect standard of review for appeals of a Judgment as a Matter of Law (JMOL) and, as a result, improperl…
24A662 Nazir Khan v. Artivion, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete appeal-denial certiorari extension-of-time federal-circuit pro-se supreme-court Question not identified.
24A646 American Medical Equipment, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied appellate-record contract-dispute covid-impact federal-circuit rule-10e summary-judgment Question not identified.
24A577 Koss Corporation v. Bose Corporation Federal Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete federal-circuit issue-estoppel patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-preclusion pleading-sufficiency Question not identified.
24A497 Audio Evolution Diagnostics, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-11-19 Presumed Complete alice-doctrine federal-circuit mayo-standard patent-eligibility section-101 technological-innovation Question not identified.
24A469 Urvashi Bhagat v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit patent-dispute summary-judgment 1. May courts substantially disregard a party's briefs resulting in failure to hear the party and due process violations per Snyder v. Com. Of Mass., …
24-443 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure federal-circuit filing-date mandamus merit-systems-protection-board office-of-special-counsel Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) erred by failing to recognize May 20, 2024, as the proper filing …
24A388 Celanese International Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission Federal Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete administrative-proceeding appellate-rights corporate-review federal-circuit international-trade trade-law 1. This case presents an important statutory-interpretation question of first impression: whether, under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA"), …
24-428 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, et al. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-circuit hatch-waxman-act patent-infringement regulatory-use safe-harbor statutory-interpretation Whether, under Hatch-Waxman's safe harbor, an infringing act is "solely for uses reasonably related" to the federal regulatory process, when the infri…
24A324 Harris Brumfield, Trustee for Ascent Trust v. IBG LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-10-03 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari federal-circuit judicial-review time-extension trust-interests Question not identified.
24-236 Steve Campbell v. Tube-Mac Industries, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response Waived co-inventor-rights federal-circuit patent-assignment patent-jurisdiction unclean-hands wipo-treaty 1. As Congress has signed the United States of America to the rules and stipulations of the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Federal Circuit thr…
24A195 Louis Frantzis v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete administrative-exhaustion administrative-law federal-circuit judicial-review time-extension veterans-benefits Question not identified.
24-114 Zebra Technologies Corporation v. Intellectual Tech LLC Federal Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii complex-contracts exclusionary-rights exclusive-licensee federal-circuit licensing-rights patent-infringement patent-standing standing Whether a party has Article III standing to assert a claim for patent infringement against an accused infringer who has the ability to obtain a licens…
24A8 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-07-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-circuit judicial-discretion patent-litigation vexatious-litigant 1. Whether the Federal Circuit's Order is not void for vagueness. What is a "vexatious" litigant? Not defined and therefore has not been proven. 2. W…
24A2 Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-03 Presumed Complete appellate-review federal-circuit judicial-sanction pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
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.
23-1217 Chestek PLLC v. Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Amici (5) administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit notice-and-comment patent-office patent-trademark-office rulemaking statutory-interpretation Whether the PTO is exempt from notice-and-comment requirements when exercising its rulemaking power under 35 U.S.C. § 2(b)(2).
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.
23A969 Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied case-appeal extension-of-time federal-circuit judicial-review pro-se writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23-1118 Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Bumble Trading LLC Federal Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-251 claim-interpretation claim-limitation federal-circuit original-patent original-patent-requirement patent patent-reissue reissue statutory-construction u.s.-industrial-chemicals-inc-v-carbide-carbon-che Patent Owner and Petitioner obtained reissue patents with new patent claims, which broadened certain limitations and narrowed others vis-à-vis the ori…
23A883 Cellect, LLC v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2024-04-04 Presumed Complete federal-circuit obviousness-type-double-patenting patent-expiration patent-term-adjustment patent-term-extension patent-validity Question not identified.
23-7127 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1254 28-usc-1257 administrative-law constitutional-mandate federal-authority federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal merit-systems-protection-board state-authority 1. Jurisdiction Over Habeas Corpus Decisions from the Federal Circuit: Does jurisdiction over habeas corpus decisions originating within the administr…
23-1023 Jodi A. Schwendimann v. Neenah, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied and making it impossible for Patent Owner to seek and the Federal Circuit's Rule 36 affirmance does thereby making it impossible for Patent Owner and claim-anticipation federal-circuit judicial-transparency patent-claim-construction patent-law,patent-claim-construction,federal-circu patent-review rule-36-judgment Is it permissible for the Federal Circuit to issue a Rule 36 Judgment, affirming certain claims as anticipated, where the Federal Circuit has been pre…
23-892 Jason Antoine Brock v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equal-employment-opportunity federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(2) is fair in allowing 30'days for judicial review in comparison to 60-day rule within 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A) and 5 U.S.C…
23A716 Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Bumble Trading LLC Federal Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari due-process federal-circuit judicial-transparency summary-judgment Question not identified.
23-804 Liquidia Technologies, Inc. v. United Therapeutics Corporation Federal Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law federal-circuit induced-infringement inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-validity preclusion preclusion-doctrine ptab statutory-framework Under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA"), a party may challenge the validity of a patent in an inter partes review proceeding before the Pate…
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.
