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25A884 CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2026-02-05 Application federal-circuit patent-appeal patent-validity prior-art rule-36 unpatentability Question not identified.
25A876 Jernice Hamilton, aka Garnaris Hamilton v. United States Federal Circuit 2026-02-04 Application disability-retirement fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment military-records pro-se subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
25A713 Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Unified Patents, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-12-18 Application america-invents-act informational-right patent-review real-parties-interest standing statutory-interpretation Whether a patent owner has a statutory right to know the identity of all real parties in interest in an inter partes review petition under the America…
25-659 Michael L. Levinson v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2025-12-08 Denied administrative-law constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias merit-systems-protection-board substantial-evidence A. Whether the clandestine replacement of Jewish Michael Levinson 's initial Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ ") Hearing Officer with a Muslim ALF was…
25-6298 Peter Joseph Polinski v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied constitutional-injury federal-claims-court fifth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tucker-act 1. Whether the United States Court of Federal Claims erred in dismissing Polinski v. United States, Case No. 24-1810, for lack of subject matter juris…
25A502 Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-03 Application bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge equal-protection judicial-review sovereign-immunity veterans-benefits Whether the Veterans' Judicial Review Act precludes federal district courts from hearing constitutional challenges to federal statutes governing veter…
25-5736 In Re Ahmad Aljindi 2025-09-25 Dismissed constitutional-due-process federal-circuit judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief obstruction-of-justice Whether the Federal Circuit and lower courts systematically violated constitutional due process and judicial integrity through coordinated judicial mi…
25A233 Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Synthego Corp. Federal Circuit 2025-08-28 Presumed Complete biotechnology crispr federal-circuit patent-enablement prior-art research-and-development Whether the Federal Circuit's presumption of enablement for prior art publications in unpredictable technological fields improperly undermines patent …
25-5461 Gary Eugene Maddox, II v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-08-25 Rehearing clerk-obstruction document-misappropriation fraud-upon-court jurisdictional-challenge right-to-petition supreme-court-docket Did National Supreme Court clerk Danny Bickel violate Maddox's right to petition the Government by committing clerk obstruction and fraud upon the cou…
25-144 Thomas D. Foster, APC v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2025-08-06 Denied administrative-procedure constitutional-vagueness lanham-act statutory-interpretation trademark-application trademark-law Whether the Federal Circuit improperly considered post-filing government developments to refuse a trademark application and whether Section 2(a)'s pro…
25A149 Julien P. Champagne v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete administrative-law compensation-benefits pension-benefits statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-benefits Whether a VA regulation requiring the agency to award the greater benefit to veterans unless they specifically elect the lesser benefit creates a mand…
25A86 Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2025-07-22 Presumed Complete article-iii due-process judicial-review separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation whistleblower-protection The petition for a writ of certiorari will present three questions: 1. Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36(a) affirmances without opinion in Merit System…
24-7455 Garland E. Williams v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied appellate-review constitutional-injury due-process frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal statute precludes procedural redress of a timely invoked constitutional injury, and whether a district court's dismissal of a compla…
24-5983 Trevor Spencer Taylor v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-11-18 Denied administrative-law evidence-tampering fruit-of-poisonous-tree judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation veterans-claims Whether the CAVC and CAFC improperly dismissed allegations of evidence tampering and government misconduct in a veterans' disability claim
24-443 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-10-22 Denied administrative-procedure federal-circuit filing-date mandamus merit-systems-protection-board office-of-special-counsel Whether the Federal Circuit erred in failing to recognize the correct filing date and must correct case procedures related to MSPB and OSC proceedings
24A332 Martin Akerman v. United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Federal Circuit 2024-10-07 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure civil-service due-process first-amendment judicial-review petition-rights Whether the First Amendment and due process rights of a petitioner are violated when a federal appellate court clerk improperly recharacterizes legal …
24A303 Arbor Global Strategies, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-09-30 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act agency-adjudication inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-trial-and-appeal-board separation-of-powers Whether the Administrative Procedure Act prohibits a Patent Trial and Appeal Board panel from both instituting and deciding the merits of an inter par…
24A2 Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-03 Presumed Complete appellate-review federal-circuit judicial-sanction pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Federal Circuit improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's sanction order against pro se litigants
