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25-953 Finesse Wireless LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending credibility-determination expert-testimony federal-circuit judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-law Whether a purported inconsistency in the testimony of an expert witness is an issue of credibility for the jury to resolve or a basis for judgment as …
25A884 CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2026-02-05 Application federal-circuit patent-appeal patent-validity prior-art rule-36 unpatentability Whether the Federal Circuit's Rule 36 summary affirmance without opinion improperly limits meaningful appellate review of Patent Trial and Appeal Boar…
25A845 CAO Lighting, Inc. v. Wolfspeed, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-23 Application administrative-procedure agency-deference due-process federal-circuit patent-review summary-affirmance Whether the Federal Circuit may use summary affirmance to shield potential due process violations by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) when leg…
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 Whether the Federal Circuit has wrongly extended the prohibition on patenting an 'abstract idea' to prohibit patenting concrete technological processe…
25-555 SurfCast, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-law due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure patent-law property-rights Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144, which requires the Federal Circuit to issue 'opinion[s]' in PTAB appeals, is a reasoning giving directive that prohibits the …
25-462 Chinook Landing, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied adverse-interest federal-circuit government-easement property-rights quiet-title-act statute-of-limitations Is a Quiet Title Act claim timely if it is filed within twelve years of the government asserting an interest in plaintiff's property, after government…
25-435 Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-10-09 Pending Amici (1)Response Requested administrative-agency federal-circuit legal-standing proximate-causation trademark-opposition zone-of-interests Whether a party desiring to participate in an administrative agency proceeding must satisfy the zone-of-interests and proximate-causation tests set fo…
25-428 Percipient.ai, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-10-08 Denied Amici (6) contract-award court-of-federal-claims federal-circuit interested-party procurement-law statutory-interpretation Did the en banc Federal Circuit err in holding that a person must meet the requirements for challenging a solicitation or contract award under the fir…
25-373 Kim Anne Farrington v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived article-three due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board separation-of-powers Whether the Federal Circuit's Rule 36 affirmances without opinion in Merit Systems Protection Board cases violate separation of powers and due process…
25-375 CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response Waived administrative-review appellate-procedure federal-circuit patent-law rule-36 statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36 violates 35 U.S.C. § 144 by allowing affirmance without opinion when reviewing Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions
25-5736 In Re Ahmad Aljindi 2025-09-25 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process federal-circuit judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief obstruction-of-justice Whether the Federal Circuit and lower courts systematically violated constitutional due process and judicial integrity through coordinated judicial mi…
25-341 EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived damages-evaluation due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit jury-award seventh-amendment Whether the Federal Circuit violated the Seventh Amendment by overturning the jury's damages award based on its own evaluation of the sufficiency of t…
25-270 Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-injury estoppel federal-circuit intellectual-property patent-infringement patent-standing Whether the Federal Circuit erred in affirming summary judgment of non-infringement based on estoppel and constitutional standing in patent infringeme…
25A233 Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. Synthego Corp. Federal Circuit 2025-08-28 Presumed Complete biotechnology crispr federal-circuit patent-enablement prior-art research-and-development Whether the Federal Circuit's presumption of enablement for prior art publications in unpredictable technological fields improperly undermines patent …
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 Whether, in a patent-infringement suit, a court may consider after arising technology to hold that the patent is invalid under § 112(a) of the Patent …
25A179 EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-08-12 Presumed Complete due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit harmless-error patent-law seventh-amendment Whether the Federal Circuit improperly supplanted the jury's fact-finding role and violated due process by granting a new trial on damages in a patent…
25-158 R. J. Reynolds Vapor Company v. Altria Client Services LLC Federal Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response Waived apportionment expert-testimony federal-circuit patent-damages patent-infringement royalty-calculation Does the Federal Circuit's 'built-in apportionment' exception violate Garretson v. Clark's requirement of apportionment in patent damages cases?
24-7441 In Re Amy R. Weissbrod Gurvey 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-jurisdiction due-process ex-parte federal-circuit patent-infringement sovereign-immunity Whether the Supreme Court has a constitutional duty to exercise original jurisdiction in a patent infringement dispute between New York and California…
24A1228 City of Fresno, California, et al. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete certiorari federal-circuit municipal-appeal procedural-review supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether a municipality may seek an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari under Supreme Court procedural rules when seeking review of a F…
24A1215 MSN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-06-10 Presumed Complete after-arising-technology enablement-doctrine federal-circuit genus-claim patent-law patent-validity Whether a patent may validly claim a genus without describing or enabling species of the genus that utilize after-arising technology
24-1181 Matthew T. McLeay v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-review argument-revival federal-circuit judicial-discretion legal-precedent waiver Whether a court can revive a waived argument previously abandoned by the government
24-1137 NexStep, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied Response Waived doctrine-of-equivalents expert-testimony federal-circuit jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-law Whether a patentee must in every case present 'particularized testimony and linking argument' to establish infringement under the doctrine of equivale…
24-1132 Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied federal-circuit non-obviousness obviousness patent-law pharmaceutical-innovation secondary-considerations Whether the objective indicia of non-obviousness should be analyzed flexibly to combat hindsight bias or subject to the Federal Circuit's rigid rules …
24-1058 CloudofChange, LLC v. NCR Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response Waived direct-use federal-circuit method-claims patent-infringement system-claims vicarious-liability Whether the same vicarious liability analysis for direct use infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a) must be applied to both method and system claims
24-997 James Doyle, dba Rocky Mountain Ventures, dba Environmental Land Technologies, Ltd. v. United States Federal Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-exhaustion federal-circuit property-rights regulatory-action ripeness-doctrine takings-claim Whether a regulatory takings claim against the United States is ripe when a property owner demonstrates de facto finality and without obtaining the go…
24-916 Koss Corporation v. Bose Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel dismissal-stipulation federal-circuit non-merits-determination patent-claims rule-12(b)(6) When a district court grants a Rule-12(b)(6) motion to dismiss but does so without prejudice and with leave to amend, may that non-merits determinatio…
24-893 Eric Jamie Katz v. Department of Justice Federal Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-judge due-process federal-circuit hostile-work-environment merit-systems-protection-board whistleblower-retaliation Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying a rehearing en banc regarding a whistleblower's hostile work environment claim against the Department of …
24-6592 Lawrence E. Mattison v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collateral-orders-doctrine court-transfer federal-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is required to vacate a transfer order if transfer violated 28 U.S.C. §1631
24A777 ATOS, LLC, dba RideMetric v. Allstate Insurance Company Federal Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review due-process federal-circuit patent-review ptab-decision summary-affirmance Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of summarily affirming Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions without issuing reasoned opinions violates due p…
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 Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted the scope of patent-related claims and standards of review for administrative patent determinations
