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22-925 Fall Line Patents, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC, fka Unified Patents, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) acting-official acting-officials agency-delegation federal-vacancies-reform-act inter-partes-review patent-and-trademark-office patent-trial-and-appeal-board presidentially-appointed-senate-confirmed succession-plan Whether the Commissioner for Patents' exercise of the Director's authority pursuant to an internal agency delegation violated the Federal Vacancies Re…
22-639 Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Amici (3) acting-official agency-delegation director-review-authority federal-vacancies-reform-act inter-partes-review patent-and-trademark-office standing succession-plan Whether the Commissioner for Patents' exercise of the Director's authority pursuant to an internal agency delegation violated the Federal Vacancies Re…
20-84 Teresita A. Canuto v. Troy Alexander, et al. District of Columbia 2020-07-28 Denied Response Waived acting-official civil-procedure due-process foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act immunity-doctrine individual-liability jurisdictional-challenge official-capacity standing statutory-interpretation Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act extends to an individual for acts taken in the individual's fo…
18-544 Teresita A. Canuto v. Department of Defense, et al. District of Columbia 2018-10-25 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1604 28-usc-1605 acting-official foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity foreign-state government-liability individual-capacity individual-liability official-capacity service-of-process sovereign-immunity state-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a foreign state's immunity from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act extends to an individual for acts taken in the individual's fo…