claim-construction
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1068 | CAO Lighting, Inc. v. Wolfspeed, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2026-03-10 | Pending | Amici (1)Response Waived | administrative-procedure-act claim-construction inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board summary-affirmance | Whether the Federal Circuit's use of its Local Rule 36, which allows summary affirmance without opinion, (a) improperly defers to the Patent Trial and… |
| 25-779 | Bright Data Ltd. v. Code200, UAB, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-construction inter-partes-review patent-claim-scope patent-disclaimer patent-prosecution trademark-office-proceedings | When a patentee disclaims subject matter from the scope of its claims by written statements made at any time during U.S. Patent and Trademark Office p… |
| 25-477 | Aaron Jacob Mindiola v. Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-construction eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-credit-reporting-act pro-se title-ii-ada | In an Arizona divorce, despite A.R.S. §25-403(5)'s best-interests standard addressing the mental health of all parties, the court compelled only the d… |
| 25-225 | MSN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation | Federal Circuit | 2025-08-26 | Denied | Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | after-arising-technology claim-construction federal-circuit patent-infringement patent-validity section-112 | In a patent case, "after-arising technology" is technology that was not invented until after the patent's filing. Neither this Court nor the Federal C… |
| 24-836 | Impact Engine, Inc. v. Google LLC | Federal Circuit | 2025-02-05 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-construction functional-claim judicial-exception patent-act patent-eligibility scientific-building-blocks | Section 101 of the Patent Act provides that "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter" is eligible for a patent. This… |
| 24-6473 | Joshua Gunnar Olson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law claim-construction federal-circuit judicial-review patent-law patent-procedure | I - D\\} Co^^resCT\Mc^c\ vn extern of th Feotval (^(X^s-VeMes of w~Ht ^\o T\^V O'tAe^S Oft cotv^e^Oj? 2. For ^o^oStS of ^6^W a0\\^ lojys \ av\\cVC Of… |
| 24-827 | Broadband iTV, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | alice-test claim-construction material-fact patent-eligibility patent-law summary-judgment | Courts assess whether patent claims are patenteligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 using the two-step test articulated in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Internatio… | |
| 23-241 | Joe Salazar v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2023-09-13 | Denied | claim-construction due-process fifth-amendment investment-backed-expectations judicial-taking patent patent-rights property-rights takings takings-clause | Where the Federal Circuit Panel's construction of petitioner's patent claim was unforesee able and unjustifiable under the circuit's prior decisions, … | |
| 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 unpatentability—including prior art that the p… |
| 22-803 | Virentem Ventures, LLC v. Google LLC | Federal Circuit | 2023-02-24 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-construction due-process federal-circuit patent patent-invalidity ptab ptab-determination rule-36 | 1. Does the Federal Circuit's use of Rule 36 to affirm without opinion PTAB invalidity determinations that are challenged based on pure questions of l… |
| 22-6417 | Eric C. Burgie v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure claim-construction criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation racial-discrimination standing statute-of-limitations tolling | Surgte bo cfe£ CQ mode 0/0^QOTLt&zhe ^wve //ujruiW suclnC.C ncujr'n S kmc ? 3. wUe-Hoer- 4^e AisfricV ccu^rV oWsei) Ai'scn^en iVuiV^r> Hr. o^pomVtw… |
| 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 | 1. 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 tw… |
| 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 | The patents-in-suit are directed to an electronic hardware device comprising a content player/remote-control combination having numerous concretely-re… |
| 21-1228 | Ameranth, Inc. v. Olo, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | 35-usc-101 alice-framework alice-two-step claim-construction judicial-exception patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-ineligible-concept question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 | This computer-based patent infringement case presents the same questions pending before the Court in American Axle & Mfg, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC,… | |
| 21-811 | Yanbin Yu, et al. v. Apple Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-construction diamond-v-diehr federal-circuit mayo-test mayo-v-prometheus parker-v-flook patent-claim patent-claims patent-eligibility point-of-novelty | Whether, when applying the test for patent eligibility set forth in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U.S. 66 (2012), … |
| 21-757 | Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (33)Response RequestedRelisted (4) | 35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-scope enablement enablement-requirement invention-disclosure judicial-review patent patent-law statutory-interpretation undue-experimentation written-description | 1. Whether enablement is "a question of fact to be determined by the jury," Wood v. Underhill, 46 U.S. (5 How.) 1, 4 (1846), as this Court has held, o… |