24A730 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2025-01-24 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure civil-service-reform due-process federal-circuit merit-systems-protection-board whistleblower-protection Whether the procedural missteps and jurisdictional errors in the Merit Systems Protection Board and Federal Circuit proceedings constitute a violation…
24-723 Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived federal-circuit judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-infringement seventh-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit applied an incorrect standard of review for appeals of a Judgment as a Matter of Law (JMOL) and improperly overturned a ju…
24A662 Nazir Khan v. Artivion, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete appeal-denial certiorari extension-of-time federal-circuit pro-se supreme-court Whether a pro se litigant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted when multiple federal circuit…
24A646 American Medical Equipment, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete appellate-record contract-dispute covid-impact federal-circuit rule-10e summary-judgment Whether federal appellate courts have discretionary authority to supplement the appellate record under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(e) in ca…
24A577 Koss Corporation v. Bose Corporation Federal Circuit 2024-12-12 Presumed Complete federal-circuit issue-estoppel patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-preclusion pleading-sufficiency Whether issue preclusion can apply to a district court's dismissal with leave to amend when the amended complaint is subsequently filed and the case i…
24A497 Audio Evolution Diagnostics, Inc. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-11-19 Presumed Complete alice-doctrine federal-circuit mayo-standard patent-eligibility section-101 technological-innovation Whether the Federal Circuit's current approach to patent eligibility under Section 101 creates unconstitutional uncertainty and undermines technologic…
24A469 Urvashi Bhagat v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit patent-dispute summary-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit improperly disregarded constitutional due process protections and procedural rules in reviewing a patent-related dispute i…
24A388 Celanese International Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission Federal Circuit 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete administrative-proceeding appellate-rights corporate-review federal-circuit international-trade trade-law Whether the Federal Circuit's interpretation of trade law improperly limits corporate appellate rights in administrative trade proceedings
24-443 In Re Martin Akerman 2024-10-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure federal-circuit filing-date mandamus merit-systems-protection-board office-of-special-counsel Whether the Federal Circuit erred in failing to recognize the correct filing date and must correct case procedures related to MSPB and OSC proceedings
24-428 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, et al. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-circuit hatch-waxman-act patent-infringement regulatory-use safe-harbor statutory-interpretation Whether, under Hatch-Waxman's safe harbor, an infringing act is 'solely for uses reasonably related' to the federal regulatory process, when the infri…
24A324 Harris Brumfield, Trustee for Ascent Trust v. IBG LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-10-03 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari federal-circuit judicial-review time-extension trust-interests Whether the Federal Circuit improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a commercial dispute involving trust interests and financial transactions
24-236 Steve Campbell v. Tube-Mac Industries, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-08-30 Denied Response Waived co-inventor-rights federal-circuit patent-assignment patent-jurisdiction unclean-hands wipo-treaty Whether federal courts have jurisdiction to order patent co-inventors added to foreign patents under the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty and Federal Ci…
24A195 Louis Frantzis v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete administrative-exhaustion administrative-law federal-circuit judicial-review time-extension veterans-benefits Whether a veteran can challenge a Department of Veterans Affairs benefits determination through a timely judicial appeal after exhausting administrati…
24-114 Zebra Technologies Corporation v. Intellectual Tech LLC Federal Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii complex-contracts exclusionary-rights exclusive-licensee federal-circuit licensing-rights patent-infringement patent-standing standing patent-infringement
24A8 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-07-08 Presumed Complete constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-circuit judicial-discretion patent-litigation vexatious-litigant Whether the Federal Circuit's use of the term 'vexatious litigant' violates due process by failing to provide fair notice and constituting an unconsti…
24A2 Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-03 Presumed Complete appellate-review federal-circuit judicial-sanction pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari Whether the Federal Circuit improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's sanction order against pro se litigants
23-1349 Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied Response Waived confidentiality federal-circuit inter-partes-review on-sale-bar patent-law patent-law-35-usc-311-b printed-publication prior-art public-accessibility Did the Federal Circuit err in holding that a product manual distributed with an on-sale product constitutes a printed publication that can be asserte…
23A1111 Roku, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2024-06-14 Presumed Complete certiorari-extension federal-circuit patent-law statutory-interpretation technology-dispute trade-commission Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted the statutory framework governing patent-related trade disputes between technology companies and the…
23-1217 Chestek PLLC v. Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Amici (5) administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit notice-and-comment patent-office patent-trademark-office rulemaking statutory-interpretation Whether the PTO is exempt from notice-and-comment requirements when exercising its rulemaking power under 35 U.S.C. § 2(b)(2)
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…
23A969 Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 Presumed Complete case-appeal extension-of-time federal-circuit judicial-review pro-se writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower federal court improperly adjudicated a legal dispute involving medical or professional claims between Dr. Usha Jain and other partie…
23-1118 Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Bumble Trading LLC Federal Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-251 claim-interpretation claim-limitation federal-circuit original-patent original-patent-requirement patent patent-reissue reissue statutory-construction u.s.-industrial-chemicals-inc-v-carbide-carbon-che Should Antares Pharma, Inc. v. Medac Pharma Inc., 771 F.3d 1354 (Fed. Cir. 2014) be overruled
23A883 Cellect, LLC v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2024-04-04 Presumed Complete federal-circuit obviousness-type-double-patenting patent-expiration patent-term-adjustment patent-term-extension patent-validity Whether Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) and Patent Term Extension (PTE) should be interpreted consistently when determining the expiration dates of commo…
23-7127 Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1254 28-usc-1257 administrative-law constitutional-mandate federal-authority federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal merit-systems-protection-board state-authority Jurisdiction over habeas corpus decisions from the federal circuit
23-1023 Jodi A. Schwendimann v. Neenah, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied and making it impossible for Patent Owner to seek and the Federal Circuit's Rule 36 affirmance does thereby making it impossible for Patent Owner and claim-anticipation federal-circuit judicial-transparency patent-claim-construction patent-law,patent-claim-construction,federal-circu patent-review rule-36-judgment Is it permissible for the Federal Circuit to issue a Rule 36 Judgment, affirming certain claims as anticipated, where the Federal Circuit has been pre…
23-892 Jason Antoine Brock v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure discrimination-claim due-process eeoc equal-employment-opportunity federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-review statutory-interpretation Whether 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(2) is fair in allowing 30-days for judicial review
23A716 Ikorongo Texas LLC, et al. v. Bumble Trading LLC Federal Circuit 2024-02-02 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari due-process federal-circuit judicial-transparency summary-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit's summary judgment procedure without an opinion violates due process or appellate transparency requirements
23-804 Liquidia Technologies, Inc. v. United Therapeutics Corporation Federal Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law federal-circuit induced-infringement inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-validity preclusion preclusion-doctrine ptab statutory-framework Whether a party may be liable for induced patent infringement when the PTAB has already issued a final written decision determining that the same pate…
23A685 Evan H. Nordby v. Social Security Administration Federal Circuit 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete federal-circuit judicial-review notice-of-appeal patent-law supreme-court-rule time-extension Whether a patent applicant may seek judicial review of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision after failing to timely file a notice of appeal
