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24-47 Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corporation-v-cls-bank innovation judicial-interpretation patent patent-eligibility patent-law return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service section-101 Whether the claimed invention is ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to 35 U.S.C. §101
23-1298 United Therapeutics Corporation v. Liquidia Technologies, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law chevron chevron-deference civil-procedure inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-review standing statutory-interpretation Whether the IPR statute and SAS require the Federal Circuit to review de novo, or only for an abuse of discretion, the PTO's reliance on new grounds a…
23-7687 Ashley Reneé Cagle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Question not identified
23-1231 Cellect, LLC v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Amici (11) equitable-doctrine good-faith-procurement investment-backed-expectations judicial-doctrine obviousness-type-double-patenting patent patent-invalidation patent-term-adjustment statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions Whether a patent procured in good faith can be invalidated on the ground that statutory Patent Term Adjustment, which requires lengthening a patent's …
23-7442 Michael P. Farley v. Anthony Wills Seventh Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
23-7337 In Re Lorenza Gerald Ferebee, Jr. 2024-04-29 Dismissed IFP case-number civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-filing patent petition standing takings transfer Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
23-7233 Chikezie Ottah v. National Grid Federal Circuit 2024-04-16 Denied IFP 35-USC-101 civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-review due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure patent standing statutory-provisions takings writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of patent-eligibility under 35-USC-101
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
23-7219 Ferrill Joseph Volpicelli v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2024-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Question not identified
23-7135 Antonio Benjamin Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights compelled-testimony constitutional-law constitutional-review due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the AIA's statutory scheme for post-grant patent review violates the Constitution's separation of powers and due process protections
23-1001 Larry Golden v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process patent race standing Whether the District and Appellate Courts' denial of Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial against a White-Owned Foreign Corporation th…
23-6821 Enrique Zacarias Diaz v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
23-904 Larry Golden v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment due-process government-appropriation just-compensation patent takings Is it a violation of procedural due process to order the Patent Owner to prove the Government directly infringed Patent Owner's patents under 28 U.S.C…
23-6729 Timothy Paul Bush v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred in denying Combadke's writ of certiorari
23-6628 Robert E. Sindaco v. Florida Florida 2024-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings unidentified-issue Whether the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petition and denying the motion for rehearing
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…
23-6462 Arthur Harris v. New Rez, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure patent separation-of-powers standing supreme-court takings writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court's decision against the petitioner is unconstitutional and a violation of the United States Constitution
23-740 Larry Golden v. Qualcomm, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied Relisted (2) 7th-amendment case-document civil-rights court-filing document-type due-process legal-document legal-proceeding patent standing takings Is a Black/African American inventor's right to sue in federal court over patent infringement being denied due to systemic racism?
23-6231 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-document civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing due-process judicial-review legal-petition patent procedural-matter standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
23-6222 Charles F. Johnson, Jr. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
23-6198 William Plummer v. Wellpath, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech incarceration medical-parole patent prisoner-rights standing state-law Whether the lower court erred in construing the patent claims at issue
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
23-494 MacNeil IP LLC v. Yita LLC Federal Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law agency-deference appellate-procedure fact-finding judicial-review patent patent-law remand standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit erred in substituting its own findings of fact for those of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board instead of remanding as requ…
23-5878 Andrew J. Johnston v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Question not identified
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…
23-5705 Michael Sampson v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process electric-vehicle federal-action government-misconduct patent patent-pending standing takings technology-dispute USPTO Will the Supreme Court seek truth for the sake of humanity and compel the U.S.D.C. (E.D. Texas) to make available the papers of case no. G122-CV-BY?
