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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 Question not identified.
25A14 Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-07-03 Presumed Complete america-invents-act critical-date inter-partes-review patent-challenge printed-publication prior-art Whether an abandoned patent application that was not publicly accessible before a patent's critical date can nonetheless qualify as 'prior art' under …
24-635 Celanese International Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Amici (2) america-invents-act on-sale-bar patent-invalidation patent-law process-claims secret-process Whether the sale of an end product made by a secret process invalidates the patent on that process under the America Invents Act when the process itse…
23-315 VirnetX Inc. v. Mangrove Partners Master Fund, Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) america-invents-act article-iii commissioner-for-patents director-review federal-vacancies-reform-act inter-partes-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-time-limit Whether the Federal Circuit erred in upholding joinder of a party under 35 U.S.C. §315(c), where the joined party did not 'properly file[ ] a petition…
22-927 Nike, Inc. v. Adidas AG, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-316 america-invents-act claim-construction inter-partes-review patent-holder patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board prior-art substitute-claims Whether, in inter partes review, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board may raise sua sponte a new ground of prior art that the petitioner neither cited no…
22-873 Ingenio, Inc., et al. v. Click-to-Call Technologies LP Federal Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) america-invents-act estoppel federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent-law statutory-interpretation Whether 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)'s IPR estoppel provision applies only to claims addressed in the final written decision, even if other claims were or could…
21-1527 CustomPlay, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-rights patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation trademark Whether the PTO violated the AIA by delegating the Director's responsibility to the PTAB
20-737 B/E Aerospace, Inc. v. C&D Zodiac, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure america-invents-act inter-partes-review obviousness patent-challenge patent-validity printed-publications prior-art statutory-interpretation Whether the Board has authority to consider unpatentability on a ground of obviousness that is not 'only on the basis of prior art consisting of paten…
20-631 Hologic, Inc., et al. v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied administrative-proceedings america-invents-act assignor-estoppel collateral-estoppel infringement-litigation patent-infringement patent-office patent-validity Whether an assignor of a patent may circumvent the doctrine of assignor estoppel by challenging the validity of the assigned patent in administrative …
20-333 Bozeman Financial LLC v. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) america-invents-act federal-government federal-reserve-banks federal-reserve-system government-entity patent patent-review post-issuance-review return-mail-decision return-mail-v-usps standing Whether the regional Federal Reserve Banks are distinct from the Federal Government and qualify as 'persons' permitted to seek post-issuance patent re…
20-74 Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Eugene H. Luoma, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-27 GVR Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law america-invents-act enablement intellectual-property judicial-review obviousness patent-eligibility patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity prior-art written-description Whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's application of the statutory requirements for patentability under 35 U.S.C. §§ 101, 102, 103, and 112 was …
19-8707 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-15 Dismissed IFP america-invents-act constitution-clause constitutional-prohibition contract-clause due-process government-grants patent patent-rights separation-of-powers standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the USPTO/PTAB and Federal Circuit were aware of the prohibition of the Constitution against repudiating Government-issued contract grants
19-8094 Caleb S. Motupalli v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-112 america-invents-act enablement interdisciplinary-invention interdisciplinary-team patent-enablement patent-examination patent-specification pre-aia pro-se single-skilled-person waiver Does the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) permit the retroactive application of a scintilla of inadequacy in Pre-AIA to overturn precedent by ins…
19-1074 Celgene Corporation v. Laura A. Peter, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) administrative-review america-invents-act fifth-amendment inter-partes-review lucas-test patent-rights patent-rights-takings patent-trial-and-appeal-board patents penn-central-test property-rights takings takings-clause Whether retroactive application of inter partes review to patents issued before passage of the America Invents Act violates the Takings Clause of the …
19-966 Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-02-03 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 35-usc-103 35-usc-324 administrative-law america-invents-act cbm-patent covered-business-method judicial-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation Whether 35 U.S.C. 324(e) permits review on appeal of the Director's threshold determination, as part of the decision to institute CBM review, that the…
19-601 Collabo Innovations, Inc. v. Sony Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Relisted (4) 5th-amendment america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act patent retroactive-application retroactivity takings-clause Does the retroactive application of inter partes review to a patent that issued before the passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. No.…
19-120 IBG LLC, et al. v. Trading Technologies International, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response Waived america-invents-act covered-business-method federal-circuit federal-circuit-split patent-eligibility patent-review patent-validity statutory-interpretation technological-invention Whether a patent that does not satisfy the first prong of § 42.301(b)—that is, that does not recite a novel and non-obvious technological feature—clai…
18-999 Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Bennett Regulator Guards, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-01-31 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-procedure administrative-review america-invents-act dismissal-without-prejudice federal-circuit-jurisdiction inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law patent-review-procedure-35-usc-314-315 patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing time-bar Did the Federal Circuit err in concluding that it had jurisdiction to review the Board's decision to institute inter partes review
18-7691 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP america-invents-act civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-grants due-process judicial-review patent patent-prosecution-history-estoppel patent-reexamination standing takings Whether the District Court and Circuit Court Judges have a duty to abide by the Constitution and rule per the Law of the Case and Law of the Land
18-916 Thryv, Inc., fka Dex Media, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-15 Judgment Issued Amici (18)Relisted (3) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 america-invents-act cuozzo inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab section-315b time-bar wi-fi-one Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) permits appeal of the PTAB's decision to institute an inter partes review upon finding that § 315(b)'s time bar did not app…
18-183 Advanced Audio Devices, LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 5th-amendment aia america-invents-act constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent patent-law patents takings-clause Whether inter partes review (IPR) of patents filed before enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA") violates the Takings Clause of the …