23-779 David Forsythe v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Amici (3) accardi-doctrine administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit judicial-review notice-requirements statutory-interpretation va-regulation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether the Federal Circuit misinterpreted 38 U.S.C. § 5103(a)(1) to allow VA to issue evidentiary notice only before receiving a veteran's claim
23-768 Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-circuit innovation-standard ksr-international-co-v-teleflex KSR-precedent obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-law predictable-results reasonable-expectation-of-success Whether obviousness requires a showing of 'predictable' results, as this Court held in KSR, or a mere 'reasonable expectation of success,' as the Fede…
23-713 Joshua E. Bufkin v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2024-01-03 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) 38-usc-7261 benefit-of-doubt benefit-of-the-doubt-rule claims-process federal-circuit judicial-review statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits veterans-benefits-act-of-2002 veterans-court Must the Veterans Court ensure that the benefit-of-the-doubt rule was properly applied during the claims process in order to satisfy 38 U.S.C. § 7261(…
23-6405 Brian K. Allen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-circuit fundamental-rights plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the near consensus Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals' application of plea agreement appeal waivers as to subsequent sentencing proceedings, wh…
23A562 Tarun Surti v. Fleet Engineers, Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete evidence-exclusion federal-circuit injunctive-relief mudflap-design patent-infringement patent-remedies Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the scope of patent infringement claims and remedies for a mudflap design patent un…
23-575 Fleur Tehrani v. Hamilton Technologies LLC Federal Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied 35-usc-103 federal-circuit obviousness patent patent-invalidation patent-law posita prior-art Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in its analysis
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
23-421 Alfonso Cioffi, et al. v. Google LLC Federal Circuit 2023-10-20 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-251 embodiment-standard federal-circuit original-patent patent patent-disclosure patent-law patent-reissue reissue statutory-interpretation u.s.-industrial-chemicals Should the Antares Pharma, Inc. v. Medac Pharma Inc., 771 F.3d 1354, 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2014) 'exact embodiment' standard for 'original patent' disclosur…
23A246 Rowland J. Martin, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-09-15 Presumed Complete federal-circuit fifth-circuit judicial-review marbury-v-madison patent-applications subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Federal Circuit or the Fifth Circuit has subject-matter jurisdiction over patent-related disputes involving abandoned but revivable patent…
23-245 ChromaDex, Inc., et al. v. Elysium Health, Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response Waived alice-mayo-framework alice-v-cls-bank biotechnology federal-circuit inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus natural-phenomena patent-eligibility Whether the two-step Alice/Mayo framework governs the eligibility of patents allegedly directed to natural phenomena
23-223 Charles J. Jenkins v. TriWest Healthcare Alliance, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-courts judicial-authority judicial-review rule-56 separation-of-powers stare-decisis sua-sponte whether-the-triumvirate-overstepped-their-authority
23-185 HIP, Inc. v. Hormel Foods Corporation Federal Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied 35-usc-116 conception-standard federal-circuit federal-circuit-interpretation joint-invention joint-inventorship patent patent-claim patent-inventorship patent-specification statutory-construction Whether joint inventorship requires anything more than a contribution to conception that is stated in a patent claim
23-141 Rowland J. Martin, Jr., Individually and as Administrator to the Estate of Johnnie Mae King v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-jurisdiction remand removal removal-action statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a removal action supported by 28 USC 1338 and 1454 is justiciable by way of a district court order of remand issued pursuant to 28 USC 1447?
23-137 Yvonne Crews v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-procedure clear-error congressional-intent effective-date federal-circuit statutory-interpretation substitution substitution-of-claimant veterans-benefits When Congress enacted 38 U.S.C. § 5121A to authorize for the substitution of a deceased claimant, was its intent clear that a substituted appellant co…
23-5179 Arnes Becirovic v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-21 Stuart R. Harrow v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2023-07-06 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (4) administrative-law federal-circuit federal-employee filing-deadline judicial-review jurisdictional jurisdictional-deadline merit-systems-protection-board nonjurisdictional statutory-interpretation Whether the 60-day deadline in 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A) is jurisdictional
22-1220 Jeffrey A. Killian v. Katherine K. Vidal, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-doctrine alice-mayo-test due-process federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 uspto Whether the Federal Circuit's departures from Supreme Court precedent in applying the Alice/Mayo test have enabled the USPTO to violate the Administra…
22-1102 Acquisition 362, LLC, dba Strategic Import Supply v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied administrative-law civil-procedure court-of-international-trade customs-law federal-circuit import-protests jurisdictional-remedies standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals' decision that Petitioner's protests concerning rate and refund determinations were untimely and the Cour…
22-7490 Wendell W. Phillips v. United States Court of Federal Claims Federal Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12b1-motion abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process federal-circuit illegal-exaction just-compensation legislative-enactments mandamus-jurisdiction rule-10 substantive-private-rights Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction to rule on a petition for a writ of mandamus against a lower court…
22-7365 Gina Russomanno v. Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amendment-rights civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit frcp-rule-60 judicial-review patent phillips-v-county-of-allegheny pro-se rule-60 standing Whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
22-1001 NST Global, LLC, dba SB Tactical v. Sig Sauer Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act burden-of-proof due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent-construction patent-preamble patent-validity Whether the Federal Circuit's affirmance of the PTAB's decision on preamble construction impermissibly shifts the burden to invalidate a patent from t…
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…
22-815 Victor B. Skaar v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Amici (4) administrative-law all-writs-act class-action exhaustion exhaustion-requirement federal-circuit injunctive-relief judicial-jurisdiction statutory-authority veterans-affairs veterans-court Does the Veterans Court have statutory or inherent authority to include veterans whose individual claims are not yet exhausted in a class seeking inju…
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 Does the Federal Circuit's use of Rule 36 to affirm without opinion PTAB invalidity determinations that are challenged based on pure questions of law …
22-722 Frank Calapristi v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied Response Waived contract-law federal-circuit government-contractor government-contracts government-control government-involvement implied-contract implied-contracts tucker-act Whether the Federal Circuit's rule that no degree of government involvement or control over a contract between a government contractor and a third par…
22-6223 Byron O. Woods Sr. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard conclusions-of-law court-of-appeals fact-finding federal-circuit judicial-conflict legal-findings pullman-standard rule-52(a) standard-of-review Whether the Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States Court of Appeals on the sa…
22-439 Fraternal Order of Police, United States Park Police Labor Committee v. Department of the Interior Federal Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure employment-law federal-circuit judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation union union-standing Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's interpretation of 5 U.S.C. § 7703(a)(1) is incorrect in finding that an employee's union, on th…
22-298 Jump Rope Systems, LLC v. Coulter Ventures, LLC, dba Rogue Fitness Federal Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-estoppel federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-law patent-validity preclusion-doctrine restatement-of-judgments Whether a PTAB determination of unpatentability has collateral estoppel effect on patent validity in district court
22-5670 Ahmad Aljindi v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation court-of-federal-claims deprivation-of-rights due-process federal-circuit hate-crimes judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice supreme-court-abuse Did the United States Federal Government violate the Constitution and UN Charter?
