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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-853 | United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived | abstract-idea alice-framework federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 technological-process | Congress has authorized inventors to patent "any new and useful process," or "any new and useful improvement thereof." 35 U.S.C. § 101. This Court has… |
| 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. | |
| 25-505 | 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… |
| 24A517 | Broadband iTV, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Presumed Complete | abstract-idea alice-test electronic-program-guide patent-eligibility section-101 software-patent | Question not identified. | |
| 24A497 | Audio Evolution Diagnostics, Inc. v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Presumed Complete | alice-doctrine federal-circuit mayo-standard patent-eligibility section-101 technological-innovation | Question not identified. | |
| 24A485 | Impact Engine, Inc. v. Google LLC | Federal Circuit | 2024-11-15 | Presumed Complete | alice-framework means-plus-function patent-claim patent-eligibility section-101 section-112 | Whether the specific structure defining the scope of a means-plus-function patent claim under 35 U.S.C. § 112(f) must be considered when resolving whe… | |
| 24-47 | Return Mail, Inc. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corporation-v-cls-bank innovation judicial-interpretation patent patent-eligibility patent-law return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service section-101 | Whether the claimed invention is ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to 35 U.S.C. §101. | |
| 23-1184 | Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 alice alice-test computer-network distributed-computing functional-claiming patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 specificity-of-description | 1. Whether claims drawn to solving specific problems restricting the usefulness of an existing computer-network technology recite patent-eligible subj… |
| 23-498 | Realtime Data LLC, dba IXO v. Fortinet, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea computer-functioning data-compression federal-circuit patent patent-claims patent-eligibility section-101 standing | Whether the claimed inventions are ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to Section 101. |
| 23A95 | ChromaDex, Inc., et al. v. Elysium Health, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2023-08-01 | Presumed Complete | composition-of-matter isolated-natural-substance markedly-different-characteristics myriad-genetics patent-eligibility section-101 | 1. This case presents important questions about the framework for determining patent eligibility. In particular, the case concerns whether composition… | |
| 22-1220 | Jeffrey A. Killian v. Katherine K. Vidal, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-doctrine alice-mayo-test due-process federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 uspto | I. Have the numerous departures of the Supreme Court's Alice/Mayo jurisprudence by the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit (hereinafter "the Feder… |
| 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… |
| 22-822 | Avery Dennison Corporation v. ADASA Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2023-03-01 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 binary-encoding most-significant-bits patent-claim patent-eligibility rfid rfid-technology section-101 serial-number | Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) tags are encoded with lengthy serial numbers that uniquely identify particular items. The patent at issue… |
| 21-1554 | Worlds Inc. v. Activision Blizzard Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea filtering patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility section-101 software-invention summary-judgment well-known-routine-conventional | In the mid-1990s, petitioner Worlds invented computer software with protocols that allowed an increased number of players to access a three-dimensiona… |
| 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… |
| 21-1228 | Ameranth, Inc. v. Olo, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | 35-usc-101 alice-framework alice-two-step claim-construction judicial-exception patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-ineligible-concept question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 | This computer-based patent infringement case presents the same questions pending before the Court in American Axle & Mfg, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC,… | |
| 21-1106 | Thaddeus Gabara v. Facebook, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2022-02-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea data-structure patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption prior-art section-101 two-step-framework | What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is "directed to" a patent-ineligible concept under step 1 of the Court's two-s… |
| 21-1056 | Universal Secure Registry LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Amici (2) | 35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test federal-circuit patent-act patent-eligibility section-101 specificity unconventionality unexpected-results | Does patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 require "specificity," "unexpected results" and "unconventionality," in conflict with the Patent Act and… |
| 21-812 | WhitServe LLC v. Dropbox, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 enablement patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 section-101 technological-improvement | 1. If a patentee makes factual assertions and provides supporting evidence that its claimed invention is directed to patent-eligible subject matter un… |
