innovation
15 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-950 | Urvashi Bhagat v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-standards due-process expert-testimony innovation nutrition-arts patent-law | The Respondents and the U.S. patent courts are obstructing advancement in nutrition and prevention by unlawfully denying patents, neutering innovation… |
| 24-47 | Return Mail, Inc. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corporation-v-cls-bank innovation judicial-interpretation patent patent-eligibility patent-law return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service section-101 | Whether the claimed invention is ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to 35 U.S.C. §101. | |
| 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 … |
| 20-1809 | VoIP-Pal.com, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-06-29 | Denied | 35-usc-101 innovation innovation-incentives judicial-framework legal-uncertainty patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law patent-system statutory-interpretation subject-matter-eligibility | What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim "directed to" a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two-st… | |
| 20-1119 | Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-02-16 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-103 graham-factors graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias innovation innovation-protection nonobviousness-indicia objective-indicia obviousness-standard patent patent-law | Whether a court must consider objective indicia of nonobviousness together with the other factors bearing on an obviousness challenge before making an… |
| 20-604 | 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. | |
| 19-1376 | Algignis, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | District of Columbia | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law administrative-state agency-jurisdiction catch-22 civil-rights environmental-law innovation innovation-barriers judicial-review private-enterprise regulatory-capture regulatory-risk standing standing-doctrine | This case is not really about standing; it is about whether a small, relatively unknown group of Americans will be allowed to try to solve their own l… |
| 19-1103 | INO Therapeutics LLC, et al. v. Praxair Distribution Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 drug-administration due-process eligibility innovation medical-research medical-treatment method-of-treatment patent patent-eligibility patient-outcomes personalized-medicine section-101 selective-treatment | Whether a method of treatment that requires doctors to selectively administer a drug to certain patients and not others to enhance patient outcomes is… |
| 19-1062 | CJ CheilJedang Corp., et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Amici (1) | claim-amendment doctrine-of-equivalents festo-corp-v-shoketsu innovation patent-infringement patent-law prosecution-history-estoppel public-notice public-notice-function tangential-relation | Whether, to avoid prosecution history estoppel under Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., "the rationale underlying the amendment" mus… |
| 19-832 | 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 … |
| 19-584 | Nuvo Pharmaceuticals (Ireland) Designated Activity Company, et al. v. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-11-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-112 enablement federal-circuit innovation patent patent-law pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-composition prior-art written-description | Whether the Federal Circuit erred by holding that, whenever the prior art teaches away from a pharmaceutical composition, the written description of a… |
| 19-521 | ChargePoint, Inc. v. SemaConnect, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Amici (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-v-cls-bank diamond-v-diehr innovation judicial-interpretation machine-or-process patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 | 1. Whether a patent claim to a new and useful improvement to a machine or process may be patent eligible even when it "involves" or incorporates an ab… |
| 19-522 | 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… | |
| 19-353 | 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… |
| 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… |