23-779 David Forsythe v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Amici (3) accardi-doctrine administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit judicial-review notice-requirements statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits To ensure that veterans' claims are presented to agency decisionmakers with all available support, Congress has directed the Department of Veterans Af…
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…
23-6405 Brian K. Allen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-circuit fundamental-rights plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-procedure 1. Whether the near consensus Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals' application of plea agreement appeal waivers as to subsequent sentencing proceedings,…
23-713 Joshua E. Bufkin v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-01-03 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) 38-usc-7261 benefit-of-doubt benefit-of-the-doubt-rule claims-process federal-circuit judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits veterans-benefits-act-of-2002 veterans-court Must the Veterans Court ensure that the benefit-of-the-doubt rule was properly applied during the claims process in order to satisfy 38 U.S.C. § 7261(…
23A562 Tarun Surti v. Fleet Engineers, Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete evidence-exclusion federal-circuit injunctive-relief mudflap-design patent-infringement patent-remedies Question not identified.
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…
23-498 Realtime Data LLC, dba IXO v. Fortinet, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 35-usc-101 abstract-idea computer-functioning data-compression federal-circuit patent patent-claims patent-eligibility section-101 standing Whether the claimed inventions are ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to Section 101.
23-421 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…
23A246 Rowland J. Martin, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied federal-circuit fifth-circuit judicial-review marbury-v-madison patent-applications subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-245 ChromaDex, Inc., et al. v. Elysium Health, Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response Waived alice-mayo-framework alice-v-cls-bank biotechnology federal-circuit inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus natural-phenomena patent-eligibility Whether the two-step Alice/Mayo framework governs the eligibility of patents allegedly directed to natural phenomena.
23-223 Charles J. Jenkins v. TriWest Healthcare Alliance, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-review rule-56 separation-of-powers stare-decisis sua-sponte 1. Whether the triumvirate overstepped their authority when they decided (sua sponte) to invoke, incite, insurrect, or for the lack of a better desc…
23-185 HIP, Inc. v. Hormel Foods Corporation Federal Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied 35-usc-116 conception-standard federal-circuit federal-circuit-interpretation joint-invention joint-inventorship patent patent-claim patent-inventorship patent-specification statutory-construction 1. Whether joint inventorship requires anything more than a contribution to conception that is stated in a patent claim. 2. Whether, under Section 11…
23-137 Yvonne Crews v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure clear-error congressional-intent effective-date federal-circuit statutory-interpretation substitution substitution-of-claimant veterans-benefits When Congress enacted 38 U.S.C. § 5121A to authorize for the substitution of a deceased claimant was its intent clear that a substituted appellant cou…
23-141 Rowland J. Martin, Jr., Individually and as Administrator to the Estate of Johnnie Mae King v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-jurisdiction remand removal removal-action statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Before the Court is a novel case and controversy involving a patent related conflict of laws. The case was removed from state court after the expirati…
23-5179 Arnes Becirovic v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ Question not identified.
23-21 Stuart R. Harrow v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2023-07-06 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (4) administrative-law federal-circuit federal-employee filing-deadline judicial-review jurisdictional jurisdictional-deadline merit-systems-protection-board nonjurisdictional statutory-interpretation When a federal employee petitions the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to review a final decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board, …
22-1220 Jeffrey A. Killian v. Katherine K. Vidal, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-doctrine alice-mayo-test due-process federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 uspto I. Have the numerous departures of the Supreme Court's Alice/Mayo jurisprudence by the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit (hereinafter "the Feder…
22-1102 Acquisition 362, LLC, dba Strategic Import Supply v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure court-of-international-trade customs-law federal-circuit import-protests jurisdictional-remedies standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that Petitioner's protests concerning rate and refund determinations were untimely and the Cour…
22-7490 Wendell W. Phillips v. United States Court of Federal Claims Federal Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12b1-motion abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process federal-circuit illegal-exaction just-compensation legislative-enactments mandamus-jurisdiction rule-10 substantive-private-rights Whether, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, has jurisdiction to rule on a petition for a writ of mandamus, against a lower co…
22-7365 Gina Russomanno v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-rights civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit frcp-rule-60 judicial-review patent phillips-v-county-of-allegheny pro-se rule-60 standing Whether, the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the FEDERAL Circuit, pursuant to Pro Se plaintiff…
22-1001 NST Global, LLC, dba SB Tactical v. Sig Sauer Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent-construction patent-preamble patent-validity 1. Whether the Federal Circuit's affirmance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision that results from the Board's sua sponte construction of a…
22-873 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…
22-815 Victor B. Skaar v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law all-writs-act class-action exhaustion exhaustion-requirement federal-circuit injunctive-relief judicial-jurisdiction statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-court Does the Veterans Court have statutory or inherent authority to include veterans whose individual claims are not yet exhausted in a class seeking inju…
22-803 Virentem Ventures, LLC v. Google LLC Federal Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived claim-construction due-process federal-circuit patent patent-invalidity ptab ptab-determination rule-36 1. Does the Federal Circuit's use of Rule 36 to affirm without opinion PTAB invalidity determinations that are challenged based on pure questions of l…