| 21-6050 | James Bongiorno v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abstract-idea cantrell-v-wallick electronic-unit functional-improvement hardware-structures machine machine-patent patent-eligibility section-101 | Section 101 of the Patent Act provides that "[w]hoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter… |
| 21-457 | ENCO Systems, Inc. v. DaVincia, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit patent patent-claim patent-eligibility patent-protection patent-system section-101 | What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is directed to a patent-ineligible concept when determining whether an inventi… |
| 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… |
| 20-1760 | iLife Technologies, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | 35-usc-101 claim-interpretation judicial-framework legal-standard patent patent-claim patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standard | The questions presented are the same as those presented in the petition for a writ of certiorari filed in connection with American Axle & Manufacturin… | |
| 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. … |
| 20-892 | Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Illumina, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | and analyzing the separated DNA for diagnostic pu using well-known laboratory techniques is unpaten 35-usc-101 abstract-ideas diagnostic diagnostic-method dna dna-analysis dna-fragments laboratory-techniques myriad-decision myriad-doctrine natural-phenomena patent patent-eligibility section-101 | Whether a patent that claims nothing more than a method for separating smaller DNA fragments from larger ones, and analyzing the separated DNA for dia… |
| 20-453 | Consumer 2.0, Inc., dba Rently v. Tenant Turner, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 alice-test conventional-features graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias patent-eligibility preemption section-101 section-103 | 1) Whether preemption is a threshold and defining consideration that the lower courts must consider in determining whether a claimed invention is dire… |
| 20-439 | Mantissa Corporation v. Ondot Systems, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-exception fact-finding patent-eligibility pre-emption section-101 technical-field | 1) Has this Court's Alice exception to patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 been improperly expanded to cover computer-implemented inventions that… | |
| 20-32 | Steve Morsa v. Andre Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea claims-analysis federal-circuit patent patent-eligibility patent-office preemption section-101 undue-preemption | This Court has held that any machine or process is eligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101, subject only to narrow exceptions where the p… |
| 19-1299 | The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Techtronic Industries Co., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-05-19 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-v-cls claim-construction federal-circuit machine-invention machine-or-transformation patent patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption section-101 | Whether the Federal Circuit improperly expanded § 101's narrow implicit exceptions by failing to properly assess Chamberlain's claims "as a whole," wh… |
| 19-1103 | INO Therapeutics LLC, et al. v. Praxair Distribution Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 drug-administration due-process eligibility innovation medical-research medical-treatment method-of-treatment patent patent-eligibility patient-outcomes personalized-medicine section-101 selective-treatment | Whether a method of treatment that requires doctors to selectively administer a drug to certain patients and not others to enhance patient outcomes is… |
| 19-597 | Morris Reese v. Sprint Nextel Corporation, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit mayo-v-prometheus patent-eligibility patent-ineligible-concept patent-law section-101 | Whether this case provides an appropriate vehicle for this Court to state with clarity and certainty the definition of an "abstract idea" under 35 U.S… |
| 19-521 | ChargePoint, Inc. v. SemaConnect, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Amici (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-v-cls-bank diamond-v-diehr innovation judicial-interpretation machine-or-process patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 | 1. Whether a patent claim to a new and useful improvement to a machine or process may be patent eligible even when it "involves" or incorporates an ab… |
| 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… |
| 18A1325 | Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Presumed Complete | alice-corp claim-construction federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 18-817 | Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) | generic-drugs inventive-concept medical-patent medical-treatment method-of-treatment natural-law patent-eligibility routine-and-conventional section-101 | Whether patents that claim a method of medically treating a patient automatically satisfy Section 101 of the Patent Act, even if they apply a natural … |
| 18-415 | HP Inc., fka Hewlett-Packard Company v. Steven E. Berkheimer | Federal Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework civil-procedure claim-construction inventive-concept judicial-exception patent patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standing | The question presented is whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court based on the scope of the claims or a question of fact for the… |
| 18-124 | Two-Way Media Ltd. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea factual-questions innovation-specificity motion-to-dismiss patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-under-35-usc-101 patent-specification section-101 specificity-requirement technological-architecture | 1. In order to clear the threshold eligibility determination under 35 U.S.C. § 101, must a patent include in its claims a sufficient level of specific… |