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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5705 Michael Sampson v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process electric-vehicle federal-action government-misconduct patent patent-pending standing takings technology-dispute USPTO Will the Supreme Court seek truth for the sake of humanity and compel the U.S.D.C. (E.D. Texas) to make available the papers of case no. G122-CV-BY?
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 Whether the Federal Circuit's departures from Supreme Court precedent in applying the Alice/Mayo test have enabled the USPTO to violate the Administra…
21-118 Apple Inc. v. Optis Cellular Technology, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act mandamus-petition patent patent-review uspto Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office denying …
20-1261 Wi-LAN, Inc., et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer judicial-review patent patent-office principal-officer separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation uspto Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
19-1434 United States v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-29 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer inferior-officers patent patent-and-trademark-office principal-officer principal-officers standing uspto Whether administrative patent judges are principal officers under the Appointments Clause
19-46 United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B.V. Fourth Circuit 2019-07-08 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) civil-procedure generic-term generic-terms intellectual-property lanham-act online-business top-level-domain trademark trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration uspto Whether the addition by an online business of a generic top-level domain (.com) to an otherwise generic term can create a protectable trademark"
19-48 B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied bose disgorgement federal-circuit fraud fraud-standard lanham-act lanham-act-fraud patent rule-59-motion standard-of-review therasense trademark trademark-law uspto willfulness Whether the established precedent by the Federal Circuit for the determination of fraud on the USPTO should be adopted as the proper standard for all …
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 Rejection of patent claims under 35 U.S.C. § 101 without addressing each limitation separately and as an ordered combination, lack of substantial evid…
18-801 Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. NantKwest, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-12-21 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) 35-usc-145 administrative-law civil-action civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-act patent-application patent-law personnel-expenses standing statutory-interpretation uspto USPTO-litigation Whether the phrase '[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings' in 35 U.S.C. 145 encompasses the personnel expenses the USPTO incurs when its employees, in…
18-770 Webtrends, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-test claim-rejection federal-court patent patent-claims prior-art standing uspto Whether the USPTO or a Federal Court can declare 20 patent claims to be directed to an unpatentable abstract idea without carrying out the Alice two-p…
18-277 Urvashi Bhagat v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-09-04 Rehearing Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) ' '35-usc-101" ' 'administrative-procedure-act' ' 'funk-brothers" ' 'myriad-genetics" ' 'patent-eligibility" ' 'patent-system" 35-usc-101 administrative-procedure-act Funk-Brothers Myriad patent-eligibility USPTO Whether the Federal Circuit erred in finding petitioner's patent application claims unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101 due to conflicting standards of…