judicial-exceptions

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-505 Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-10-23 Denied Response Waived judicial-exceptions machine-learning patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption section-101 Whether the Federal Circuit's approach to patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 improperly interprets judicial exceptions to patent-eligible subjec…
23-7730 Thomas Richardson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-exceptions legal-precedent standing supreme-court-authority Question not identified.
23-401 Michael Carey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied circuit-conflict federal-courts judge-made-exceptions judicial-exceptions legal-remedy state-courts statutory-interpretation suppression-provisions wiretap-act Whether courts lack power to fashion judge-made exceptions to the exceptionless suppression provisions of the Wiretap Act
21-1281 Interactive Wearables, LLC v. Polar Electro Oy, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction enablement judicial-exceptions legal-standard patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 two-step-framework What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is 'directed to' a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two…
21-209 Huping Hu, et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 intellectual-property judicial-exceptions natural-phenomenon operability-standard patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art quantum-entanglement reproducibility-of-results scientific-discovery section-101 Whether the PTO's standards for determining operability under § 101 are biased against groundbreaking inventions
20-891 American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied CVSGAmici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) 35-usc-101 alice-v-cls claim-construction judicial-exception judicial-exceptions patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-law standard-of-review two-step-framework What is the appropriate standard for determining patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101?
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…
18-1088 Kamran Asghari-Kamrani, et al. v. United Services Automobile Association Federal Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 constitutional-grant constitutional-power judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-test Whether the Court's 'judicial exceptions' test for patent eligibility is unconstitutional and deviates from the plain language of Section 101 of the P…