| 25-853 |
United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
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. |
| 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 |
Whether the Alice two-step test for patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §101 improperly constrains patent protection for technological innovations in e… |
| 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 |
| 23A988 |
Return Mail, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law supreme-court-review |
Whether the Federal Circuit incorrectly applied the abstract-idea exception to patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §101 in a manner that undermines pat… |
| 23-796 |
Ficep Corporation v. Peddinghaus Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
|
abstract-idea alice-test automation fact-issues inventiveness manufacturing-process patent-eligibility subject-matter-eligibility technological-improvement technological-innovation |
Does a claim directed to patent-eligible subject matter (here, manufacturing) nevertheless become ineligible as 'abstract' if the process is improved … |
| 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 |
| 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 |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is 'directed to' a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two… |
| 21-1370 |
Spireon, Inc. v. Procon Analytics, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction fact-question federal-circuit judicial-exception patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility pleadings |
What is the appropriate standard for determining patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101? |
| 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 |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is 'directed to' a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two… |
| 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… |
| 21-1093 |
PersonalWeb Technologies LLC v. Google LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-eligibility patent-law technical-field |
How should courts determine whether a patent for a computer-implemented invention is patent-eligible because it 'improve[s] the functioning of the com… |
| 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 |
Whether a new and non-obvious 'dedicated electronic unit' with new hardware structures including a plurality of 'special function buttons' is a patent… |
| 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… |
| 20-1412 |
NetSoc, LLC v. Match Group, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
|
abstract-idea civil-rights computer-implemented-invention due-process free-speech patent patent-eligibility rating-system social-network standing takings technological-innovation |
Is the addition of a network computer implemented social network, with a novel and unconventional rating system, to a method of organizing human activ… |
| 20-7519 |
Angadbir Singh Salwan v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstract-idea administrative-law civil-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent patent-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings |
Whether the lower courts' rulings are tainted by corruption financed by China's Communist party, and whether the Supreme Court should reverse the CAFC… |
| 20-751 |
Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech
20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud |
Whether the state action of disbarment violates the First Amendment as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 20-604 |
InfoBionic, Inc. v. Cardionet, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit innovation longstanding-human-practice patent-eligibility patent-monopoly statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit has properly narrowed the scope of the abstract idea exception under 35 U.S.C. § 101 |
| 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 |
Does the Alice exception to patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 improperly cover inventions that improve another technology or technical field? |
| 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 |
May the Federal Circuit and Patent Office ignore this Court's seminal Cuno decision? |
| 19-1464 |
Christopher Primbas, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstract-idea alice-v-cls-bank claim-construction inventive-concept parker-v-flook patent-eligibility patent-office patent-prosecution prior-art |
Whether recitation in a patent claim of a combination of steps determined to be inventive over an idea is 'sufficient to ensure that the patent in pra… |
| 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… |
| 19-619 |
Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea computer-automated-method computer-automation computer-network data-analysis data-collection patent patent-eligibility patent-law standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether patent claims that recite only the abstract idea of collecting and analyzing data are patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice |
| 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 the claims at issue are directed to an abstract idea under 35 U.S.C. § 101 |
| 19-522 |
Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. IBG LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
|
abstract-idea civil-procedure computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-act patent-act-1952 patent-eligibility standing |
Whether computer-implemented inventions that provide useful user functionality but do not improve the basic functions of the computer itself are categ… |
| 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 |
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 abstr… |
| 19-353 |
Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. IBG LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
abstract-idea civil-procedure computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-act patent-act-1952 patent-eligibility standing |
Whether computer-implemented inventions that provide useful user functionality but do not improve the basic functions of the computer itself are categ… |
| 18-1199 |
InvestPic, LLC v. SAP America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Amici (8) |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-v-cls-bank computer-implemented-process federal-circuit inventive-concept judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility physical-realm preemption |
Whether the Federal Circuit's physical realm' test contravenes the Patent Act and Supreme Court precedent by categorically excluding otherwise patenta… |
| 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… |
| 18-415 |
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 |
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 jury based on the state o… |
| 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 |
Innovative-technological-architecture-for-online-media-streaming |