| 21-438 | Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | appellate-review claim-construction infringement jury-trial jury-verdict patent patent-law seventh-amendment sua-sponte | Whether the Seventh Amendment allows the Federal Circuit to reverse a jury verdict based on a sua sponte new claim construction of a term the district… |
| 21-413 | Infinity Computer Products, Inc. v. Oki Data Americas, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-interpretation definiteness-standard expert-testimony indefiniteness patent patent-law patent-specification person-skilled-in-the-art prosecution-history | Whether a patent claim is indefinite under § 112, ¶ 2, if conflicting positions about a claim term arise during the patent prosecution process, even i… |
| 21-170 | Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | 35-usc-112 35-usc-112f claim-construction federal-circuit indefiniteness nautilus-standard nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a patent claim may be invalidated for indefiniteness only if, under 35 U.S.C. § 112, para. 2 (now subsection 112(b)) as construed by Nautilus,… | |
| 20-1604 | Biogen MA Inc. v. EMD Serono, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | anticipation claim-construction incentives medical-treatment method-of-treatment novelty patent patent-law patent-validity prior-art recombinant-protein | Whether courts may disregard the express claim term "recombinant" so as to render a method-of-treatment patent anticipated—and thus invalid—in light o… | |
| 20-1545 | TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 | Federal Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | 35-usc-271 claim-construction industry-standard infringement judicial-precedent literal-infringement patent patent-infringement statutory-interpretation | This Court's precedent in Markman requires that the construction of a patent "is exclusively within the province of the court." Markman v. Westview In… | |
| 20-1517 | Fast 101 Pty. Ltd. v. Citigroup Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-04-30 | Denied | Response Waived | 12(b)(6)-dismissal alice-mayo-test claim-construction claim-language inventive-concept patent-eligibility prior-art subject-matter-eligibility | 1. When analyzing patent claims for subject matter eligibility "as a whole," does a court need to evaluate the differences between prior art allegatio… |
| 20-1420 | Roadie, Inc. v. Baggage Airline Guest Services, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | attorney-fees claim-construction exceptional-case highmark-v-allcare infringement infringement-claim judicial-discretion octane-fitness-v-icon patent-law patent-statute-35-usc-285 | Whether District Court judges should be required to consider the weakness of an infringement claim, after ruling in favor of the defendant on invalidi… | |
| 20-1284 | Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso | Federal Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | abstention claim-construction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-abstention federal-jurisdiction patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-law state-court-proceedings | Whether a federal court with exclusive jurisdiction over a claim may abstain in favor of a state court with no jurisdiction over that claim. |
| 20-891 | American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | CVSGAmici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | 35-usc-101 alice-v-cls claim-construction judicial-exception judicial-exceptions patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-law standard-of-review two-step-framework | American Axle invented a new process for making a new, useful, and tangible thing – a quieter automobile driveshaft. It is the type of invention that … |
| 20-863 | Akeva L.L.C. v. Nike, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-interpretation federal-circuit-split innovation-goals judicial-precedent patent-claim-construction patent-law patent-property-rights predictability property-rights public-notice | Whether the Federal Circuit's "heavy presumption" line of cases or its "holistic" line should govern claim construction. |
| 20-313 | Acer America Corporation, et al. v. Intellisoft, Ltd., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-1451 claim-construction federal-jurisdiction gunn-v-minton inventorship patent-law removal removal-jurisdiction trade-secret | (1) Where Plaintiffs' theories of trade secret ownership, misappropriation, and damages depend on deciding the patent law issues of inventorship, clai… |
| 20-88 | HZNP Finance Limited, et al. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2020-07-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-112 claim-construction consisting-essentially-of nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-act patent-claim patent-validity reasonable-certainty statutory-interpretation transitional-phrase | Whether the "basic and novel properties" identified in connection with a patent claim's transitional phrase "consisting essentially of" must independe… |
| 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… |