22-203 Apple Inc., et al. v. California Institute of Technology Federal Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-procedure administrative-process civil-procedure federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit erroneously extended IPR-estoppel under 35-USC-315(e)(2) to all grounds that reasonably-could-have-been-raised in the peti…
22-98 Joseph Cacciapalle v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied dividend-appropriation fannie-mae federal-circuit freddie-mac government-taking property-rights shareholder-interests shareholder-rights takings takings-clause Did the Federal Circuit err in barring as 'substantively derivative' the claims of private shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the Taking o…
22-5142 David Adeyi v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-delay civil-rights covid-19-disruption disability-compensation due-process federal-circuit judicial-review pandemic-disruption service-connected-injury veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Should veteran be allowed to move his case forward, after he filed late with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, due to the Covid-19 pa…
22-5122 Faye Rennell Hobson v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination federal-circuit merit-systems-protection-board retaliation whistleblower-protection Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Whistleblower By Proxy case
22-38 CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied 28-usc-1404a federal-circuit jurisdictional-limits mandamus patent-law statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-transfer writ-of-mandamus Whether the Federal Circuit has subject matter jurisdiction over a petition for writ of mandamus challenging a denial of a motion to transfer venue un…
22-26 Larry G. Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response Waived commercial-offer contract-law federal-circuit on-sale-bar patent-infringement patent-invalidation prior-art standing third-party-quotation May a price quotation invoke the on-sale bar when made by a third party who had no right to sell the invention and with no involvement by the patentee…
21-1566 Juno Therapeutics, Inc., et al. v. Kite Pharma, Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (6) 35-usc-112(a) enablement federal-circuit invention-scope inventor-possession patent patent-law patent-specification statutory-interpretation written-description Whether the written description requirement under 35 USC 112(a) should be measured by the statutory standard or the Federal Circuit's 'possession' tes…
21-1567 Biogen International GmbH, et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied Amici (2) 35-usc-112 effective-dose efficacy-requirement federal-circuit multiple-sclerosis patent patent-law patent-specification statutory-interpretation written-description Is 35 U.S.C. § 112's written-description requirement met when the specification describes the invention?
21-1526 Gilbert P. Hyatt v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-procedure-act agency-action civil-procedure federal-circuit judicial-review mandamus-standard patent patent-office-rule standing summary-judgment Whether the ordinary summary judgment standard of Rule 56 applies to review of agency action
21-1505 Mark H. Bonner v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived article-i-court clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error collateral-estoppel equitable-jurisdiction equitable-remedy federal-circuit res-judicata veterans-claims Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has jurisdiction to decide a veteran's claim based on the equitable remedy of collateral estoppe…
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?
21-1267 Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc. Federal Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived civil-procedure damages egregious-conduct federal-circuit halo-electronics judicial-discretion patent patent-damages statutory-interpretation willful-infringement Whether enhanced damages under 35 U.S.C. § 284 may be awarded absent a finding of egregious infringement behavior
21-1256 Robert M. Athey, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1) american-rule attorney-fees common-law costs equal-access-to-justice-act federal-circuit fee-shifting statutory-interpretation Did a panel of the Federal Circuit err by entirely exempting the United States as a matter of law from liability for such fees and costs pursuant to t…
21-1150 Sharon Finizie, et al. v. Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process factual-findings federal-circuit judicial-review legal-misapplication merit-systems-protection-board standard-of-review Did the decisions/opinions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Merit Systems Protection Board constitute erroneous f…
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…
21-1056 Universal Secure Registry LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Amici (2) 35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test federal-circuit patent-act patent-eligibility section-101 specificity unconventionality unexpected-results Does patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 require 'specificity,' 'unexpected results' and 'unconventionality' in conflict with the Patent Act and …
21-7010 Jabari J. Johnson v. James Johnson Tenth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied IFP 35-usc-112 federal-circuit patent patent-act standing written-description Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in its interpretation of the Patent Act's written description requirement under 35 U.S…
21-1036 Gamon Plus, Inc. v. Campbell Soup Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause arthrex-precedent federal-circuit judicial-remand patent-law patent-review rehearing-petition remand separation-of-powers Whether the Court should vacate the judgment below and remand for further proceedings in light of Arthrex
21-6843 In Re Kevin Brewer 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process federal-circuit fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california scienter Whether the petitioner is liable for constituting any offense in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment…
21-888 Intel Corporation v. VLSI Technology LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law agency-rule agency-rulemaking arbitrary-or-capricious federal-circuit inter-partes-review leahy-smith-act leahy-smith-america-invents-act notice-and-comment-rulemaking patent patent-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denyin…
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 patent claims should be considered 'as a whole' or only the 'point of novelty' in determining patent eligibility
21-719 Sandwich Isles Communications, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied civil-rights communications-act confiscatory-rates due-process federal-circuit federal-communications-commission rate-regulation regulatory-taking takings Whether the lower court's holding that a regulatory taking claim based on confiscatory rates must be made at the Federal Communications Commission den…
21-691 FG SRC LLC v. Microsoft Corporation Federal Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied appellate-review arthrex-ruling civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-circuit gvr-order patent standing summary-decision takings Whether the Federal Circuit's summary decisions should be vacated and remanded to cure the constitutional violation in accordance with Arthrea v. Unit…
21-686 Maria Esparraguera v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied administrative-law civil-service-reform-act constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board senior-executive-service whether-the-federal-circuit-erred-in-holding-that-neither-it-nor-the-mspb-may-review-a-career-senior-executive's-removal-from-the-senior-executive-ser…
21-540 Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso Indiana 2021-10-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) claim-scope exclusive-jurisdiction federal-circuit federal-patent-law gunn-v-minton jurisdictional-split patent-jurisdiction patent-validity state-court-adjudication state-court-jurisdiction Whether a dispute raises substantial issues of federal patent law when its resolution necessarily depends on patent-law determinations regarding claim…
21-465 James L. Kisor v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied administrative-law disability-benefits federal-circuit post-traumatic-stress-disorder pro-veteran-canon regulatory-interpretation service-records statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits Whether the term 'relevant official service department records' in 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c)(1)'s 'reconsideration' provision encompasses all records that …
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…
21-432 Adolfo R. Arellano v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-09-21 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) 38-usc-5110 disability-benefits disability-compensation equitable-tolling federal-circuit irwin-v-department-of-veterans-affairs judicial-review statutory-deadline veterans veterans-benefits Does Irwin's rebuttable presumption of equitable tolling apply to the one-year statutory deadline in 38 U.S.C. § 5110(b)(1) for seeking retroactive di…
21-350 Infineum USA L.P. v. Chevron Oronite Company LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-09-07 GVR administrative-review appointments-clause certiorari-review federal-circuit federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-41 final-written-decision judicial-mandate mandate patent-proceedings united-states-v-arthrex Whether this Court should vacate the judgment below in view of its recent decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., and remand so that the United St…
21-330 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act antitrust-patent appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split due-process federal-circuit local-circuit mandamus patent-infringement supervisory-mandamus usurpation-of-duty Which appeals court has the duty to issue supervisory writs of mandamus under the All Writs Act during a combined antitrust and patent infringement la…
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
21-158 Bobcar Media, LLC v. Aardvark Event Logistics, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-circuit rule-36 seventh-amendment Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36 and elucidate the constitutional and statutory boundar…
21-118 Apple Inc. v. Optis Cellular Technology, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act mandamus-petition patent patent-review uspto Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office denying …
21-35 Henry E. Gossage v. Office of Personnel Management Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5-usc-702 administrative-law agency-decision civil-procedure constitutional-claims due-process employment-law federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction opm standing Whether the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction to determine its original and lower court's jurisdiction in OPM Investigation Case 01-904-277 and its Dec…
