| 25-964 |
TNSG Health Co., Ltd., et al. v. Murray Colin Clarke, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
|
circuit-split intellectual-property lanham-act trademark-infringement trademark-registration used-in-commerce |
Under the Lanham Act, any "trademark used in commerce" may be registered. 15 U.S.C. § 1051. That "used in commerce" standard is more lenient than the … |
| 25-753 |
Zioness Movement, Inc. v. The Lawfare Project, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
|
consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act legal-standing source-identification trademark-ownership |
1. Whether, under the Lanham Act, a court or jury may find joint ownership of a trademark between competing entities—neither of which pleaded or prove… |
| 25-568 |
Jaime Rogozinski v. Reddit, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brand-identity intellectual-property platform-rights social-media trademark user-generated-content |
Who owns the trademark for a user-created online community on a social media platform: the social media platform that provides the technical infrastru… |
| 25-449 |
Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-14 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ai-generated-works artificial-intelligence authorship copyright-law creative-works intellectual-property |
1. Whether works outputted by an AI system without a direct, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted. |
| 25-5794 |
Jasmine E. Golden v. Amazon |
North Carolina |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-justice civil-rights corporate-misconduct gatekeeper-order intellectual-property pro-se-litigation |
1. Petitioner was denied appropriate justice and retribution for the intentional maligning of her brand name, GoldenPrints, LLC, and intellectual prop… |
| 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… |
| 25-217 |
CeramTec GmbH v. CoorsTek Bioceramics LLC, fka C5 Medical Werks, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
design-functionality evidence-standard intellectual-property product-design trademark-law utility-patent |
Whether under this Court's decision in TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc., 532 U.S. 23 (2001), a utility patent that produces a product… |
| 25A82 |
Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ai-authorship copyright-office copyright-protection creative-works intellectual-property machine-generated-work |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1263 |
Designworks Homes, Inc., et al. v. Columbia House of Brokers Realty, Inc., dba House of Brokers, Inc., dba Jackie Bulgin & Associates, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
architectural-design commercial-use copyright-law fair-use intellectual-property transformative-use |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6839 |
Ralph W. Baker, Jr. v. Ta-Nehisi P. Coates, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Pending |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
copyright-law expression-of-ideas intellectual-property judicial-interpretation literary-rights originality |
Whether the court of appeals departed from this Court's decision that an author's arrangement of words is protectible:
The right thus secured by the … |
| 24-1016 |
RiseandShine Corporation, dba Rise Brewing v. PepsiCo, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Pending |
CVSGResponse RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split federal-trademark intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion statutory-interpretation trademark-law |
Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under 15 U.S.C. § 1114. |
| 24-1011 |
Jem Accessories, Inc., dba Xtreme Cables, a New Jersey Corporation v. Harman International Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split intellectual-property laches lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-law |
Whether courts may borrow state statutes of limitations to create presumptions of laches in federal trademark actions under the Lanham Act.
Whether c… |
| 24-953 |
Lerner and Rowe PC, an Arizona Corporation v. Brown Engstrand & Shely LLC, dba Accident Law Group, an Arizona Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion trademark-infringement |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has created conflicts with the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits … |
| 24-729 |
Forrest L. Geist v. Kansas State University Foundation, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights intellectual-property property-protection safe-harbor sovereign-immunity takings-clause |
Q: May a natural person, whose IP is taken by state gov't w/o payment, seek fair redress under the self-executing Takings Clause if that state's legis… |
| 24A573 |
Kenneth Carey, et al. v. Jonathan Kirk, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
contract-dispute copyright creative-attribution intellectual-property music-rights record-label |
Question not identified. |
| 24A532 |
Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
business-tort employment-retaliation injunctive-relief intellectual-property software-misappropriation trade-secrets |
Question not identified. |
| 24-537 |
Canadian Standards Association v. P.S. Knight Company, Limited, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-14 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
copyright-law government-edicts intellectual-property legal-protection merger-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government-edicts and merger doctrines strip concededly copyrighted and copyrightable works of protection under the Copyright Act merely b… |
| 24A380 |
Mahfooz Ahmad v. Colin Day, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
employment-discrimination frivolous-appeal habeas-corpus intellectual-property pro-se-litigation summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 24A358 |
Binyomin Rutstein v. Compulife Software, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
