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25-896 Michael J. House v. General Electric Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent-infringement seventh-amendment trial-by-jury 1. "Whether" our Supreme Court will allow Plaintiff House their 7th Amendment rights of trial by jury shall be preserved by our U.S. Constitution per …
25A659 United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. Federal Circuit 2025-12-04 Application abstract-idea alice-test mobile-technology patent-eligibility patent-infringement section-101 Question not identified.
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…
25-225 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…
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…
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…
24-1058 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.
24-889 Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-02-19 Granted CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (3) carve-out generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act induced-infringement patent-infringement skinny-label 1. When a generic drug label fully carves out a patented use, are allegations that the generic drugmaker calls its product a "generic version" and cit…
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…
24A652 Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete generic-drug hatch-waxman-act induced-infringement patent-infringement section-viii skinny-label Question not identified.
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…
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…
23-1052 Seirus Innovative Accessories, Inc. v. Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied Response Waived comparison-prior-art design-patent function functional-limitations infringement ornamental ornamental-design patent-infringement prior-art same-article (1) Whether function must be disregarded in defining the scope of comparison prior art relevant to design patent infringement; and (2) Whether compar…
23-7016 Gregory Chatten Stockman v. California California 2024-03-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-interpretation patent-infringement patent-licensing standing state-court-review 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…
23A565 Liquidia Technologies, Inc. v. United Therapeutics Corporation Federal Circuit 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete administrative-preclusion biotechnology-patents inter-partes-review issue-estoppel patent-infringement patent-validity Question not identified.
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.
23-607 Morris S. Glover v. Daniel E. Cohen, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied bias case-document court-filing due-process legal-document patent-infringement petition prejudice pro-se scotus summary-judgment Question not identified.
23-574 Traxcell Technologies, LLC v. Sprint Communications Company LP, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-285 attorney-fees attorneys-fees claim-baselessness exceptional-case final-ruling litigation-conduct magistrate-ruling patent-infringement 1. Where petitioner's patent infringement claims were not finally rejected until the district court judge approved the Magistrate Judge's ruling dispo…
23-230 Personalized Media Communication, LLC v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response Waived docket-management due-process equitable-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-office patent-prosecution patent-validity prosecution-laches statutory-deadlines 1. Whether prosecution laches can be based on an applicant's prosecution of a patent application in compliance with the PTO's docket-management decisi…
22-1066 CareDx Inc., et al. v. Natera, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 medical-diagnostics method-patent natural-phenomenon patent-eligibility patent-infringement prior-art scientific-innovation section-101 statutory-interpretation Congress has provided that any "new and useful process" is eligible for patent protection, and that "any new and useful improvement thereof" is also e…
22-544 Innovation Sciences, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-102 anticipation anticipatory-reference clear-and-convincing clear-and-convincing-evidence invention patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity prior-art In Washburn & Moen Mfg. Co. v. Beat 'Em All Barbed-Wire Co., 143 U.S. 275 (1892) (also known as "Barbed Wire Patent"), the Court found the burden to e…
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…
22-53 Aaron G. Filler, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Response Waived assignment-of-claims assignment-of-claims-act civil-procedure fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation patent patent-infringement patent-rights takings For a Patent infringed by the United States, where Patent rights are divided between two related parties – one having the right to sue and the other h…
22-37 Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (3) active-inducement fda-approval generic-drug generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act inducement-doctrine patent-infringement skinny-label If a generic drug's FDA-approved label carves out all of the language that the brand manufacturer has identified as covering its patented uses, can th…
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…
21-406 Impax Laboratories, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Amici (1) antitrust antitrust-law competition-law patent patent-infringement patent-litigation patent-settlement patent-strength patent-validity reverse-payment Because settlement agreements that permit a "generic manufacturer to enter [a] patentee's market prior to the patent's expiration" increase competitio…
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 …
20-1545 TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 Federal Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied 35-usc-271 claim-construction industry-standard infringement judicial-precedent literal-infringement patent patent-infringement statutory-interpretation This Court's precedent in Markman requires that the construction of a patent "is exclusively within the province of the court." Markman v. Westview In…
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 …
20-1284 Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso Federal Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention claim-construction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-abstention federal-jurisdiction patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-law state-court-proceedings Whether a federal court with exclusive jurisdiction over a claim may abstain in favor of a state court with no jurisdiction over that claim.