21-36 Henry E. Gossage v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdiction-on-the-merits jurisdictional-review merit-systems-protection-board opm personnel-suitability standing Whether Petitioner has standing to correct a jurisdictional error before the Lower Courts
20-1700 Ultratec, Inc. v. CaptionCall, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-validity retroactivity Does retroactive application of the inter partes review process violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutio…
20-8157 In Re Blake Joseph Sandlain 2021-05-27 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-circuit mandamus personal-jurisdiction Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to compel the district cour…
20-1589 Kris Kaszuba, dba Hollywood Group v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Relisted (2) 15-usc-1064 administrative-law appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit judicial-review lexmark principal-officers standing trademark trademark-law Has the Federal Circuit erred in refusing to follow this Court's Lexmark precedent, and in not applying precedent to standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064
20-1552 Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. Federal Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing Whether respondent has standing to cancel petitioner's trademark registration under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 despite prior agreement to allow registration
20-1452 Rick C. Sasso v. Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied 28-usc-1295(a)(1) 28-usc-1338(a) breach-of-contract declaratory-judgment federal-circuit federal-patent-laws jurisdiction patent-jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether this is a case 'arising under' federal patent laws under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a) within the Federal Circuit's jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1295(…
20-1394 PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-interpretation kessler-doctrine patent-law preclusion-doctrine voluntary-dismissal Whether the Federal Circuit correctly interpreted Kessler to create a freestanding preclusion doctrine
20-1380 Security People, Inc. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law retroactive-application vested-property Whether the retroactive application of inter partes review deprived Petitioner of its vested property in violation of the Due Process Clause
20-1363 Merit Medical Systems, Inc. v. Nazir Khan, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied 35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court federal-circuit patent patent-infringement rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions section-285 Whether the denial of additional attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 should be vacated if the Rule 11 sanctions are disturbed on appeal
20-1339 Richard Sowinski v. California Air Resources Board Federal Circuit 2021-03-24 Dismissed civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-circuit infringement-suit issue-preclusion patent patent-preclusion preclusion res-judicata Whether the Federal Circuit erred in creating and applying a patent-specific preclusion doctrine that bars new issues and new claims that would surviv…
20-1271 Daryl R. Blanton v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived 38-usc-5109a administrative-law clear-and-unmistakable-error clear-unmistakable-error due-process federal-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Is the Cook standard to establish CUE in a VA decision erroneously restrictive?
20-1139 Florence Jones v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-decision agency-decision-making circuit-split due-process federal-circuit judicial-review retrospective-elaboration veterans-affairs veterans-benefits When a federal agency fails contemporaneously to explain its reasons for an action, must the retrospective elaboration be of a decisionmaker with auth…
20-1126 Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo, et al. v. Unknown Defendants Massachusetts 2021-02-17 Denied 35-usc-145 35-usc-261 adverse-possession federal-circuit patent-application patent-ownership property-rights quiet-title standing-doctrine try-title uspto-procedure Does a party asserting ownership to a patent application have a right to a state (commonwealth) action like either a Massachusetts quiet action or a M…
20-1110 Sandoz Inc., et al. v. Immunex Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Amici (1) biosimilar-product double-patenting exclusivity federal-circuit invention obviousness obviousness-type-double-patenting patent patent-exclusivity patent-ownership substantial-rights May the patent owner avoid the rule against double patenting by buying all of the substantial rights to a second, later-expiring patent for essentiall…
20-1094 Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied administrative-agency administrative-law agency-determination civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review methodology procedural-fairness retroactive-application retroactive-methodology Whether the Federal Circuit erred by affirming the practice that an administrative agency may penalize the subject of an agency determination for fail…
20-1099 Gadsden Industrial Park, LLC v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied 5th-amendment court-of-federal-claims due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings takings-clause tucker-act Whether the Court should fill a statutory and jurisprudential void in Tucker Act inverse condemnation 'takings' law
20-934 Haritha Samaranayake, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act due-process evidentiary-record federal-circuit patent separation-of-powers standing statutory-jurisdiction Whether the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit exceeded its statutory jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 144
20-773 Nazir Khan, et al. v. Merit Medical Systems Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-fees civil-procedure federal-circuit federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pro-se rule-11 sanctions service-of-process Whether a motion for Rule 11 sanctions may be granted despite the movants' failure to serve the motion prior to filing
20-769 GS Cleantech Corporation, et al. v. Adkins Energy LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-12-04 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the Federal Circuit, in cases arising under the Patent Act, may depart from the uniform rule of the other Circuit Courts that an issue resolve…
20-760 In Re Libby A. Demery 2020-12-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-judge administrative-review federal-circuit merits-systems-protection-board procedural-errors supervisory-power whistleblower-protection-act Whether the Supervisory Power of this Court invoked recall of the mandate of Federal Circuit to vacate an unreviewed, Merits Systems Protection Board …
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
20-6167 Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1653 arbitration-award civil-procedure compensatory-damages declaratory-relief federal-circuit federal-circuit-court henry-schein motion-to-dismiss standing summary-affirmance Whether the unanimous decision in Henry Schein, Inc., et al. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc. that an arbitration award is not a cause of action but a fa…
20-532 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technology Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Relisted (2) claim-preclusion federal-circuit fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings patent patent-infringement perjury pro-se-plaintiff sanctions Claim-preclusion-issue
20-6091 Cherrie A. Hollie v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equitable-claims federal-circuit oral-argument standing veterans-claims Whether the Federal Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's appeal and failing to address the petitioner's constitutional due process, equal prot…
20-525 Harold E. Rutila, IV v. Department of Transportation Federal Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit hearing-waiver johnson-v-zerbst merit-systems-protection-board statutory-interpretation Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board violated Petitioner's due process rights
20-424 IYM Technologies LLC v. RPX Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response Waived appointments-clause arthrex constitutional-claim federal-circuit forfeiture inter-partes-review patent patent-law standing Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address a constitutional claim in a pending appeal despite an intervening change in law
20-364 Thomas Wilkins v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Federal Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-procedure article-iii-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-circuit inventor-correction inventorship jurisdiction patent patent-law standing uspto-procedure Whether the USITC, district court, and Federal Circuit lacked Article III jurisdiction over the patent inventorship dispute
20-355 Arctic Cat Inc. v. Bombardier Recreational Products Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-17 Dismissed Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived 35-usc-287 damages federal-circuit infringement-notice marking-statute notice-of-infringement patent-act patent-damages patent-marking statutory-interpretation willful-infringement Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that 'notified of the infringement' and 'such notice' under §287(a) refer only to communications from th…
20-167 Lilibeth Michelson v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response Waived administrative-law awol civil-rights de-novo-standard disciplinary-action due-process federal-circuit judicial-review merit-system-protection-board merit-systems-protection-board substantial-evidence Whether the Federal Circuit erred by reviewing a Merit System Protection Board Administrative Judge's decision that a medical note provided after the …
20-158 SRAM, LLC v. FOX Factory, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-103 commercial-success federal-circuit graham-v-john-deere nonobviousness objective-indicia patent-act patent-claim patent-law person-of-ordinary-skill secondary-considerations statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that, under 35 U.S.C. § 103, before a nexus can be presumed between objective indicia of nonobviousness a…
20-131 Essity Hygiene and Health AB v. Cascades Canada ULC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation discretion federal-circuit forfeiture judicial-discretion pending-cases precedential-decision scalia Whether courts have discretion to apply a precedential Appointments Clause decision in pending cases where the issue was not raised in the opening app…
20-68 Cheetah Omni LLC v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response Waived contract-interpretation contract-law federal-circuit federal-common-law implied-license license-continuation patent patent-law rodriguez-v-fdic uniquely-federal-interests Did the Federal Circuit violate Rodriguez when it invoked its own federal common law rule, superseding controlling state contract law, to hold that a …
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?