copyright-law data-extraction database-access intellectual-property trade-secrets web-scraping |
Question not identified. |
| 24A272 |
David Whitehead v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-misconduct contract-dispute copyright-infringement fbi-investigation freedom-of-information-act intellectual-property |
Question not identified. |
| 24-301 |
William French Anderson, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-expenses economic-espionage intellectual-property legal-deductibility sixth-amendment trade-secrets |
Whether Anderson's attorney fees incurred in defense of a false criminal claim that was brought by his former business partner turned competitor and f… |
| 23-1252 |
Bill Gaede, et ux. v. Michael Delay, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
|
copyright-act copyright-infringement false-designation false-designation-of-origin intellectual-property lanham-act origin-clause scientific-priority usurpation |
Whether usurpation of scientific priority constitutes a violation under either the 'false designation of origin' clause of the Lanham Act or the copyr… |
| 23-752 |
Y.Y.G.M. SA, dba Brandy Melville v. Redbubble, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-consequences circuit-split contributory-liability contributory-trademark-infringement intellectual-property knowledge-standard legal-standard reasonable-steps specific-infringement trademark-infringement trademark-law |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Second and Tenth Circuits, that a defendant may be held liable for contributor… |
| 23-6201 |
Courtney Green v. General Mills World Headquarters, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process eavesdropping harassment intellectual-property non-consensual-monitoring privacy-violation reasonable-privacy surveillance unjust-enrichment |
During August of 2020 through February of 2021 I, the plaintiff Courtney Green Purchased and used a combination of honey o's, quaker bunches of oats g… |
| 23A235 |
Hasbro, Inc., et al. v. Markham Concepts, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
17-usc-505 attorney-fees circuit-split copyright-infringement fee-shifting intellectual-property |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7800 |
Mac Truong v. Richard Michael DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech intellectual-property pro-se-litigation standing standing-doctrine |
Does Petitioner, Dmt MacTruong, a male U.S. citizen living in New Jersey, have standing to sue in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of… |
| 22-1126 |
In Re Dorothy M. Hartman |
|
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering government-overreach intellectual-property judicial-misconduct patent-rights separation-of-powers |
1) Should Judges of Appellate Courts have the right to ignore, manipulate, or even destroy evidence in cases pending before them in support of the Fed… |
| 22-7013 |
Carl Puckett, et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction intellectual-property legal-standing pro-se-petition property-dispute standing trademark-infringement |
Question not identified. |
| 22-552 |
Camellia Grill Holdings, Inc. v. Grill Holdings, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split contractual-terms due-process due-process-clause exxon-mobil inextricably-intertwined intellectual-property property-rights rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine |
1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split in the wake of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005) and elucid… |
| 22-6126 |
Jeffrey Salt v. Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-contempt civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intellectual-property non-party non-party-injunction trademark trademark-dispute |
Were Jeffrey Salt's fifth amendment due process rights violated when the District Court, in a federal civil trademark case between two corporations, r… |
| 22-347 |
Diece-Lisa Industries, Inc. v. Disney Store USA, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
expressive-work first-amendment intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion reverse-confusion trademark-infringement trademark-law |
1. Does the First Amendment provide an infringer blanket immunity for trademark infringement across all categories of goods so long as they can claim … |
| 22-5220 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Jatinder Singh, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-statutes intellectual-property procedural-error standing tax-evasion |
1) USCA failed to vacate the Sua sponte order of dismissing the complaint is error
2) Lower Courts dismissing/denying petitioner 's Intellectual prop… |
| 22-35 |
Yufan Zhang v. UnitedHealth Group, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment arbitration burden-of-proof due-process employment-termination equal-protection evidence-destruction intellectual-property |
In this case, the evidence Zhang used to have as proof of his claims was taken away and destroyed by UnitedHealth Group at time Zhang was fired becaus… |
| 21-8012 |
Soraya Maria Rigor v. Dale Carlsen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process intellectual-property punitive-damages racketeering special-relationship takings university-trustees |
[i]n what circumstances may punitive damages be awarded under the 1)
United States Constitution, when civil violations by California State
University … |
| 21-1299 |
Nicholas D. Scoyni v. Daniel R. Salvador, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-recusal procedural-rules recuse service-mark service-marks takings-clause trademarks |
1. Does the district court have the right to adjudicate an intellectual property case without addressing parties' pleas, disregarding legal precedence… |
| 21-417 |
