| 25A82 |
Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ai-authorship copyright-office copyright-protection creative-works intellectual-property machine-generated-work |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5461 |
Ronald Ragan, Jr. v. Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation copyright-law copyright-protection eighth-circuit feist-decision originality-standard |
Whether the correct standard of copyrightability is the Constitutional and statutory standard of originality as articulated in Feist or the Eighth Cir… |
| 23A805 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Valancourt Books, LLC |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
copyright-deposit copyright-protection fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation library-of-congress |
Whether the mandatory deposit requirement for copyrighted works constitutes an unconstitutional taking of private property under the Fifth Amendment's… |
| 21-5082 |
Benjamin Michael Dubay v. Stephen King, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggregation-of-traits character-protection character-traits comic-book-characters constitutional-rights copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-protection expert-testimony fact-question jury-determination |
Whether comic book characters are protected independently from the copyrighted work due to their original and consistent aggregation of traits |
| 20-142 |
Michael Skidmore, as Trustee for the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust v. Led Zeppelin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
copyright-act copyright-act-of-1909 copyright-protection deposit-requirement musical-works ninth-circuit originality selection-and-arrangement sheet-music tangible-medium |
Whether musical works under the Copyright Act of 1909 are protected as created and fixed in a tangible medium, or limited to sheet music deposits |
| 19-5299 |
Samuel Rivera Rosado v. Lucid Energy, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-protection design-theft due-process intellectual-property patent patent-infringement patent-registration standing takings |
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court can allow a company to steal a person's copyright ownership, design, drawing and blueprints and secure a patent for the… |
| 18-8613 |
Quincy Magee v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
antitrust business-disputes civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement copyright-protection corporate-infringement due-process employment-rights fraud intellectual-property licensing patent patent-infringement patent-ownership standing trade-secret |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging copyright infringement, patent infringement, and fraud |
| 18-956 |
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (77)Relisted (4) |
17-usc-102 17-usc-107 computer-code computer-program copyright-law copyright-protection fair-use federal-circuit intellectual-property software-development software-interface |
Whether copyright protection extends to a software interface |
| 18-728 |
Jacobus Rentmeester v. Nike, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
9th-circuit circuit-split copyright copyright-law copyright-protection creative-expression intellectual-property judicial-interpretation original-creative-judgments original-judgments photographic-originality photography selection-and-arrangement |
Is copyright protection for a photograph limited solely to the photographer's 'selection and arrangement' of unprotected elements, as the Ninth Circui… |