20-5022 Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Sara Glines, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process federal-circuit judicial-interpretation pleadings precedential-opinion standing Whether petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to survive a motion to dismiss
19-1451 Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-challenge federal-circuit forfeiture ksr-international-co-v-teleflex-inc obviousness patent-act patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board pending-case separation-of-powers Whether a court can refuse to entertain a constitutional, separation-of-powers challenge based on an intervening change of law on the grounds of forfe…
19-1452 Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-02 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-adjudicators administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit inferior-officers lucia-v-sec patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers Whether administrative patent judges are 'principal' or 'inferior' Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause
19-1378 Phazzer Electronics, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ex-parte-review federal-circuit patent-cancellation patent-claims patent-damages remand standing uspto-cancellation uspto-reexamination Is the Federal Circuit's affirmation of patent damages correct in light of the USPTO's cancellation of the patent claims?
19-1381 BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc., fka MonoSol RX, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-law-review agency-discretion appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review mandate-implementation patent patent-office sas-institute Does the Judiciary have authority to review a Patent Office decision refusing to implement its mandate and this Court's precedent?
19-1323 B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Facebook, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights costs due-process federal-circuit judicial-imprimatur legal-relationship mootness preclusion prevailing-party standing texas-state-teachers-association-v-garland Whether the dismissal of a case for mootness can satisfy the 'prevailing party' standard
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 Whether the Federal Circuit may affirm a judgment of non-infringement without opinion and on alternative grounds first raised by the respondents at or…
19-8167 Charles Talbert v. Blanche Carney, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment just-compensation patent takings-clause Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in holding that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment does not require th…
19-1173 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3) article-iii-courts comcast domestic-patent-infringement federal-circuit importation international-trade-commission international-trade-commission-itc mootness patent-infringement section-337 section-337-tariff-act statutory-interpretation vacatur Whether the Federal Circuit's judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission's orders
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…
19-1124 Chrimar Systems, Inc., dba CMS Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ale USA Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-agency administrative-law administrative-review article-iii-court article-iii-courts article-iii-jurisdiction damages damages-judgment executive-branch-decision federal-circuit finality finality-standard patent-infringement patent-law-finality patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit may apply a finality standard for patent cases that conflicts with the standard applied by this Court and all other circui…
19-1092 In Re TCT Mobile International Limited 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure contact-attribution due-process eastern-district-of-texas federal-circuit forum-state mandamus nonresident-defendant personal-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce unilateral-activity venue Whether the Federal Circuit erred in denying mandamus and failing to correct a district court ruling finding personal jurisdiction over a nonresident …
19-7774 Ronald Muhammad v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Seventh Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process federal-circuit federal-preemption judicial-review precedent preemption reconciliation standing Is the 7th Circuit's decision appropriate for this Court's review, and if so why must this Court hear and decide this?
19-1026 Ford Motor Company v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (4) customs-classification federal-circuit import-duties international-trade post-importation-modification precedent statutory-interpretation tariff-classification tariff-provisions vehicle-classification waiver worthington-v-robbins Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that a product's post-importation modification and use can determine its classification under a tariff he…
19-1002 Automotive Body Parts Association v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response Waived article-of-manufacture design-patent design-patents federal-circuit patent-exhaustion patent-law patent-rights repair-doctrine right-to-repair samsung-v-apple How should the article of manufacture be determined when applying the patent exhaustion and repair doctrines in design patent cases?
19-832 Apple Inc. v. VirnetX Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) apportionment apportionment-rule federal-circuit innovation license-valuation patent-damages patent-infringement patent-invalidation pending-litigation prior-licenses Whether the Federal Circuit's reliance on prior licenses to ascertain infringement damages, without satisfying apportionment rules, conflicts with thi…
19-801 Eddie N. Dela Cruz v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived administrative-law eligibility-criteria federal-circuit filipino-veterans military-service pro-veteran-canon remedial-legislation service-determination statutory-interpretation veterans-benefits wwii Whether the Federal Circuit has erred in its narrow construction of ARRA Section 1002—a remedial veteran's statute providing a benefit for Filipinos w…
19-610 Mushkin, Inc. v. Anza Technology, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-15c-relation-back clear-error conduct-transaction-occurrence federal-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice relation-back standard-of-review Whether the appropriate standard of review for a 'relation back' determination under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(c) should be
19-604 Ernest L. Francway, Jr. v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law burden-of-proof department-of-veterans-affairs due-process federal-circuit judicial-presumption medical-examination medical-examiner medical-expertise presumption-of-competency pro-claimant va-medical-examiners veterans-benefits Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the VA enjoys a presumption that its medical examiner is competent in every veterans-benefit case
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
19-584 Nuvo Pharmaceuticals (Ireland) Designated Activity Company, et al. v. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-112 enablement federal-circuit innovation patent patent-law pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-composition prior-art written-description Whether the Federal Circuit erred by holding that, whenever the prior art teaches away from a pharmaceutical composition, the written description of a…
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
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…
19-470 Darin Jones v. Department of Justice, et al. District of Columbia 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-procedure-time-limits civil-rights discrimination due-process federal-circuit federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review merit-systems-protection-board mixed-cases rule-60(b) time-bar Whether the 120 day time bar of 5 U.S.C. § 7702(e)(1)(B) is nonjurisdictional
19-445 Neology, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response Waived clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process federal-circuit filing-date notice patent patent-claim patent-validity procedural-due-process validity written-description Whether a patent can be invalidated without notifying the patent owner about the specific invalidity challenge and giving the patent owner an opportun…
19-430 Athena Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC, dba Mayo Medical Laboratories, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Amici (11) 35-usc-101 chemical-process chemical-steps diagnostic-method federal-circuit medical-diagnostics medical-innovation molecular-detection novel-molecules patent-eligibility patent-protection precedent subject-matter-eligibility Whether a new and specific method of diagnosing a medical condition is patent-eligible subject matter
19-414 Medtronic, Inc. v. Mark A. Barry Federal Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Amici (2) burden-of-proof experimental-use federal-circuit patent-law patent-law-35-usc-102-b reduction-to-practice statutory-bar supreme-court Whether a process invention is reduced to practice when all of its elements are successfully performed or must also be determined to work for a furthe…
19-418 Benoit Brookens v. Patrick Pizzella, Acting Secretary of Labor District of Columbia 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived appeal civil-rights district-court due-process federal-circuit jurisdiction merit-systems-protection-board mixed-appeal non-discrimination Whether the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction over non-discrimination issues in a mixed appeal filed within 60 days of the decision by the Merit System…
19-389 Jay Anthony Dobyns v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Amici (1) breach-of-contract civil-procedure contract-interpretation contract-law duty-of-good-faith fair-dealing federal-circuit federal-contracts federal-government good-faith good-faith-and-fair-dealing government-contracts undercover-agents Whether the duty of good faith and fair dealing implied in all contracts, including contracts between private parties and the United States, permits a…
