patent-examination

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-228 In Re Urvashi Bhagat 2022-09-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-immunity bad-faith damages federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus patent-examination patent-rights takings takings-claim 1. Whether the District Court abused discretion and obstructed justice in denying the existence of arguments and facts recited in the complaint refusi…
19-8094 Caleb S. Motupalli v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-112 america-invents-act enablement interdisciplinary-invention interdisciplinary-team patent-enablement patent-examination patent-specification pre-aia pro-se single-skilled-person waiver 35 U.S.C. §112 requires that the specification of a patent application describe the invention in such terms that those skilled in the art are enabled …
18-1285 Gilbert P. Hyatt, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law mandamus manual-of-patent-examining-procedure patent-act patent-and-trademark-office patent-appeal patent-appeal-rights patent-appeals patent-examination patent-examiner patent-office patent-office-procedure patent-prosecution statutory-interpretation steinmetz-v-allen Whether MPEP § 1207.04 violates patent applicants' statutory right of appeal following a second rejection.
18-1223 Mario Villena, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Amici (1) 35-usc-101 35-usc-102-103 administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-test judicial-review patent-eligibility patent-examination patent-trial-and-appeal-board preemption section-101 statutory-interpretation uspto well-understood-routine-conventional Is the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) (Title 5 U.S.C. § 706) somehow nonrelevant under Alice/Mayo, or does the Federal Circuit's refusal to addres…
18-1072 James J. Macor v. United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-102 35-usc-103 administrative-law analogous-art obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-examination patent-law prior-art statutory-interpretation In making rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious, what standard should be applied in determining whether prior art is "analogous," and, if the…
18-5186 Dominick Theresa v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-limitations claim-validity due-process judicial-review legal-principles patent patent-claims patent-examination pro-se pro-se-litigation standing The lower courts deprived the Pro Se, Petitioner of Due Process and the disregard to address the limitations within the patent Claims as well as the v…