22-722 Frank Calapristi v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response Waived contract-law federal-circuit government-contractor government-contracts government-control government-involvement implied-contract implied-contracts tucker-act In Lynch v. United States , 292 U.S. 571, 579 (1934) the Court held that when the United States enters into contractual relations, its rights and duti…
22-6223 Byron O. Woods Sr. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard conclusions-of-law court-of-appeals fact-finding federal-circuit judicial-conflict legal-findings pullman-standard rule-52(a) standard-of-review (1) The Pullman-Standard , 456 U.S. 273 (1982), this Court developed which is the standard for reviewing jurisprudence for issues of fact and issues …
22-439 Fraternal Order of Police, United States Park Police Labor Committee v. Department of the Interior Federal Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure employment-law federal-circuit judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation union union-standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's interpretation of 5 U.S.C. § 7703(a)(1) is incorrect in finding that an employee's union, on th…
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…
22-5670 Ahmad Aljindi v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation court-of-federal-claims deprivation-of-rights due-process federal-circuit hate-crimes judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice supreme-court-abuse 1. Did the United States Federal Government (FG) violate the United States Constitution and the Charter of the United Nations (UN) when the Supreme Co…
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…
22-98 Joseph Cacciapalle v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied dividend-appropriation fannie-mae federal-circuit freddie-mac government-taking property-rights shareholder-interests shareholder-rights takings takings-clause In September 2008, the Federal Housing Finance Agency ("FHFA") placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship, and on behalf of each entity en…
22-5142 David Adeyi v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-delay civil-rights covid-19-disruption disability-compensation due-process federal-circuit judicial-review pandemic-disruption service-connected-injury veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Should veteran be allowed to move his case forward, after he filled late s the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, due to the Covid-19 Pand…
22-5122 Faye Rennell Hobson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-circuit merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in dismissing the Petitioners Whistleblower By Proxy Case, when she was non-selected …
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…
22-26 Larry G. Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response Waived commercial-offer contract-law federal-circuit on-sale-bar patent-infringement patent-invalidation prior-art standing third-party-quotation May a price quotation invoke the on-sale bar when made by a third party who had no right to sell the invention and with no involvement by the patentee…
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…
21-1567 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…
21-1526 Gilbert P. Hyatt v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure federal-circuit judicial-review mandamus-standard patent patent-office-rule standing summary-judgment 1. Whether the ordinary summary judgment standard of Rule 56 applies to review of agency action, as held by the First, Fifth, Ninth, and District of C…
21-1505 Mark H. Bonner v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived article-i-court clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error collateral-estoppel equitable-jurisdiction equitable-remedy federal-circuit res-judicata veterans-claims The U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims is an Article I court, and does not have the general equity jurisdiction of U.S. District Courts or othe…
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…
21-1267 Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-procedure damages egregious-conduct federal-circuit halo-electronics judicial-discretion patent patent-damages statutory-interpretation willful-infringement (1) Whether enhanced damages under 35 U.S.C. § 284 may be awarded absent a finding of egregious infringement behavior; and (2) Whether the court of a…
21-1256 Robert M. Athey, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1) american-rule attorney-fees common-law costs equal-access-to-justice-act federal-circuit fee-shifting statutory-interpretation Did a panel of the Federal Circuit err by entirely exempting the United States as a matter of law from liability for such fees and costs pursuant to t…
21-1150 Sharon Finizie, et al. v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process factual-findings federal-circuit judicial-review legal-misapplication merit-systems-protection-board standard-of-review 1) Did the decisions/opinions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Merit Systems Protection Board constitute erroneou…
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 …
21-1056 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…
21-7010 Jabari J. Johnson v. James Johnson Tenth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP 35-usc-112 federal-circuit patent patent-act standing written-description /. P/tf/hZ/tf /JfA'-Z/ie S/z^/cwe ZZ///Z r//A -f/te AA/ie /Zfz/r z/zscAz/zok / y?#z/ /fs/ye J ? tfp' tf/tfj //fz A/'A'ff'Z Ayi/y/ r/fAf-/5Z /. A/a/m-…
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…
21-6843 In Re Kevin Brewer 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process federal-circuit fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california scienter The entire panel of active judges in 8th Circuit Court Of Appeals have evaded, refused and failed to address the merits of a constitutional claim with…
21-888 Intel Corporation v. VLSI Technology LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law agency-rule agency-rulemaking arbitrary-or-capricious federal-circuit inter-partes-review leahy-smith-act leahy-smith-america-invents-act notice-and-comment-rulemaking patent patent-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denyin…
21-811 Yanbin Yu, et al. v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response Waived claim-construction diamond-v-diehr federal-circuit mayo-test mayo-v-prometheus parker-v-flook patent-claim patent-claims patent-eligibility point-of-novelty Whether, when applying the test for patent eligibility set forth in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U.S. 66 (2012), …
21-719 Sandwich Isles Communications, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied civil-rights communications-act confiscatory-rates due-process federal-circuit federal-communications-commission rate-regulation regulatory-taking takings Whether the lower court's holding that a regulatory taking claim based on confiscatory rates must be made at the Federal Communications Commission "wi…
