No. 19-1110

Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation

Lower Court: Federal Circuit
Docketed: 2020-03-10
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: 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
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2020-04-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state's sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional a federal patent venue statute applied to force the state sovereign to sue the in-state infringer in a federal court located in another state

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED The question presented is: Whether a state’s sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional a federal patent venue statute applied to force the state sovereign to sue the in-state infringer in a federal court located in another state.

Docket Entries

2020-04-20
Petition DENIED.
2020-04-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2020.
2020-03-26
Waiver of right of respondent Boston Scientific Corporation to respond filed.
2020-03-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 9, 2020)
2020-01-23
Application (19A813) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until March 6, 2020.
2020-01-21
Application (19A813) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from February 6, 2020 to March 6, 2020, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Attorneys

Board of Regents, The University of Texas System and Tissuegen, Inc.
Michael W. ShoreShore Chan Bragalone LLP, Petitioner
Michael W. ShoreShore Chan Bragalone LLP, Petitioner
Boston Scientific Corporation
Matthew McManus WolfArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Respondent
Matthew McManus WolfArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Respondent