Sulzer Mixpac AG v. A&N Trading Company, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split functionality intellectual-property lanham-act legal-interpretation product-features product-functionality trademark-protection utility |
Whether any degree of utility categorically renders a product feature functional and thus ineligible for federal trademark protection under the Lanham… |
| 21-384 |
Moreh J. Buchanan v. Sony Music Entertainment Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access access-evidence copyright-infringement demonstration-songs dissemination entertainment-lawyer intellectual-property music-industry unauthorized-copying will-smith |
Petitioner is a songwriter, music publisher, singer /rapper, artist/composer that wrote, produced and recorded 5 in particular original demo/demonstra… |
| 21-209 |
Huping Hu, et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 intellectual-property judicial-exceptions natural-phenomenon operability-standard patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art quantum-entanglement reproducibility-of-results scientific-discovery section-101 |
Whether the PTO's varied standards, buttressed by the decisional law of the lower reviewing courts, for determining operability under § 101 are biased… |
| 21-5223 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. CBS Television Network, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights content-moderation copyright-infringement data-collection digital-privacy fair-use fourth-amendment intellectual-property privacy-policy social-media user-consent |
The lower counts over looked The plant Statement on isty fhis appents Shrerdd v ge forwacd. the lowee couts wever reviewed the hodging Of EXIBET LLL A… |
| 20-1652 |
Meghan Belaski, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confidential-information double-jeopardy fifth-amendment intellectual-property related-action securities-exchange-commission securities-law takings-clause whistleblower whistleblower-award |
Do the statutory rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in order
to qualify for whistleblower award, violate the Double Jeopardy Clause in t… |
| 20-1612 |
Monib Zirvi, et al. v. Jay T. Flatley, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constructive-notice fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice intellectual-property misappropriation patent pleading-stage standing storm-warnings trade-secret trade-secret-misappropriation |
1. Did the Second Circuit err in holding, in contrast to the Federal Circuit, that under the "inquiry notice" standard applicable to trade secret misa… |
| 20-7741 |
Wen Dong Zhao v. Department of State |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights department-of-state due-process embassy-communication federal-investigation freedom-of-information government-misconduct intellectual-property judicial-review letter-disposition standing |
(1) I went to American Embassy in Thailand twice with two letters. I mailed two letters through post office. Why Department of State deny? Money?
(2)… |
| 20-1391 |
Sportswear, Inc., dba Prep Sportswear v. Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split consumer-confusion federal-registration intellectual-property related-goods service-mark trademark-infringement unrelated-goods |
1. Does the scope of a federally-registered service mark extend to unrelated goods bearing that service mark?
2. Does the defendant's copying of a ma… |
| 20-7519 |
Angadbir Singh Salwan v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstract-idea administrative-law civil-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent patent-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings |
(1) The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) judge Ms. Leonie
Brinkema, the clerks of CAFC, and the CAFC panel of judges O'Ma… |
| 20-751 |
Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech
20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud |
The Florida Bar, an integrated Bar system under the jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, has disbarred an attorney who has posted what amounts t… |
| 20-706 |
Stone Creek, Inc. v. Omnia Italian Design, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-precedent circuit-split disgorgement disgorgement-of-profits intellectual-property intentional-misconduct judicial-precedent mishawaka-rubber trademark-infringement unjust-enrichment willfulness |
Does the Ninth Circuit's refusal to disgorge profits in this case of intentional infringement involving the identical mark on identical products confl… |
| 20-624 |
Larry Golden v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
|
7th-amendment civil-rights due-process intellectual-property patent patent-rights pleading-standards pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process seventh-amendment standing |
Is it a question of law, for the District Court and/or the Appeals Court judges to unjustly violate a Pro Se litigant's procedural due process, or vio… |
| 20-5532 |
Larry Golden v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-review fifth-amendment government-taking government-use implied-in-fact-contract intellectual-property just-compensation takings |
If the Government: on the Executive level accepts a person's intellectual property, passes it on to a government agency to be used with the public wit… |
| 20-74 |
Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Eugene H. Luoma, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
GVR |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law america-invents-act enablement intellectual-property judicial-review obviousness patent-eligibility patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity prior-art written-description |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8459 |
Todd Erling Becker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure copyright-infringement damages fair-use intellectual-property substantial-similarity |
Whether there was probable cause to arrest Mr. Becker for the Florida burglary and robbery crime.