23-1142 Tarun Surti v. Fleet Engineers, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied attorney-fees cease-and-desist compensation doctrine-of-equivalents non-infringement patent-compensation patent-rights tortious-interference Whether the Court erred in denying proper compensation, including 'Cease and Desist order', requested by the patentee
23A685 Evan H. Nordby v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete federal-circuit judicial-review notice-of-appeal patent-law supreme-court-rule time-extension Whether a patent applicant may seek judicial review of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision after failing to timely file a notice of appeal
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 Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the scope of patent infringement claims and remedies for a mudflap design patent un…
23-543 Solena Y. Hampton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied 38-usc-7104 38-usc-7292 administrative-law chenery-doctrine fact-finding implicit-denial judicial-review statutory-interpretation va-benefits veterans-affairs veterans-claims When the VA fails to adjudicate a claim for benefits, may a reviewing Court find that the VA meant to implicitly deny the claim, without running afoul…
23-494 MacNeil IP LLC v. Yita LLC Federal Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied administrative-law agency-deference appellate-procedure fact-finding judicial-review patent patent-law remand standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit erred in substituting its own findings of fact for those of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board instead of remanding as requ…
23-5543 Ahmad Jamaleddin Aljindi v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied constitutional-violation deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process federal-courts forgery hate-crimes judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice retaliation un-charter Did the United States Federal Government violate the United States Constitution and the Charter of the United Nations when the corrupt Chief Judge of …
23-5179 Arnes Becirovic v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied appeals-court certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
22-7817 Garland E. Williams v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process internal-revenue-service jurisdictional-challenge standing statutory-interpretation takings takings-clause tax tax-refund Whether claimed pursuant 28 U.S.C. § 1491 (a) (1) United States Constitutional Article II, Section 2, Amendment J, due-process, takings, 26-usc-6402
22-1101 William Tyrone Cunningham v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied due-process equal-protection federal-employment national-labor-relations-act probationary-period veterans-preference Petitioner's 5th and 14th Amendment rights violation
22-7490 Wendell W. Phillips v. United States Court of Federal Claims Federal Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied 12b1-motion abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process federal-circuit illegal-exaction just-compensation legislative-enactments mandamus-jurisdiction rule-10 substantive-private-rights Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction to rule on a petition for a writ of mandamus against a lower court…
22-7472 Raj K. Patel v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied 14th-amendment big-tucker-act bounty-clause civil-rights contract-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion patel-v-united-states poindexter-v-greenhow religious-liberty whether-the-judiciary-must-reverse-and-allow-trial-of-bounty-clause-contract
22-7473 In Re Raj K. Patel 2023-05-05 Denied cares-act civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims-court federal-courts mandamus ordered-liberty standing tucker-act Whether the United States Court of Federal Claims abused its discretion in interpreting its own filing bar and denying the complaint
22-845 Robert Thornton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference due-process duty-to-assist judicial-notice judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the presumption of regularity violates due process
22-774 Adam Delgado v. Department of Justice Federal Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied breach-of-contract false-documentation foia government-liability official-misconduct perjury Whether the Federal government can breach a contract without justification and subsequently submit allegedly false documentation, evidence, and affida…
22-6405 David Lee Smith, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Mary Julia Hook v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-taking poverty sanctions takings Whether the Federal Circuit grossly abused its discretion in dismissing an appeal as frivolous
22-544 Innovation Sciences, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied 35-usc-102 anticipation anticipatory-reference clear-and-convincing clear-and-convincing-evidence invention patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity prior-art Whether an inference that a device that could have existed before the invention thereof by an inventor is properly treated as an anticipatory referenc…
22-5999 Enrique M. Flores-Vazquez v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied administrative-law appeals-process due-process evidence evidence-review judicial-mandate judicial-review veterans-affairs Authority-to-disregard-mandates
22-259 Lewis B. Jones v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied armed-forces claim-accrual disability-rating medical-technology military-service retirement-pay statute-of-limitations tucker-act veterans-benefits Whether a cause of action for retirement pay can accrue and for the statute of limitations to run before a service member receives a disability rating…
22-5122 Faye Rennell Hobson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-circuit merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Whistleblower By Proxy case
21-1150 Sharon Finizie, et al. v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure due-process factual-findings federal-circuit judicial-review legal-misapplication merit-systems-protection-board standard-of-review Did the decisions/opinions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Merit Systems Protection Board constitute erroneous f…