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…
19-337 Regents of the University of Minnesota v. LSI Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Amici (3) administrative-proceeding civil-procedure federal-agency federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-validity sovereign-immunity state-university university Whether the inter partes review proceedings brought by private respondents against the University of Minnesota in this case are barred by sovereign im…
19-324 Technology Properties Limited LLC, et al. v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process standing supreme-court-precedent the-patent-act federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law prosecution-history-disclaimer separation-of-powers supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's development and application of the doctrine of 'prosecution history disclaimer' i…
19-268 Park Properties Associates, L.P., et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied breach-of-contract contract-administration contract-jurisdiction court-of-federal-claims federal-circuit federal-claims-court government-contracts privity privity-doctrine third-party-administrator tucker-act Whether the Court of Federal Claims has jurisdiction over a breach-of-contract claim against the government, where the government signs a contract tha…
19-253 Straight Path IP Group, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-law procedural-due-process summary-judgment Whether Rule 36(e) of the Federal Circuit's Rules of Procedure violates the Fifth Amendment by authorizing panels of the Federal Circuit to affirm, wi…
19-211 Time Warner Cable, Inc., et al. v. Sprint Communications Company, L.P. Federal Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Amici (1) 35-usc-112 35-usc-112a 35-usc-284 apportionment federal-circuit garretson-v-clark patent-claims patent-damages patent-infringement patent-validity reasonable-royalty written-description Whether the Federal Circuit erred by affirming a damages award based on unapportioned end-user service revenues
19-152 Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied false-advertising federal-circuit food-drug-cosmetic-act international-trade-commission lanham-act pom-wonderful-v-coca-cola tariff-act tariff-act-1930 trade-practices unfair-competition unfair-trade-practices When a manufacturer files a Lanham Act claim under the Tariff Act for competitive injuries caused by unfair trade practices, is the claim barred as a …
19-144 James Thomas Ryan v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process employment federal-circuit federal-circuit-court-of-appeals federal-employment merit-systems-protection-board notice-and-opportunity personnel-action whistleblower-protection Can the government sustain a specification without giving the employee notice?
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…
19-103 StrikeForce Technologies, Inc. v. SecureAuth Corporation Federal Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied 35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test berkheimer-v-hp federal-circuit inventive-concept patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter step-two-analysis well-understood-routine-and-conventional well-understood-routine-conventional Whether the Federal Circuit conducted the proper analysis under step two of Alice, as this Court will explain it, should certiorari be granted in Berk…
19-58 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
19-53 Branded LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived descriptive-marks federal-circuit generic-marks lanham-act principal-register trademark-descriptive trademark-descriptiveness trademark-distinctiveness trademark-generic trademark-genericness trademark-infringement trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration trademark-trial-and-appeal-board Whether the Federal Circuit test impermissibly categorizes 'descriptive' marks as unprotectable 'generic' marks, on the basis of the mark describing t…
19-48 B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied bose disgorgement federal-circuit fraud fraud-standard lanham-act lanham-act-fraud patent rule-59-motion standard-of-review therasense trademark trademark-law uspto willfulness Whether the established precedent by the Federal Circuit for the determination of fraud on the USPTO should be adopted as the proper standard for all …
19-43 Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 alice-standard alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law patent-litigation rule-36-affirmance section-101 Has the Federal Circuit correctly implemented the standards for patent eligibility set forth in 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice v. CLS Bank?
18-1549 Zimmer, Inc., et al. v. Stryker Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied enhanced-damages federal-circuit halo-v-pulse objective-recklessness patent-damages patent-law seagate-test subjective-intent willful-infringement willfulness Whether enhanced patent damages can be awarded without regard to whether there was an objectively high risk of infringement based on a finding of negl…
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 Whether the Federal Circuit has improperly interpreted patent eligibility standards under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a manner inconsistent with Supreme Court …
18A1266 Straight Path IP Group, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete appellate-review certiorari federal-circuit jurisdictional-issue patent-law time-extension Whether the Federal Circuit's panel and en banc decisions in a patent-related dispute between Straight Path IP Group and technology companies raise si…
18A1269 Aldon Smith v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-06-05 Presumed Complete attorney-fees buckhannon-doctrine equal-access-to-justice federal-circuit judicial-review tactical-mooting Whether the Equal Access to Justice Act permits attorney's fees when a plaintiff achieves a 'catalyst' legal change without a formal judicial judgment
18A1246 Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind v. PDS Consultants, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-05-31 Presumed Complete certiorari federal-circuit government-contract irreparable-harm judicial-review stay-pending-appeal Whether the Federal Circuit improperly interpreted the standard for granting a stay pending appeal in a government contract dispute
18A1232 Time Warner Cable, Inc., et al. v. Sprint Communications Company, L.P. Federal Circuit 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete apportionment federal-circuit jury-verdicts patent-damages patent-infringement written-description Whether the Federal Circuit improperly deviated from longstanding Supreme Court precedents on patent damages apportionment by authorizing unapportione…
18-1474 Sunoco, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1) congressional-intent excise-tax federal-circuit renewable-fuels statutory-interpretation tax-credits tax-incentives tax-liability tax-system Whether the Federal Circuit properly held that tax credits operate as a reduction of tax liability rather than as a payment of taxes owed
18-1448 Glasswall Solutions Limited, et al. v. Clearswift Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied 35-usc-101 berkheimer berkheimer-standard conclusory-legal-assertions federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-infringement patent-specification pleading presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 twombly Whether the claimed invention improves computer function by eliminating a then-conventional method
18-1418 Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., et al. v. Akorn, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied 35-usc-144 federal-circuit mandate non-obviousness obviousness-standard opinion patent-appeal patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board rule-36 statutory-interpretation Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144's directive that the Federal Circuit shall issue ... its mandate and opinion' in all appeals from the Patent and Trademark Off…
18-1397 Prism Technologies LLC v. Sprint Spectrum L.P., dba Sprint PCS Federal Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdiction-scope mandate-rule patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-invalidity retroactive-expansion Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals may retroactively expand the scope of its appellate jurisdiction to invalidate patent claims under 35 U.S…
18-1343 Princeton Digital Image Corporation v. Adobe Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure consent-final-judgment consent-judgment cross-appeal federal-circuit final-judgment interlocutory-ruling jurisdictional-dismissal standing third-circuit Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with a decision of the Third Circuit, that it may vacate a district court's consent final judgme…
18-8930 Amy Rebecca Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-1295 28-usc-1338 attorney-misconduct conflicts-of-law constitutional-access federal-circuit patent-appeal-jurisdiction patent-appeals patent-conflicts-of-interest patent-damages patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-statutes pro-se-litigation Whether the Second Circuit was void of jurisdiction to adjudicate the instant appeal and improperly defied US patent statutes and Federal Circuit law
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…
18-1170 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) antitrust antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud regional-circuits sherman-act subject-matter-jurisdiction walker-process Appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process antitrust claims involving patent fraud lies in the regional circuits, not the Federal Circuit
18-1144 Natural Alternatives International, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-deference agency-guidance federal-circuit intellectual-property judicial-review patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeals-board priority property-law property-rights trips Did the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit err in analyzing rulings by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board