21-691 FG SRC LLC v. Microsoft Corporation Federal Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied appellate-review arthrex-ruling civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-circuit gvr-order patent standing summary-decision takings This petition seeks only a Grant, Vacate, and Remand (GVR) Order. This petition seeks a GVR Order regarding two judgments by the Court of Appeals for…
21-686 Maria Esparraguera v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied administrative-law civil-service-reform-act constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board senior-executive-service Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that neither it nor the MSPB may review a career senior executive's removal from the Senior Executive Ser…
21-540 Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso Indiana 2021-10-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) claim-scope exclusive-jurisdiction federal-circuit federal-patent-law gunn-v-minton jurisdictional-split patent-jurisdiction patent-validity state-court-adjudication state-court-jurisdiction Whether a dispute raises substantial issues of federal patent law when its resolution necessarily depends on patent-law determinations regarding claim…
21-465 James L. Kisor v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit post-traumatic-stress-disorder pro-veteran-canon regulatory-interpretation service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the term "relevant official service department records" in 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c)(1)'s "reconsideration" provision encompasses all records that …
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…
21-432 Adolfo R. Arellano v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-09-21 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) 38-usc-5110 disability-benefits disability-compensation equitable-tolling federal-circuit irwin-v-department-of-veterans-affairs judicial-review statutory-deadline veterans veterans-benefits (1) Does Irwin's rebuttable presumption of equitable tolling apply to the one-year statutory deadline in 38 U.S.C. § 5110(b)(1) for seeking retroactiv…
21-350 Infineum USA L.P. v. Chevron Oronite Company LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-09-07 GVR administrative-review appointments-clause certiorari-review federal-circuit federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-41 final-written-decision judicial-mandate mandate patent-proceedings united-states-v-arthrex 1. Whether this Court should vacate the judgment below in view of its recent decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1970 (2021), and r…
21-330 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act antitrust-patent appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split due-process federal-circuit local-circuit mandamus patent-infringement supervisory-mandamus usurpation-of-duty Federal Circuit and eight United States circuit courts, the Supreme Court must revisit and settle the law and iterate the factors to be considered to …
21-170 Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied 35-usc-112 35-usc-112f claim-construction federal-circuit indefiniteness nautilus-standard nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-law statutory-interpretation Whether a patent claim may be invalidated for indefiniteness only if, under 35 U.S.C. § 112, para. 2 (now subsection 112(b)) as construed by Nautilus,…
21-158 Bobcar Media, LLC v. Aardvark Event Logistics, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-circuit rule-36 seventh-amendment 1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36 (wherein a minority of circuit courts issue judgmen…
21-118 Apple Inc. v. Optis Cellular Technology, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act mandamus-petition patent patent-review uspto Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office denying …
21-35 Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5-usc-702 administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process employment-law federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction opm standing 1. Whether the Federal Circuit has Jurisdiction or "lacks jurisdiction " to determine its original and lower court 's jurisdiction in OPM Investigatio…
21-36 Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdiction-on-the-merits jurisdictional-review merit-systems-protection-board opm personnel-suitability standing 1. Whether Petitioner has standing to correct a jurisdictional error before the Lower Courts for "want of jurisdiction " or "jurisdiction on the merit…
20-1700 Ultratec, Inc. v. CaptionCall, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-validity retroactivity 1. Does retroactive application of the inter partes review process violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitu…
20-8157 In Re Blake Joseph Sandlain 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-circuit mandamus personal-jurisdiction Question not identified.
20-1589 Kris Kaszuba, dba Hollywood Group v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Relisted (2) 15-usc-1064 administrative-law appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit judicial-review lexmark principal-officers standing trademark trademark-law 1. Has the Federal Circuit erred in refusing to follow this Court's Lexmark precedent, and in not applying precedent to standing under 15 U.S.C. § 106…
20-1552 Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. Federal Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing 1. A majority of a Federal Circuit panel ruled that respondent has standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 to cancel petitioner's trademark registration even …
20-1452 Rick C. Sasso v. Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied 28-usc-1295(a)(1) 28-usc-1338(a) breach-of-contract declaratory-judgment federal-circuit federal-patent-laws jurisdiction patent-jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether this is a case "arising under" federal patent laws under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) within the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(…
20-1394 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…
20-1363 Merit Medical Systems, Inc. v. Nazir Khan, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied 35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court federal-circuit patent patent-infringement rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions section-285 If this Court determines in Case No. 20-773 that the Federal Circuit erred in affirming the award of attorney fees as sanctions under Rule 11, should …
20-1339 Richard Sowinski v. California Air Resources Board Federal Circuit 2021-03-24 Dismissed civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit infringement-suit issue-preclusion patent patent-preclusion preclusion res-judicata Whether the Federal Circuit erred in creating and applying a patent-specific preclusion doctrine that bars new issues and new claims that would surviv…
20-1271 Daryl R. Blanton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived 38-usc-5109a administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error due-process federal-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Is the Cook standard to establish CUE in a VA decision erroneously restrictive?