| 19-1228 | Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 5th-amendment 7th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure claim-construction due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-infringement-non-infringement rule-36 seventh-amendment standing summary-judgment | 1. Whether under Rule 36 of the Federal Circuit's Rules of Procedure the Federal Circuit may affirm a judgment of non-infringement without opinion and… |
| 19-1131 | Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC | Federal Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Amici (1) | 35-usc-112 claim-construction federal-circuit patent-claims patent-law patent-law-35-usc-112 patent-specification patent-validity statutory-interpretation written-description written-description-requirement | Whether § 112 requires a patent's specification to contain a written description of all of the limitations of a patent's claims, not just a "substanti… |
| 19-1017 | Solutran, Inc. v. Elavon, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | alice-test alice-v-cls-bank bilski-v-kappos business-method-patent business-method-patents claim-construction patent-eligibility prior-art subject-matter-eligibility | Does Alice's step one require that the claims be viewed as a whole and that consideration be given to the claimed advance over the prior art? |
| 19-571 | Intel Corporation, et al. v. Continental Circuits LLC | Federal Circuit | 2019-10-31 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | claim-construction claim-interpretation claim-scope disclaimer disclaimer-doctrine federal-circuit ordinary-meaning patent patent-construction specification specification-analysis written-description | Whether courts should construe a patent's claims in light of the written description of the invention disclosed in the patent's specification, or whet… |
| 19-400 | Garmin USA, Inc., et al. v. Cellspin Soft, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | 35-usc-101 civil-procedure claim-construction eligibility inventive-claims inventive-concept judicial-review legal-question motion-to-dismiss patent patent-eligibility patent-law pleadings question-of-law subject-matter-eligibility | Whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court that can be resolved on a motion to dismiss, notwithstanding allegations in a complaint … |
| 18A1325 | Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Presumed Complete | alice-corp claim-construction federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 | Question not identified. | |
| 18-1508 | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Apple Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Denied | claim-construction de-novo-review due-process JMOL jury-fact-finding jury-fact-findings jury-findings jury-trial patent-infringement procedural-due-process remand seventh-amendment standard-of-review teva-v-sandoz | 1. Where the district court properly instructed the jury to give a claim limitation its "plain and ordinary meaning as viewed from the perspective of … | |
| 18-1515 | Eli Lilly and Company v. Erfindergemeinschaft UroPep GbR | Federal Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-112 ariad-pharmaceuticals claim-construction enablement functional-claiming halliburton-oil-well-cementing halliburton-oil-well-cementing-co-v-walker halliburton-precedent patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-law point-of-novelty single-step-claim written-description | Whether a single-step patent claim that describes its point of novelty solely in functional terms violates the rule against functional claiming set fo… |
| 18-495 | Morris & Associates, Inc. v. John Bean Technologies Corporation | Federal Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | claim-construction due-process equitable-estoppel federal-circuit implied-license judicial-procedure patent patent-claims patent-infringement patent-law reexamination scotus-precedent waiver | In Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, Inc., 134 S.Ct. 1962 (2014), and SCA Hygiene Prods. Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Prods., LLC, 137 S.Ct. 954 (2… | |
| 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 | The question presented is 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… |
| 18-6043 | Patrick Wayne Manning, II v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2018-09-19 | Denied | IFP | access-to-court civil-rights claim-construction court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-claims pro-se-litigants recharacterization-of-claims | Names v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520, 92 S. -Ct. 594, 30 L. Ed. 2d 652 (1972), allows a court unfettered authority to construe pro se prisoner claims. S… |
| 18-222 | EMED Technologies Corporation v. Repro-Med Systems, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | administrative-procedure claim-construction constitutional-amendment digital-claim due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-claim-construction patent-law-procedure review-procedure standard-of-review takings | 1. Given the clear error standard for reviewing factual determinations made by the PTAB1, is it error for the PTAB to not adhere to the Fhillips claim… | |
| 18-88 | Richard Gramm v. Deere & Company | Federal Circuit | 2018-07-18 | GVR | certiorari claim-construction claim-institution federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab sas-institute-v-iancu supreme-court-procedure | In light of SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu, 138 S. Ct. 1348 (2018), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate, and remand the Federal Circuit's decision… |