2. Did the FBI agent impliedly threaten Mr. Becker … |
| 19-1290 |
Michael T. Bennett v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
admissions-of-guilt character-design civil-procedure copyright-infringement damages defamation discovery intellectual-property plagiarism poor-man's-copyright standing |
1. If the Court finds that the Marvel Character "Falcon " in the 2014 Captain
America The Winter Soldier movie looks strikingly similar from the neck… |
| 19-1198 |
CANVS Corporation v. Barbara M. Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force |
Federal Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law contract-law due-process government-contracts government-liability intellectual-property small-business small-business-innovation takings |
Can the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, an administrative panel, deprive a corporation of valuable intellectual property without due process… |
| 19-5299 |
Samuel Rivera Rosado v. Lucid Energy, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-protection design-theft due-process intellectual-property patent patent-infringement patent-registration standing takings |
FIRST QUESTION
Whether in respect of the Court Justices, the U.S. Supreme Court cannot allow a
company to steal a person's copyright ownership, desig… |
| 19-5179 |
Susan E. Pattishall v. Vinton G. Cerf, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech intellectual-property statute-of-limitations takings |
The Plaintiff-Appellee does not find the value of the Virginia statutory limitation law Va. Code § 8.01-243(B) holds true for intellectual property. I… |
| 19-5161 |
Antonio Vernon v. CBS Television Studios, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights contract-law due-process idea-submission implied-contract industry-standards intellectual-property |
Question 1: The 9th Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals (henceforth CoA9) has a long settled screenwriting case law regarding Desny claims o… |
| 19-46 |
United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B.V. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure generic-term generic-terms intellectual-property lanham-act online-business top-level-domain trademark trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration uspto |
Whether the addition by an online business of a generic top-level domain (".com") to an otherwise generic term can create a protectable trademark. |
| 18-1557 |
William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rico copyright-act copyright-infringement creative-rights due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property licensing plagiarism |
A. Whether the U.S. Copyright Act and Clause 17 U.S.C. 501, the Copyright Act Clause and the First Amendment of the U.S. Const., Art. 1, Sec. 8, equal… |
| 18-9089 |
Itoffee Gayle v. Home Box Office, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process fair-use federal-jurisdiction first-amendment intellectual-property motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing |
The plaintiff's intellectual property was featured in defendant's (HBO) series, Vinyl. Judge Jesse M. Furman of the New York Southern District granted… |
| 18-8613 |
Quincy Magee v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
antitrust business-disputes civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement copyright-protection corporate-infringement due-process employment-rights fraud intellectual-property licensing patent patent-infringement patent-ownership standing trade-secret |
Legislative Goals
Quincy Magee has ownership of Quincy Magee's Companies Properties and Names Renaissance Media Productions - Aesthetic Media Product… |
| 18-1233 |
Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc., fka Fossil, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-procedure intellectual-property lanham-act profits profits-award remedies statutory-interpretation trademark-infringement willful-infringement willfulness |
Whether, under section 35 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), willful infringement is a prerequisite for an award of an infringer's profits for a … |
| 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… |
| 18-956 |
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… |
| 18-877 |
Frederick L. Allen, et al. v. Roy A. Cooper, III, Governor of North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
14th-amendment article-i-power congress congressional-power constitutional-law copyright copyright-infringement copyright-remedy-clarification-act federal-power federal-remedies federal-statute intellectual-property sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity |
Whether Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity via the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act, Pub. L. No. 101-553, 104 Stat. 2749 (1990), in… |
| 18-728 |
Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement |
Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's "selection and arrangement" of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui… |
| 18-615 |
Bruce Munro, et al. v. Lucy Activewear Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split civil-procedure copyright copyright-law intellectual-property lanham-act physical-products preemption product-design standing trade-dress |
Does copyright preclude Lanham Act product design trade dress claims for physical products, and if so, under what circumstance(s)? |
| 18-6129 |
Arika Matelyan v. CD Baby Distribution Co. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-63 |
Steve K. Wilson Briggs v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
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