20-1139 Florence Jones v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-decision agency-decision-making circuit-split due-process federal-circuit judicial-review retrospective-elaboration veterans-affairs veterans-benefits When a federal agency fails contemporaneously to explain its reasons for an action, the law speaks of two options. One is for the agency to act anew. …
20-1126 Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo, et al. v. Unknown Defendants Massachusetts 2021-02-17 Denied 35-usc-145 35-usc-261 adverse-possession federal-circuit patent-application patent-ownership property-rights quiet-title standing-doctrine try-title uspto-procedure Does a party asserting ownership to a patent application have a right to a state (commonwealth) action like either a Massachusetts quiet action or a M…
20-1110 Sandoz Inc., et al. v. Immunex Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Amici (1) biosimilar-product double-patenting exclusivity federal-circuit invention obviousness obviousness-type-double-patenting patent patent-exclusivity patent-ownership substantial-rights Under federal patent law, a patent owner may receive only one period of exclusivity for its invention and may not obtain a second patent on the same i…
20-1094 Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied administrative-agency administrative-law agency-determination civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review methodology procedural-fairness retroactive-application retroactive-methodology Whether the Federal Circuit erred by affirming, in conflict with the D.C. Circuit, the practice that an administrative agency may penalize the subject…
20-1099 Gadsden Industrial Park, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied 5th-amendment court-of-federal-claims due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings takings-clause tucker-act I. Whether this Court should fill a statutory and jurisprudential void in Tucker Act inverse condemnation "takings" law to resolve the obvious consti…
20-934 Haritha Samaranayake, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act due-process evidentiary-record federal-circuit patent separation-of-powers standing statutory-jurisdiction Whether, in creating the required evidentiary record de novo rather than merely reviewing the agency Record below, the Court of Appeals for the Federa…
20-773 Nazir Khan, et al. v. Merit Medical Systems Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees civil-procedure federal-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se rule-11 sanctions service-of-process Whether—in line with holdings from the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits—a motion for Rule 11 sanctions may be gr…
20-769 GS Cleantech Corporation, et al. v. Adkins Energy LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law standard-of-review summary-judgment Until the Federal Circuit's decision in this patent case, every Circuit had held that an issue resolved on partial summary judgment, and not reopened …
20-760 In Re Libby A. Demery 2020-12-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-judge administrative-review federal-circuit merits-systems-protection-board procedural-errors supervisory-power whistleblower-protection-act (1) Whether the Supervisory Power of this Court in voked recall of the mandate of Federal Circuit to vacate an unreviewed, Merits Systems Protection …
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.
20-6167 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1653 arbitration-award civil-procedure compensatory-damages declaratory-relief federal-circuit federal-circuit-court henry-schein motion-to-dismiss standing summary-affirmance Question not identified.
20-532 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Relisted (2) claim-preclusion federal-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings patent patent-infringement perjury pro-se-plaintiff sanctions U.S. court of appeals for the Federal Circuit has entered a decision in this case in conflict with the decision of U.S. Court of appeals for the Feder…
20-6091 Cherrie A. Hollie v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equitable-claims federal-circuit oral-argument standing veterans-claims A. Did the Federal Circuit err in dismissing Petitioner's appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Affairs for lack of jurisdiction? B Did …
20-525 Harold E. Rutila, IV v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit hearing-waiver johnson-v-zerbst merit-systems-protection-board statutory-interpretation Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board violated Petitioner's due process rights when an administrative judge failed to provide him a hearing, in v…
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.
20-364 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.
20-355 Arctic Cat Inc. v. Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-17 Dismissed Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived 35-usc-287 damages federal-circuit infringement-notice marking-statute notice-of-infringement patent-act patent-damages patent-marking statutory-interpretation willful-infringement Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that "notified of the infringement" and "such notice" under §287(a) refer only to communications from th…
20-167 Lilibeth Michelson v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law awol civil-rights de-novo-standard disciplinary-action due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-system-protection-board merit-systems-protection-board substantial-evidence 1. Whether the Federal Circuit erred by reviewing a Merit System Protection Board Administrative Judge's decision that a medical note provided after t…
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 (…
20-131 Essity Hygiene and Health AB v. Cascades Canada ULC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation discretion federal-circuit forfeiture judicial-discretion pending-cases precedential-decision scalia Following a precedential decision sustaining an Appointments Clause challenge, does a court have discretion to apply the decision in pending cases whe…
20-68 Cheetah Omni LLC v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived contract-interpretation contract-law federal-circuit federal-common-law implied-license license-continuation patent patent-law rodriguez-v-fdic uniquely-federal-interests Did the Federal Circuit violate Rodriguez when it invoked its own federal common law rule, superseding controlling state contract law, to hold that a …
20-32 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…
20-5022 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Sara Glines, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process federal-circuit judicial-interpretation pleadings precedential-opinion standing Tetmonoe, COunnckl AU<en1 A>?., fscspecrfo GoGmu TAG Tferrion Fo^ <A)Fir oF Ceen'oRe feUouiifOGr Ttfe OF>PoBG&tfto "pe£ Cu.iRtUM"3 Crpi-nion oF Tfc …
19-1451 Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge federal-circuit forfeiture ksr-international-co-v-teleflex-inc obviousness patent-act patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board pending-case separation-of-powers While Sanofi's appeal was pending before the Federal Circuit, the court decided Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., 941 F.3d 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2019),…
19-1452 Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-02 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-adjudicators administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit inferior-officers lucia-v-sec patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers Whether administrative patent judges are "principal" or "inferior" Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause.
