| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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… |