20-1289 NetScout Systems, Inc., et al. v. Packet Intelligence LLC Federal Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 enhanced-damages good-faith-defenses patent-eligibility patent-infringement section-101 technological-subject-matter treble-damages willful-infringement Whether a finding of willful infringement justifying treble damages may be based solely on the defendant's conduct following the filing of the suit. …
20-623 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdictional-dispute patent patent-infringement pro-se-litigant standing takings writ-of-certiorari 1. Question #1: In this US patent litigation, whether Petitioner, a Pro Se patentee who is sole named inventor of valuable US ticketing method, appara…
20-631 Hologic, Inc., et al. v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied administrative-proceedings america-invents-act assignor-estoppel collateral-estoppel infringement-litigation patent-infringement patent-office patent-validity The question presented is whether an assignor of a patent may circumvent the doctrine of assignor estoppel by challenging the validity of the assigned…
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…
20-440 Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (2) 35-usc-282 assignor-estoppel due-process judicial-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-law statutory-interpretation In the Patent Act, Congress established that invalidity is a "defense[] in any action involving the validity or infringement of a patent." 35 U.S.C. §…
20-362 Cochlear Corporation, et al. v. Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-284 apportionment book-of-wisdom circuit-split damages damages-calculation hypothetical-negotiation patent-infringement reasonable-royalty sinclair-refining 1. Whether the Federal Circuit has misapplied the "book of wisdom" set forth in Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co., 289 U.S. 689 (…
20-325 Whitserve LLC v. Donuts Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied 35-usc-101 commercial-success fact-weighing patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-validity presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 statutory-presumption If a patentee makes factual assertions that its claimed invention is directed to patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101, including asser…
19-1269 TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Amici (5) antitrust equitable-relief frand frand-commitment jury-trial patent patent-infringement patent-licensing seventh-amendment specific-performance standard-essential-patents standard-setting-organizations Whether a patent owner required to license its standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms has a Seventh Amendment rig…
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…
19-1173 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…
19-1147 Willowood, LLC, et al. v. Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-U.S.C.-271(g) 35-usc-271 copyright-claims federal-circuit-review limelight-networks-v-akamai monopoly patent-infringement pesticide-labels single-entity-rule statutory-interpretation This Petition presents two questions for review: 1. Whether lability for patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. §271(g) requires that all steps of a pat…
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…
19-1110 Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court federal-patent-statute federal-statute patent-infringement patent-venue personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-rights state-rights state-sovereign state-sovereignty Whether a state's sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional…
19-1061 Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Ltd., et al. v. Eli Lilly and Company Federal Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (2) claim-amendment doctrine-of-equivalents festo-corp-v-shoketsu festo-corp-v-shoketsu-kinzoku-kogyo-kabushiki-co patent-claim patent-infringement patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-equivalents patent-prosecution prosecution-history-estoppel tangential-exception Under patent law's "doctrine of equivalents," a patent holder can allege infringement even when the defendant does not literally practice every elemen…
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…
19-1012 General Electric Company v. Raytheon Technologies Corporation, fka United Technologies Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Amici (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights competition competitive-harm competitor-standing due-process inter-partes-review judicial-precedent patent patent-infringement patent-law standing Whether competitive harm alone suffices to confer Article III standing to appeal an IPR determination, or whether an appellant must also show concrete…
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 …
19-6326 Michael K. Verble v. City of San Diego, California Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights computer-software constitutional-rights copyright discretionary-process due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection patent patent-infringement standing state-review takings trade-secret volunteer-firefighter Pub L 100-352 102.5 Public Safety Threat to the $ Cmeut With Computerization Analysis Cincuits Built with cincutry 9 inthe A5 a volume tegnety Propert…
19-450 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., et al. v. Perrigo Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review budinich-v-becton-dickinson compensatory-damages enhanced-damages exceptional-case jury-verdict merits-ruling patent-infringement punitive-enhancement reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing The Patent Act expressly provides for compensatory damages. 35 U.S.C. § 284. When the issues of patent infringement and compensatory damages are tri…
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…
19-5299 Samuel Rivera Rosado v. Lucid Energy, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied 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…
19-101 Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review The question presented is whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, "unrebutted,…
18-1530 Enplas Display Device Corporation v. Seoul Semiconductor Company, Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-271(b) extraterritoriality global-tech global-tech-appliances induced-infringement inducement microsoft-v-att patent-infringement presumption-against presumption-against-extraterritoriality rjr-nabisco statutory-interpretation Whether, in view of the presumption against extraterritoriality, a foreign defendant's foreign sales of components to a foreign company qualifies as i…
18-1508 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied claim-construction de-novo-review due-process JMOL jury-fact-finding jury-fact-findings jury-findings jury-trial patent-infringement procedural-due-process remand seventh-amendment standard-of-review teva-v-sandoz 1. Where the district court properly instructed the jury to give a claim limitation its "plain and ordinary meaning as viewed from the perspective of …
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.
18-1448 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…
18-8930 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 …
18-1275 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-04-05 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-fraud-on-the-court civil-rights discovery due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct patent patent-infringement sanctions standing summary-judgment As pointed out by District Judge J. Owen Forrester in Sklar v. Clough, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 49248 (N.D. Ga. July 6, 2007), "a district court may cons…
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…
18-1114 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…
18-1027 Superior Communications, Inc. v. Voltstar Technologies, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-02-06 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (4) 35-usc-314 35-usc-314d 35-usc-315 35-usc-315b administrative-law appealability inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr patent-infringement patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab statutory-interpretation time-bar voluntary-dismissal 1. Whether, under § 314(d), a party may appeal the PTAB's application of § 315(b)'s time-bar provision made during its decision to institute IPR. 2. …
18-7435 James Arthur Biggins v. Carl C. Danberg, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied IFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction patent patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-law standing takings Question not identified.
18-916 Thryv, Inc., fka Dex Media, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-15 Judgment Issued Amici (18)Relisted (3) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 america-invents-act cuozzo inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab section-315b time-bar wi-fi-one 1. Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) permits appeal of the PTAB's decision to institute an inter partes review upon finding that § 315(b)'s time bar did not …
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…
18-779 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…
18-600 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…
18-276 Richard J. Baker v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-8-clause-8 compensation constitutional-interpretation contract due-process government-compensation government-obligation invention-security judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings patent-infringement patent-rights property-protection property-rights takings trial Whether under rights given by Congress and contained in U.S. Constitution. Article I Section 8. Clause 8 to all U.S. patent holders for disclosure of …
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…
18-52 Paul Andrew Leitner-Wise v. LWRC International, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-100 35-usc-281 patent-assignment patent-fraud patent-infringement patent-law patent-royalties patent-standing patent-uniformity The plain language of 35 U.S.C. § 100 (d) identifies a "patentee" as "to whom the patent was issued but also the successors in title to the patentee."…
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…