19-1378 Phazzer Electronics, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ex-parte-review federal-circuit patent-cancellation patent-claims patent-damages remand standing uspto-cancellation uspto-reexamination Is the Federal Circuit affirmation of the patent damages now incorrect in light of the change of circumstances created by cancellation of all patent c…
19-1381 BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc., fka MonoSol RX, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-law-review agency-discretion appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review mandate-implementation patent patent-office sas-institute 1. The Federal Circuit vacated three inadequate final written decisions and remanded the inter partes reviews (IPRs) with the order to implement this …
19-1323 B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Facebook, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights costs due-process federal-circuit judicial-imprimatur legal-relationship mootness preclusion prevailing-party standing texas-state-teachers-association-v-garland Following this Court's decision in CRST, does the standard for determining whether a defendant is a "prevailing party" require the "material alteratio…
19-1299 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…
19-1228 Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-04-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment 7th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure claim-construction due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-infringement-non-infringement rule-36 seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment 1. Whether under Rule 36 of the Federal Circuit's Rules of Procedure the Federal Circuit may affirm a judgment of non-infringement without opinion and…
19-8167 Charles Talbert v. Blanche Carney, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment just-compensation patent takings-clause (1) Did the Appeals Court abuse its discretion when denying Petitioner's... (2) Did the Appeals Court, when applying the "three strikes" provision of…
19-1173 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3) article-iii-courts comcast domestic-patent-infringement federal-circuit importation international-trade-commission international-trade-commission-itc mootness patent-infringement section-337 section-337-tariff-act statutory-interpretation vacatur 1. Whether the Federal Circuit's judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission's orders, pursuant to Unit…
19-1131 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…
19-1124 Chrimar Systems, Inc., dba CMS Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ale USA Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-agency administrative-law administrative-review article-iii-court article-iii-courts article-iii-jurisdiction damages damages-judgment executive-branch-decision federal-circuit finality finality-standard patent-infringement patent-law-finality patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity standard-of-review 1. Whether the Federal Circuit may apply a finality standard for patent cases that conflicts with the standard applied by this Court and all other cir…
19-1092 In Re TCT Mobile International Limited 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure contact-attribution due-process eastern-district-of-texas federal-circuit forum-state mandamus nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce unilateral-activity venue 1. Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying mandamus and failing to correct a district court ruling finding personal jurisdiction over a nonreside…
19-7774 Ronald Muhammad v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Seventh Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-preemption judicial-review precedent preemption reconciliation standing 1. Is the 7th circuits decision appropriate for this courts review, and if so why must this court hear and decide this? 2. Would any irreparable harm…
19-1026 Ford Motor Company v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (4) customs-classification federal-circuit import-duties international-trade post-importation-modification precedent statutory-interpretation tariff-classification tariff-provisions vehicle-classification waiver worthington-v-robbins I. Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding, contrary to this Court's precedent, that a product's post-importation modification and use can determ…
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…
19-832 Apple Inc. v. VirnetX Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) apportionment apportionment-rule federal-circuit innovation license-valuation patent-damages patent-infringement patent-invalidation pending-litigation prior-licenses 1. A patented invention often makes but a small contribution to a complex end-product's value. Thus, for well over a century, this Court has enforced …
19-801 Eddie N. Dela Cruz v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law eligibility-criteria federal-circuit filipino-veterans military-service pro-veteran-canon remedial-legislation service-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits wwii Whether the Federal Circuit has erred in its narrow construction of ARRA Section 1002—a remedial veteran's statute providing a benefit for Filipinos w…
19-610 Mushkin, Inc. v. Anza Technology, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-15c-relation-back clear-error conduct-transaction-occurrence federal-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice relation-back standard-of-review Whether the appropriate standard of review for a "relation back" determination under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(c) is: (1) the de novo standard of review appl…
19-604 Ernest L. Francway, Jr. v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law burden-of-proof department-of-veterans-affairs due-process federal-circuit judicial-presumption medical-examination medical-examiner medical-expertise presumption-of-competency pro-claimant va-medical-examiners veterans-benefits Congress has established a veterans-benefits system that is uniquely pro-claimant. In veterans-benefit cases, every statutory and regulatory presumpti…
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…
19-571 Intel Corporation, et al. v. Continental Circuits LLC Federal Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived claim-construction claim-interpretation claim-scope disclaimer disclaimer-doctrine federal-circuit ordinary-meaning patent patent-construction specification specification-analysis written-description Whether courts should construe a patent's claims in light of the written description of the invention disclosed in the patent's specification, or whet…
19-522 Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. IBG LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied abstract-idea civil-procedure computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-act patent-act-1952 patent-eligibility standing In Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208 (2014), the Court declined once again to define the scope of the "abstract idea" exce…
19-470 Darin Jones v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-procedure-time-limits civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-circuit federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board mixed-cases rule-60(b) time-bar 5 U.S.C. § 7702(e)(1)(B) states that an employee may file a civil action in district court 120 days after filing an appeal with the Merit Systems Prot…
19-445 Neology, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response Waived clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process federal-circuit filing-date notice patent patent-claim patent-validity procedural-due-process validity written-description Whether, as a matter of law and procedural due process, a patent can be invalidated without notifying the patent owner about the specific invalidity c…