23-299 ATM Shafiqul Khalid v. Citrix Systems, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-interpretation copyright due-process exclusive-right inventor-protection patent patent-rights standing state-action statutory-interpretation takings Whether the exclusive Right in inventions as written in the Constitution is a fundamental Right or Constitutional privilege
23-5612 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law copyright due-process judicial-review legal-precedent patent property-rights statutory-interpretation trademark Whether the petitioner has a legal right to claim ownership of everything in the world and all data and copyrights globally
23-241 Joe Salazar v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied claim-construction due-process fifth-amendment investment-backed-expectations judicial-taking patent patent-rights property-rights takings takings-clause Does the Federal Circuit Panel's unforeseeable and unjustifiable construction of the petitioner's patent claim, disrupting the petitioner's legitimate…
23-230 Personalized Media Communication, LLC v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response Waived docket-management due-process equitable-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-office patent-prosecution patent-validity prosecution-laches statutory-deadlines Whether prosecution laches can be based on an applicant's prosecution of a patent application in compliance with the PTO's docket-management decisions
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
23-190 Probir K. Bondyopadhyay v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment government-liability jurisdictional-conflict patent patent-claim perjury sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation takings Can the USCFC dismiss a Fifth Amendment property claim arising from the admitted unauthorized use of a patented U.S. invention by the U.S.A.?
23-5408 James Lee Ballard v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
23-135 Intel Corporation, et al. v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Amici (3) administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-and-trademark-office patent-review statutory-interpretation Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) precludes review of PTO rules setting standards governing IPR institution decisions
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?
23-5327 In Re Titus Lee Radcliff 2023-08-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Alice test for patent eligibility under 35 USC 101
22-7746 Gary Leon Webster v. Institute of Virology Eighth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the petitioner's claims were barred by the statute of limitations
22-7388 Chandel S. Dirkans v. Illinois Illinois 2023-04-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for evaluating a petition for writ of certiorari
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
22-7044 In Re Jordan Powell 2023-03-21 Denied IFP administrative-law antitrust disaster-loan due-process economic-injury eidl loan-calculation patent sba sba-authority Whether the SBA had authority to apply an earlier loan calculation methodology to a longstanding increase request
22-919 Stephen Thaler v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived artificial-intelligence innovation-rights invention inventor inventor-definition patent patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law standing statutory-interpretation Does the Patent Act categorically restrict the statutory term 'inventor' to human beings alone?
22-819 Franz Wakefield, dba CoolTVNetwork.com v. Blackboard, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard magistrate-judge markman-test patent patent-validity standing statutory-interpretation Whether a Magistrate Judge can invalidate a patent using a preponderance of the evidence standard and failing to follow the Markman test
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 …
22-784 Aaron G. Filler v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Response Waived amendment-rights casualty-loss civil-rights constitutional-taking due-process patent patent-protection patent-seizure standing state-liability takings tax-deduction Whether a State's knowing, intentional, and malicious seizure and production of goods protected by a U.S. patent creates Vth or XIVth Amendment liabil…
22-6679 Debra Sauer v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-dismissal legal-claims ninth-circuit patent standing takings Whether the Aveand and the Ut Cieecit decisions conflict with the Circuit decision which dismissed my case?
22-6594 James Michael Fayed v. Oak Smith, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the Petitioner's claims were properly exhausted and considered by the lower courts
22-544 Innovation Sciences, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-102 anticipation anticipatory-reference clear-and-convincing clear-and-convincing-evidence invention patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity prior-art Whether an inference that a device that could have existed before the invention thereof by an inventor is properly treated as an anticipatory referenc…
22-5945 Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the legal issues being raised
22-381 Ashot Yegiazaryan, aka Ashot Egiazaryan v. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-24 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) business-reputation civil-rico court-judgment domestic-injury foreign-injury foreign-plaintiff intangible-property legal-test patent Does a foreign plaintiff state a cognizable civil RICO claim when it suffers an injury to intangible property, and if so, under what circumstances
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…
22-5382 Tyrone Hurt v. Alexander Williams, Jr. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied IFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the patent statute
22-5323 Douglas Stephenson v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights patent procedural-due-process standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its procedural-due-process, civil-rights, standing, takings, patent, administrative-law analysis
22-5299 Michael G. Peters v. Andrew S. Hanen Fifth Circuit 2022-08-05 Dismissed IFP 35-usc-101 civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's denial of patent applications for inventions involving artificial intelligence violates the Patent Act …
22-5222 Travis Lee Combs v. Washington Washington 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process individual-rights judicial-review legal-standard patent standing takings Unsure
22-5179 Jon Christopher Stoune v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance patent section-2255 standing takings Should the Court grant a Certificate of Appealability
22-53 Aaron G. Filler, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-07-20 Denied Response Waived assignment-of-claims assignment-of-claims-act civil-procedure fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation patent patent-infringement patent-rights takings Can the Assignment of Claims Act remove the Fifth Amendment right to Just Compensation from the party with the right to exclude in a patent infringeme…
22-11 SawStop Holding LLC v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 35-usc-102 35-usc-103 judicial-authority non-statutory-double-patenting patent patent-eligibility patent-law statutory-interpretation ultra-vires Does the judiciary have the authority to require a patent applicant to meet a condition for patentability not required by the Patent Act?
