judicial-exceptions
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-505 | Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response Waived | judicial-exceptions machine-learning patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption section-101 | 1. Whether the Federal Circuit's approach to patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 flouts this Court's instruction to consider preemption, as discu… |
| 23-7730 | Thomas Richardson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-exceptions legal-precedent standing supreme-court-authority | From whence does the Supreme Court's authority to create exceptions to the plain text of the Constitution derive? Did the decisions in New York v. Fe… |
| 23-401 | Michael Carey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | circuit-conflict federal-courts judge-made-exceptions judicial-exceptions legal-remedy state-courts statutory-interpretation suppression-provisions wiretap-act | Whether courts lack power to fashion judge-made exceptions to the exceptionless suppression provisions of the Wiretap Act. | |
| 21-1281 | Interactive Wearables, LLC v. Polar Electro Oy, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction enablement judicial-exceptions legal-standard patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 two-step-framework | The patents-in-suit are directed to an electronic hardware device comprising a content player/remote-control combination having numerous concretely-re… |
| 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… |
| 20-891 | American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | CVSGAmici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | 35-usc-101 alice-v-cls claim-construction judicial-exception judicial-exceptions patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-law standard-of-review two-step-framework | American Axle invented a new process for making a new, useful, and tangible thing – a quieter automobile driveshaft. It is the type of invention that … |
| 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 … |
| 18-1088 | Kamran Asghari-Kamrani, et al. v. United Services Automobile Association | Federal Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 constitutional-grant constitutional-power judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-test | For over 70 years, the Court has used a common law patent eligibility test that deviates from the language and plain meaning of the patent eligibility… |