| 25A884 |
CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-02-05 |
Application |
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federal-circuit patent-appeal patent-validity prior-art rule-36 unpatentability |
Question not identified. |
| 25-570 |
Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Synthego Corp. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
anticipation burden-of-proof enablement patent-validity printed-publications prior-art |
1. Should printed publications be presumed to be
enabling when a party challenging the validity
of issued patent claims asserts that a printed
publ… |
| 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… |
| 24-1281 |
Gesture Technology Partners, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-adjudication article-iii non-article-iii-forum patent-monopoly patent-validity property-rights |
Whether the PTO has the authority to conduct administrative adjudications regarding the validity of expired patents, and thereby extinguish private pr… |
| 24-1280 |
Gesture Technology Partners, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-adjudication article-iii non-jury-forum patent-monopoly patent-validity property-rights |
Whether the PTO has the authority to conduct administrative adjudications regarding the validity of expired patents, and thereby extinguish private pr… |
| 24A1215 |
MSN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
after-arising-technology enablement-doctrine federal-circuit genus-claim patent-law patent-validity |
Question not identified. |
| 24-866 |
Converter Manufacturing, LLC v. Tekni-Plex, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law burden-of-proof patent-enablement patent-validity prior-art statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the patent challenger always has
the burden of proving that the disclosures in an
asserted prior art patent or printed publication
are enab… |
| 24A208 |
ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-adjudication inter-partes-review jury-trial patent-validity public-rights seventh-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 24A207 |
ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-adjudication inter-partes-review jury-trial patent-validity public-rights seventh-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 23A883 |
Cellect, LLC v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-circuit obviousness-type-double-patenting patent-expiration patent-term-adjustment patent-term-extension patent-validity |
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. |
| 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… |
| 22-1001 |
NST Global, LLC, dba SB Tactical v. Sig Sauer Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent-construction patent-preamble patent-validity |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit's affirmance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision that results from the Board's sua sponte construction of a… |
| 22-819 |
Franz Wakefield, dba CoolTVNetwork.com v. Blackboard, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard magistrate-judge markman-test patent patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation |
35 U.S.C. § 282(a) provides that "[a] patent shall be presumed valid." This Court has ruled that when a court reviews validity of a patent, the presum… |
| 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… |
| 22-203 |
Apple Inc., et al. v. California Institute of Technology |
Federal Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-procedure administrative-process civil-procedure federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit erroneously extended
IPR estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) to all grounds
that reasonably could have been raised in the… |
| 21-1327 |
Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated |
Federal Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii article-three-standing inter-partes-review license-agreement medimmune patent-challenge patent-validity qualcomm-dispute standing |
This case presents the same question as Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Inc., No. 21-746 (U.S.) ("Apple I"), in which the Court recently called for the views o… |
| 21-746 |
Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) |
article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process inter-partes-review license-agreement patent patent-challenge patent-validity standing takings |
Whether a licensee has Article III standing to challenge the validity of a patent covered by a license agreement that covers multiple patents. |
| 21-540 |
Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso |
Indiana |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
claim-scope exclusive-jurisdiction federal-circuit federal-patent-law gunn-v-minton jurisdictional-split patent-jurisdiction patent-validity state-court-adjudication state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a dispute raises substantial issues of federal patent law when its resolution necessarily depends on patent-law determinations regarding claim… |
| 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… |
| 20-1700 |
Ultratec, Inc. v. CaptionCall, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
5th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-validity retroactivity |
1. Does retroactive application of the inter partes review process violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 20-1604 |
Biogen MA Inc. v. EMD Serono, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
|
anticipation claim-construction incentives medical-treatment method-of-treatment novelty patent patent-law patent-validity prior-art recombinant-protein |
Whether courts may disregard the express claim term "recombinant" so as to render a method-of-treatment patent anticipated—and thus invalid—in light o… |
| 20-1291 |
WPEM, LLC v. SOTI Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-282 35-usc-285 clear-and-convincing-evidence district-court-discretion exceptional-case patent-law patent-validity prior-art |