21-8185 Michael Andrew Johnson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiffs' claims for lack of standing
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
21-1527 CustomPlay, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-rights patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation trademark Whether the PTO violated the AIA by delegating the Director's responsibility to the PTAB
21-7789 Angel Osornio v. Arizona Arizona 2022-05-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal issues
21-7564 Armstead Kieffer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech patent sixth-amendment standing takings Whether the unconstitutionally vague language, struck down by the Court in 185 OG, violates 35 USC 112(b)
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
21-7337 In Re Aurlieas D. McClarty 2022-03-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-7340 Joseph Louis Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process judicial-review legislative-intent patent sentencing standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a petitioner's false carrier letter must be considered as the ultimate basis of a defendant's commission of a crime under 35 U.S.C. 35530
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…
21-6892 Jabari J. Johnson v. Janet Smith, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to review the District Court's dismissal of the petitioners' claims
21-1005 Heat On-The-Fly, LLC, et al. v. Energy Heating, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-285 attorney-fees civil-procedure district-court-discretion exceptional-case litigation-misconduct patent patent-litigation Must a district court consider litigation misconduct, or lack thereof, in determining whether a case is exceptional under 35 U.S.C. § 285?
21-893 Apotex Inc., et al. v. Cephalon, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied 35-usc-103 drug-reformulation inventive-process ksr-v-teleflex motivation motivation-to-combine obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-law person-of-ordinary-skill prior-art Whether claimed inventions involving reformulating and administering an old drug in ways that are no better than prior techniques, and which had been …
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…
21-819 Baxter Corporation Englewood v. Becton, Dickinson and Company Federal Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act expert-testimony inter-partes-review ordinary-remand-rule patent patent-challenge prior-art remand-rule statutory-interpretation Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of allowing IPR petitioners to rely on evidence other than patents and printed publications to fill in gaps in …
21-757 Amgen Inc., et al. v. Sanofi, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-11-22 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (33)Response RequestedRelisted (4) 35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-scope enablement enablement-requirement invention-disclosure judicial-review patent patent-law statutory-interpretation undue-experimentation written-description Whether enablement is a question of fact or law
21-746 Apple Inc. v. Qualcomm Incorporated Federal Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (2) article-iii civil-procedure civil-rights due-process inter-partes-review license-agreement patent patent-challenge patent-validity standing takings Whether a licensee has Article III standing to challenge the validity of a patent covered by a license agreement that covers multiple patents
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…
21-6040 Louis Holger v. State of Alaska, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) denial of patent applications violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
21-5927 In Re Lindsey Orr 2021-10-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-authorization detention-authority due-process federal-law first-time-offender legislative-intent patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Did the Thomas Act have legislative authorization to generate by means of implementation their holding that stashing FAZCO's towards first time offend…
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…
21-438 Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review claim-construction infringement jury-trial jury-verdict patent patent-law seventh-amendment sua-sponte Whether the Seventh Amendment allows the Federal Circuit to reverse a jury verdict based on a sua sponte new claim construction
21-406 Impax Laboratories, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Amici (1) antitrust antitrust-law competition-law patent patent-infringement patent-litigation patent-settlement patent-strength patent-validity reverse-payment Whether the presence of a reverse-payment that exceeds a patentee's saved-litigation-costs and the value-of-services-provided by a patent-challenger s…
