| 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 |
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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 |
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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… |