1. Does a patent's presumption of validity afforded by 35 U.S.C. §282 limit a district court's discretion to find a case exceptional under 35 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-779 |
Argentum Pharmaceuticals LLC v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-proceeding article-iii-standing article-three-standing fda-approval inter-partes-review joint-venture leahy-smith-america-invents-act patent-challenge patent-validity pharmaceutical-industry pharmaceutical-patent |
Did the Federal Circuit categorically and erroneously preclude redress for injured members of joint ventures in the pharmaceutical industry by only re… |
| 20-737 |
B/E Aerospace, Inc. v. C&D Zodiac, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure america-invents-act inter-partes-review obviousness patent-challenge patent-validity printed-publications prior-art statutory-interpretation |
In an inter partes review proceeding under 35 U.S.C. § 311(b), does the Board have authority to consider unpatentability on a ground of obviousness th… |
| 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… |
| 20-325 |
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… |
| 20-88 |
HZNP Finance Limited, et al. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-112 claim-construction consisting-essentially-of nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-act patent-claim patent-validity reasonable-certainty statutory-interpretation transitional-phrase |
Whether the "basic and novel properties" identified in connection with a patent claim's transitional phrase "consisting essentially of" must independe… |
| 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. |
| 19-1131 |
Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-112 claim-construction federal-circuit patent-claims patent-law patent-law-35-usc-112 patent-specification patent-validity statutory-interpretation written-description written-description-requirement |
Whether § 112 requires a patent's specification to contain a written description of all of the limitations of a patent's claims, not just a "substanti… |
| 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… |
| 19-1097 |
Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
aia burden-of-proof due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-validity retroactive-legislation retroactivity takings vested-rights |
Does the application of inter partes review to a patent that issued before the enactment of the AIA violate the Due Process Clause because it retroact… |
| 19-1073 |
Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-112 35-usc-282 clear-and-convincing-standard enablement inoperability non-enabled-claims patent-law patent-validity presumption-of-validity statutory-interpretation unpredictability |
I. In light of a patent's presumption of validity under 35 U.S.C. § 282 and the concomitant clear and convincing standard for proving invalidity, may … |
| 19-445 |
Neology, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process federal-circuit filing-date notice patent patent-claim patent-validity procedural-due-process validity written-description |
Whether, as a matter of law and procedural due process, a patent can be invalidated without notifying the patent owner about the specific invalidity c… |
| 19-337 |
Regents of the University of Minnesota v. LSI Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Granted |
Amici (3) |
administrative-proceeding civil-procedure federal-agency federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-validity sovereign-immunity state-university university |
Whether the inter partes review proceedings brought by private respondents against the University of Minnesota in this case are barred by sovereign im… |
| 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… |
| 19-120 |
IBG LLC, et al. v. Trading Technologies International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
america-invents-act covered-business-method federal-circuit federal-circuit-split patent-eligibility patent-review patent-validity statutory-interpretation technological-invention |
Whether a patent that does not satisfy the first prong of § 42.301(b)—that is, that does not recite a novel and non-obvious technological feature—clai… |
| 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,… |
| 18-1114 |
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… |
| 18-692 |
Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. UCB, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
35-usc-103 double-patenting federal-circuit graham-factors graham-v-john-deere invention-disclosure lead-compound-test obviousness patent-eligibility patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-double-patenting patent-validity prior-art |
1. This Court has long held that "no patent can issue for an invention actually covered by a former patent, especially to the same patentee." Miller v… |
| 18-590 |
Cave Consulting Group, LLC v. OptumInsight, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-language claim-scope judicial-construction lexicography-disavowal patent-claim-construction patent-scope patent-specification patent-validity public-notice specification specification-interpretation written-description |
Congress requires inventors seeking patent protection to specifically identify what they regard as their invention in a patent claim. The Patent Offic… |
| 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… |
| 18-468 |
SSL Services, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-325(d) administrative-law administrative-procedure estoppel inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office patent-review patent-validity predictability prior-art statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether courts may review an agency's ruling on whether the § 325(d) Multiple-Proceedings rule applies and bars an IPR's institution when (1) the a… |