| 25-17 |
D R Burton Healthcare LLC v. Trudell Medical International Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-management civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment patent-litigation trial-timeline |
Whether a district court's order changing the time to trial in its case management order from at least 326 days to 146 days, and its time for completi… |
| 24A577 |
Koss Corporation v. Bose Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
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federal-circuit issue-estoppel patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-preclusion pleading-sufficiency |
Question not identified. |
| 24A8 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-circuit judicial-discretion patent-litigation vexatious-litigant |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit's Order is not void for vagueness. What is a "vexatious" litigant? Not defined and therefore has not been proven.
2. W… |
| 23A1107 |
Abbott Laboratories, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-client-privilege crime-fraud-exception mandamus patent-litigation sham-litigation work-product-privilege |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1005 |
Heat On-The-Fly, LLC, et al. v. Energy Heating, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court-discretion exceptional-case litigation-misconduct patent patent-litigation |
Must a district court consider litigation misconduct, or lack thereof, in determining whether a case is exceptional under 35 U.S.C. § 285? |
| 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… |
| 20-1211 |
SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. Adobe, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1404(a) civil-procedure discovery district-court-discretion federal-circuit-review mandamus patent patent-litigation transfer venue venue-transfer |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit wrongly overruled a district court judge's discretionary 1404(a) transfer decision when rational basis exists for all o… |
| 19-1132 |
Blackbird Tech LLC, dba Blackbird Technologies v. Health in Motion LLC, dba Inspire Fitness, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees case-by-case-analysis exceptional-case judicial-determination litigating-position litigation-discretion octane-fitness patent-act patent-law patent-litigation |
Can a court consider factors unrelated to the instant case in determining whether a particular case is exceptional, i.e., whether those outside factor… |
| 19-43 |
Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 alice-standard alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law patent-litigation rule-36-affirmance section-101 |
In Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International , 573 U.S. 208 (2014), this Court prescribed standards and a mode of analysis for determining patent eligibil… |
| 18-861 |
WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar |
35 U.S.C. §315(b) bars the Patent Office from instituting inter partes review proceedings to challenge a patent's validity "if the petition requesting… |
| 18-779 |
Power Integrations Inc. v. Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
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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… |