18-1114 TS Patents LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 ashcroft-v-iqbal claim-dismissal federal-circuit novel-improvements novel-invention novel-technical-improvements patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-infringement patent-presumption patent-validity presumption-of-validity routine-and-conventional rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 technical-improvements Can a court dismiss a patent infringement complaint under Rule 12(b)(6), for a lack of patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. $101, when the complaint and…
18-1058 Janice Smets v. Heather Wilson, Secretary of the Air Force Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-exhaustion civil-rights civil-servant due-process employment federal-circuit federal-courts mixed-case mspb non-jurisdiction summary-judgment title-vii When a civil servant changes a claim to a 'mixed case' during the District Court's non-hearing proceedings and she files to remand based on non-jurisd…
18-1028 Moda Health Plan, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-02-06 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Relisted (2) appropriations appropriations-riders bait-and-switch federal-circuit government-contracts government-obligation health-care health-exchanges health-insurance insurance statutory-commitment statutory-interpretation statutory-promise takings Whether Congress can evade its unambiguous statutory promise to pay health insurers for losses already incurred simply by enacting appropriations ride…
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
18-899 Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, et al. v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied administrative-law administrative-proceeding federal-circuit indian-tribe inter-partes-review patent-challenge patent-law patent-office patent-trial-and-appeal-board sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereign-immunity Whether inter partes review before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is the type of proceeding in which tribal sovereign immunity may be asserted
18-849 HTC Corporation v. 3G Licensing, S.A., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1391 28-usc-1400b federal-circuit foreign-defendant patent-infringement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute Whether an atextual 'foreign defendant' exception exists to 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b)
18-801 Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. NantKwest, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-12-21 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) 35-usc-145 administrative-law civil-action civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-act patent-application patent-law personnel-expenses standing statutory-interpretation uspto USPTO-litigation Whether the phrase '[a]ll the expenses of the proceedings' in 35 U.S.C. 145 encompasses the personnel expenses the USPTO incurs when its employees, in…
18-779 Power Integrations Inc. v. Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied apportionment customer-demand entire-market-value-rule federal-circuit patent-damages patent-infringement patent-law patent-litigation willful-infringement Whether a plaintiff that proves that a patented feature creates the basis for customer demand for infringing products is entitled to patent damages ba…
18-712 Jerry Artrip v. Ball Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied amendment civil-procedure claim-dismissal complaint-amendment district-court federal-circuit judicial-review patent patent-infringement standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's patent infringeme…
18-692 Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. UCB, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived 35-usc-103 double-patenting federal-circuit graham-factors graham-v-john-deere invention-disclosure lead-compound-test obviousness patent-eligibility patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-double-patenting patent-validity prior-art Whether a patentee may obtain a second patent on the same invention actually covered by a former patent to the same patentee
18-600 Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc., fka Intersil Corporation Federal Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) 35-usc-271 commercial-transactions extraterritoriality federal-circuit infringement international-relations offer-to-sell patent patent-infringement patent-law statutory-interpretation united-states-code venue Whether an 'offer to sell' under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a) occurs where the offer is made or where the proposed sale will take place
18-549 Voter Verified, Inc. v. Election Systems & Software LLC Federal Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied 35-usc-101 bilski-v-kappos collateral-estoppel declaratory-judgment federal-circuit issue-preclusion method-claims patent-infringement patent-validity res-judicata voting-method Whether the Federal Circuit erred in deciding that patent claims for a method of voting are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a second action for paten…
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 Whether the Federal Circuit erred and contradicted a century of this Court's licensing precedent in holding that implied license rights to a patent ar…
18-408 Kohn Law Group, Inc. v. Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Amici (2) appellate-review appellate-review-standard armour-standard armour-v-united-states civil-contempt civil-contempt-standard consent-decree district-court-discretion federal-circuit fifth-circuit injunction-interpretation interpleader legal-standard mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper-co non-consent-order What is the standard for judging allegations of civil contempt of an injunction or other disputed order, as distinct from a consent decree?
18-303 Henryk Oleksy v. General Electric Company Federal Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-procedure counterclaim-dismissal court-precedent due-process federal-circuit finality finality-of-judgment judgment-finality patent patent-law precedent supervisory-power Whether district court judgment was final despite lack of express dismissal of invalidity counterclaim
18-314 Capella Photonics, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 35-usc-144 appellate-review due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure judicial-review mandamus patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of routinely issuing judgments without opinions in appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates 35 U…
18-5825 Eric Lamont Johnson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit international-trade-commission judicial-review patent patent-infringement standing Whether the ITC's decision to decline to adjudicate a patent infringement claim was an abuse of discretion
18-252 Real Estate Alliance Ltd. v. Move, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Relisted (2) 35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test alice-v-cls-bank computer-user-interface fact-finding federal-circuit inventive-concept patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-law well-understood-routine-and-conventional Whether an ordered combination of elements in a patent claim is 'well-understood, routine and conventional' to a skilled artisan in the relevant field…
18-207 George Duggan v. Department of Defense Ninth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense agency-burden clear-and-convincing-evidence federal-circuit personnel-actions prima-facie prima-facie-retaliation protected-disclosures retaliation whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-enhancement-act Whether after a prima facie retaliation for whistleblowing has been found under the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012, does the Agency'…
18-127 Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 35-usc-112 biotechnology enablement federal-circuit innovation patent-law possession statutory-interpretation written-description Whether the standard for determining the adequacy of the 'written description of the invention' should be as the statute says—that the description mus…
18-109 Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Illumina, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied CVSGAmici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-102 35-usc-119 disclosure federal-circuit filing-date patent patent-application patent-law patent-prior-art prior-art priority subject-matter Unclaimed disclosures in a published patent application and an earlier application it relies on for priority enter the public domain and thus become p…
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 Whether the Federal Circuit's decision affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's final written decisions of the partially instituted inter partes …
18-77 Advanced Video Technologies LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure federal-circuit involuntary-plaintiff joinder patent patent-law rule-19 standing supreme-court Did the Federal Circuit properly create an exception to Rule 19 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in patent law, requiring a dismissal of a case…
18-38 Illya Erwin v. Department of the Army Federal Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5-cfr-315-804 5-usc-1221 5-usc-2302 administrative-law civil-rights due-process federal-circuit personnel-action probationary-employee prohibited-personnel-practice termination-defense whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether the agency can claim it would have taken the same personnel action absent whistleblower disclosure based on grounds not stated in the terminat…
18-21 Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-precedent circuit-courts civil-procedure due-process factual-stipulation federal-circuit judicial-procedure legal-binding noninfringement patent-infringement precedent stipulation Whether the Federal Circuit may ignore a factual stipulation, contrary to this Court's precedent, and decisions of numerous circuit courts, holding th…