19-430 Athena Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC, dba Mayo Medical Laboratories, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (11) 35-usc-101 chemical-process chemical-steps diagnostic-method federal-circuit medical-diagnostics medical-innovation molecular-detection novel-molecules patent-eligibility patent-protection precedent subject-matter-eligibility Whether a new and specific method of diagnosing a medical condition is patent-eligible subject matter, where the method detects a molecule never previ…
19-414 Medtronic, Inc. v. Mark A. Barry Federal Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Amici (2) burden-of-proof experimental-use federal-circuit patent-law patent-law-35-usc-102-b reduction-to-practice statutory-bar supreme-court 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) (2011) bars the patenting of an invention that was "in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date …
19-418 Benoit Brookens v. Patrick Pizzella, Acting Secretary of Labor District of Columbia 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-rights district-court due-process federal-circuit jurisdiction merit-systems-protection-board mixed-appeal non-discrimination (A) Whether the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction over non-discrimination issues in a mixed appeal filed within 60 days of the decision by the Merit Sy…
19-389 Jay Anthony Dobyns v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Amici (1) breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law duty-of-good-faith fair-dealing federal-circuit federal-contracts federal-government good-faith good-faith-and-fair-dealing government-contracts undercover-agents (1) Whether the duty of good faith and fair dealing implied in all contracts, including contracts between private parties and the United States, permi…
19-353 Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. IBG LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived abstract-idea civil-procedure computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-act patent-act-1952 patent-eligibility standing In Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208 (2014), the Court declined once again to define the scope of the "abstract idea" exce…
19-337 Regents of the University of Minnesota v. LSI Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-09-12 Granted Amici (3) administrative-proceeding civil-procedure federal-agency federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-validity sovereign-immunity state-university university Whether the inter partes review proceedings brought by private respondents against the University of Minnesota in this case are barred by sovereign im…
19-324 Technology Properties Limited LLC, et al. v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process standing supreme-court-precedent the-patent-act federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law prosecution-history-disclaimer separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's development and application of the doctrine of "prosecution history disclaimer" i…
19-268 Park Properties Associates, L.P., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied breach-of-contract contract-administration contract-jurisdiction court-of-federal-claims federal-circuit federal-claims-court government-contracts privity privity-doctrine third-party-administrator tucker-act The question presented is whether the Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction over a breach-of-contract claim against the government, where the gover…
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…
19-211 Time Warner Cable, Inc., et al. v. Sprint Communications Company, L.P. Federal Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Amici (1) 35-usc-112 35-usc-112a 35-usc-284 apportionment federal-circuit garretson-v-clark patent-claims patent-damages patent-infringement patent-validity reasonable-royalty written-description 1. Whether the Federal Circuit erred by affirming a damages award based on unapportioned end-user service revenues. 2. Whether the Federal Circuit er…
19-152 Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied false-advertising federal-circuit food-drug-cosmetic-act international-trade-commission lanham-act pom-wonderful-v-coca-cola tariff-act tariff-act-1930 trade-practices unfair-competition unfair-trade-practices When a manufacturer files a Lanham Act claim under the Tariff Act for competitive injuries caused by unfair trade practices, is the claim barred as a …
19-144 James Thomas Ryan v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process employment federal-circuit federal-circuit-court-of-appeals federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board notice-and-opportunity personnel-action whistleblower-protection James Ryan, the Petitioner, request this Petition for Writ of Certiorari be granted because the personnel action violated his constitutional right to …
19-120 IBG LLC, et al. v. Trading Technologies International, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response Waived america-invents-act covered-business-method federal-circuit federal-circuit-split patent-eligibility patent-review patent-validity statutory-interpretation technological-invention Whether a patent that does not satisfy the first prong of § 42.301(b)—that is, that does not recite a novel and non-obvious technological feature—clai…
19-103 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…
19-58 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
19-53 Branded LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived descriptive-marks federal-circuit generic-marks lanham-act principal-register trademark-descriptive trademark-descriptiveness trademark-distinctiveness trademark-generic trademark-genericness trademark-infringement trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration trademark-trial-and-appeal-board I. Whether the Federal Circuit test impermissibly categorizes "descriptive" marks as unprotectable "generic" marks, on the basis of the mark describin…
19-48 B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied bose disgorgement federal-circuit fraud fraud-standard lanham-act lanham-act-fraud patent rule-59-motion standard-of-review therasense trademark trademark-law uspto willfulness Under Section 14(3) of the Lanham Act an allegation of fraud on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) can arise in multiple contexts. A fraudul…
19-43 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…
18-1549 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…
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.
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.
18A1269 Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete attorney-fees buckhannon-doctrine equal-access-to-justice federal-circuit judicial-review tactical-mooting Question not identified.
18A1246 Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind v. PDS Consultants, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied certiorari federal-circuit government-contract irreparable-harm judicial-review stay-pending-appeal Question not identified.
18A1232 Time Warner Cable, Inc., et al. v. Sprint Communications Company, L.P. Federal Circuit 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete apportionment federal-circuit jury-verdicts patent-damages patent-infringement written-description Question not identified.
18-1474 Sunoco, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1) congressional-intent excise-tax federal-circuit renewable-fuels statutory-interpretation tax-credits tax-incentives tax-liability tax-system Whether the Federal Circuit properly held that tax credits operate as a reduction of tax liability rather than as a payment of taxes owed.