21-1036 Gamon Plus, Inc. v. Campbell Soup Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause arthrex-precedent federal-circuit judicial-remand patent-law patent-review rehearing-petition remand separation-of-powers Whether the Court should vacate the judgment below and remand for further proceedings in light of Arthrex
21-350 Infineum USA L.P. v. Chevron Oronite Company LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-09-07 GVR administrative-review appointments-clause certiorari-review federal-circuit federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-41 final-written-decision judicial-mandate mandate patent-proceedings united-states-v-arthrex Whether this Court should vacate the judgment below in view of its recent decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., and remand so that the United St…
21-245 Pyrotechnic Specialties, Inc. v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense Federal Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure contract-appeals due-process right-for-any-reason standard-of-review Is a litigant entitled to have the correct standard of law applied by the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals or does a 'right for any reason' do…
21-170 Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied 35-usc-112 35-usc-112f claim-construction federal-circuit indefiniteness nautilus-standard nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-law statutory-interpretation Whether a patent claim may be invalidated for indefiniteness
20-8464 Alberto Solar-Somohano v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied appointment-clause article-i congressional-intent constitutional constitutional-challenge enrolled-bill enrolled-bill-doctrine field-v-clark judicial-review patent patent-trademark-judges Whether Arthrex a hoax does not control be foreclosed from deciding appointment clause problem instead is Field v. Clark 143 US 649 (1892) that contro…
20-8107 Gregory Turner v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination federal-employment federal-government labor-investigation merit-system merit-system-protection-board veterans-preference Did the petitioner seek to get appeal heard by the Veteran's Employment and Training Service of U.S. Department of Labor
20-6126 Edward Jones v. Candace Edward, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied 35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in its interpretation and application of 35 U.S.C. § 101 in this case
20-532 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied claim-preclusion federal-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings patent patent-infringement perjury pro-se-plaintiff sanctions Claim-preclusion-issue
20-5713 Jean Dufort Baptichon v. United States, et al. District of Columbia 2020-09-17 Denied appellate-review counsel-rights district-court-ruling evidentiary-rulings frivolousness frivolousness-standard in-forma-pauperis procedural-discretion procedural-rulings reconsideration-amendment Question not identified
19-1435 C. Douglass Thomas v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied alice-mayo-framework alice-v-cls-bank claim-limitations computer-technology diehr-v-diamond inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus nonobviousness patent-eligibility software-innovation software-patents Whether software innovations implemented on a general purpose computer are patent-eligible
19-1430 Richard Polidi v. Michelle K. Lee, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied absolute-immunity brady-v-maryland civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ethics-prosecution exculpatory-evidence federal-circuit-jurisdiction fifth-amendment immunity qualified-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Amendment provides a remedy for ethics violations
19-1419 Michael A. Henry-Bey v. Hector Castro, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied appeals appellate-procedure arbitration civil-procedure court-transfer due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review pro-se-litigant standing subject-matter-jurisdiction transfer Whether the court had federal question jurisdiction to hear the petitioner's appeal, and if not, should the court have transferred the appeal to the c…
19-8167 Charles Talbert v. Blanche Carney, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment just-compensation patent takings-clause Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not require th…
19-1073 Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied 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 Whether patent claims that cover a class may be invalidated as non-enabled under 35 U.S.C. § 112 based on a finding of high unpredictability in the ar…
19-493 James J. Maksimuk v. Connor Sport Court International, LLC Federal Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied cafc corporate-representation court-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause legal-counsel legal-representation overturning-decisions supreme-court-rulings trademark-cancellation trademark-law Did the CAFC, District Court, 10th Cir., TTAB orders and judgments and referenced Supreme Court rulings—that required corporations to be represented b…
19-324 Technology Properties Limited LLC, et al. v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied civil-procedure due-process standing supreme-court-precedent the-patent-act federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law prosecution-history-disclaimer separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's development and application of the doctrine of 'prosecution history disclaimer' i…
18-1274 In Re Urvashi Bhagat 2019-04-04 Denied 35-usc-101 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act bilski-v-kappos federal-circuit-discretion graham-v-deere graham-v-john-deere judicial-discretion patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent uspto-discretion Whether the USPTO abused its discretion by refusing to allow claims that passed every requirement of Title 35 by insisting on extra-statutory requirem…
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…
25A474 Michael Mallonee v. Department of the Interior Federal Circuit Application disability filing-requirements financial-hardship in-forma-pauperis pro-se supreme-court Whether a pro se litigant with limited income and disability can obtain an extension of time and partial relief from Supreme Court filing requirements…