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…
18-1418 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…
18-1397 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…
18-1343 Princeton Digital Image Corporation v. Adobe Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure consent-final-judgment consent-judgment cross-appeal federal-circuit final-judgment interlocutory-ruling jurisdictional-dismissal standing third-circuit In accordance with Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay, 437 U.S. 463 (1978) and Microsoft Corp. v. Baker, _ U.S. _, 137 S.Ct. 1702 (2017), the Federal Circui…
18-8930 Amy Rebecca Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-1295 28-usc-1338 attorney-misconduct conflicts-of-law constitutional-access federal-circuit patent-appeal-jurisdiction patent-appeals patent-conflicts-of-interest patent-damages patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-statutes pro-se-litigation Whether the Second Circuit was void of jurisdiction to adjudicate the instant appeal and improperly defied US patent statutes and Federal Circuit law …
18-1199 InvestPic, LLC v. SAP America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Amici (8) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-v-cls-bank computer-implemented-process federal-circuit inventive-concept judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility physical-realm preemption Does the Federal Circuit's "physical realm" test contravene the Patent Act and this Court's precedent by categorically excluding otherwise patentable …
18-1170 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
18-1144 Natural Alternatives International, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference agency-guidance federal-circuit intellectual-property judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board priority property-law property-rights trips Did the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit err in analyzing rulings by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board when it failed to base its decision on…
18-1114 TS Patents LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 ashcroft-v-iqbal claim-dismissal federal-circuit novel-improvements novel-invention novel-technical-improvements patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-infringement patent-presumption patent-validity presumption-of-validity routine-and-conventional rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 technical-improvements Can a court dismiss a patent infringement complaint under Rule 12(b)(6), for a lack of patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §101, when the complaint and…
18-1058 Janice Smets v. Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion civil-rights civil-servant due-process employment federal-circuit federal-courts mixed-case mspb non-jurisdiction summary-judgment title-vii 1. When a civil servant changes a claim to a 'mixed case' during the District Court's non-hearing proceedings and she files to remand based on non-jur…
18-1028 Moda Health Plan, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-02-06 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) appropriations appropriations-riders bait-and-switch federal-circuit government-contracts government-obligation health-care health-exchanges health-insurance insurance statutory-commitment statutory-interpretation statutory-promise takings Whether Congress can evade its unambiguous statutory promise to pay health insurers for losses already incurred simply by enacting appropriations ride…
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…
18-899 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.
18-849 HTC Corporation v. 3G Licensing, S.A., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1391 28-usc-1400b federal-circuit foreign-defendant patent-infringement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute This patent infringement case squarely presents a question acknowledged by the Court but left unanswered in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Grp. Brand…
18-801 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…
18-712 Jerry Artrip v. Ball Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied amendment civil-procedure claim-dismissal complaint-amendment district-court federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-infringement standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's patent infringeme…
18-692 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…
18-600 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…
18-549 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…
18-495 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…
18-408 Kohn Law Group, Inc. v. Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Amici (2) appellate-review appellate-review-standard armour-standard armour-v-united-states civil-contempt civil-contempt-standard consent-decree district-court-discretion federal-circuit fifth-circuit injunction-interpretation interpleader legal-standard mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper-co non-consent-order 1. What is the standard for judging allegations of civil contempt of an injunction or other disputed order, as distinct from a consent de cree? Is it …
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…
18-5825 Eric Lamont Johnson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit international-trade-commission judicial-review patent patent-infringement standing counsel forfeifed My Meritoriols clain that wauld havk guaranteed reliet when. he placed it in the Foot note and not in the body of the Motion. He als…
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…
18-207 George Duggan v. Department of Defense Ninth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense agency-burden clear-and-convincing-evidence federal-circuit personnel-actions prima-facie prima-facie-retaliation protected-disclosures retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-enhancement-act Whether after a prima facie retaliation for whistleblowing has been found under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 does the Agency's…
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…
18-88 Richard Gramm v. Deere & Company Federal Circuit 2018-07-18 GVR certiorari claim-construction claim-institution federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab sas-institute-v-iancu supreme-court-procedure In light of SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu, 138 S. Ct. 1348 (2018), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate, and remand the Federal Circuit's decision…
18-77 Advanced Video Technologies LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure federal-circuit involuntary-plaintiff joinder patent patent-law rule-19 standing supreme-court Did the Federal Circuit properly create an exception to Rule 19 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in patent law, requiring a dismissal of a case…
18-38 Illya Erwin v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5-cfr-315-804 5-usc-1221 5-usc-2302 administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-circuit personnel-action probationary-employee prohibited-personnel-practice termination-defense whistleblower whistleblower-protection 1. Whether, in defense of a whistleblower claim of wrongful termination by a probationary employee, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 1221, the agency may claim …
18-21 Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-precedent circuit-courts civil-procedure due-process factual-stipulation federal-circuit judicial-procedure legal-binding noninfringement patent-infringement precedent stipulation 1. Whether the Federal Circuit may ignore a factual stipulation, contrary to this Court's precedent, and decisions of numerous circuit courts, holding…