21-413 Infinity Computer Products, Inc. v. Oki Data Americas, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-112 claim-construction claim-interpretation definiteness-standard expert-testimony indefiniteness patent patent-law patent-specification person-skilled-in-the-art prosecution-history Whether a patent claim is indefinite under § 112, ¶ 2, if conflicting positions about a claim term arise during the patent prosecution process, even i…
21-364 Sarada Mohapatra v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 alice-doctrine alice-mayo citizen-inventors computer-implemented-invention mayo-framework non-preemptive-solution patent patent-eligibility practical-solutions preemption process-improvement Whether computer-based process improvement patent applications for inventions by Citizen Inventors — characterized by narrow and well-defined practica…
21-5619 Jaime Luevano v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Due Process Clause to the petitioner's claims
21-5585 Willie Lee Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing Whether the lower courts misinterpreted the 1994 amended version of Title 35 U.S.C. § 101
21-5520 Brunson Roberts v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process individual-liberty judicial-review legal-precedent patent standing statutory-interpretation Does a district court abuse its discretion when it upholds and does not reconsider 35 U.S.C. 101 factors for eligibility, and does a district court ab…
21-249 Probir Kumar Bondyopadhyay v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-claims government-taking invention-compensation national-defense patent patent-rights standing takings Whether the Jeffersonian claim of an original creature of the U.S. Constitution against the United States under Article 1 Section 8 Clause 8 arising o…
21-193 Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response Waived accessibility patent patent-publication patent-statute printed-publication prior-art public-accessibility software software-disclosure trade-secret Can a document qualify as a printed publication if it is stored on a password-protected website, not accessible to the public, and available only to c…
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
21-118 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 …
21-5199 Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
21-5033 Relonzo Phillips v. Melody M. Maddox, Sheriff, Dekalb County, Georgia Georgia 2021-07-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-economy malicious-prosecution patent pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing state-law-claims summary-judgment takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for standing, due-process, civil-rights, takings, patent, civil-procedure
20-8456 In Re Michael Alonza Rufus 2021-06-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-8464 Alberto Solar-Somohano v. The Coca-Cola Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointment-clause article-i congressional-intent constitutional constitutional-challenge enrolled-bill enrolled-bill-doctrine field-v-clark judicial-review patent patent-trademark-judges Whether Arthrex a hoax does not control be foreclosed from deciding appointment clause problem instead is Field v. Clark 143 US 649 (1892) that contro…
20-8406 Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-1760 iLife Technologies, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-06-17 Denied 35-usc-101 claim-interpretation judicial-framework legal-standard patent patent-claim patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standard What is the appropriate standard for determining patent-eligibility under 35 USC 101?
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…
20-1612 Monib Zirvi, et al. v. Jay T. Flatley, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constructive-notice fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice intellectual-property misappropriation patent pleading-stage standing storm-warnings trade-secret trade-secret-misappropriation Did the Second Circuit err in holding, that under the 'inquiry notice' standard applicable to trade secret misappropriation claims where plaintiff all…
20-1604 Biogen MA Inc. v. EMD Serono, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied anticipation claim-construction incentives medical-treatment method-of-treatment novelty patent patent-law patent-validity prior-art recombinant-protein Whether courts may disregard the express claim term 'recombinant' so as to render a method-of-treatment patent anticipated—and thus invalid—in light o…
20-8022 Tillman T. Henderson v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Question not identified
20-1545 TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 Federal Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied 35-usc-271 claim-construction industry-standard infringement judicial-precedent literal-infringement patent patent-infringement statutory-interpretation Whether a patentee may prove literal infringement by relying solely on the essentiality of its patent to an industry standard
20-7815 Sylvester O. Barbee v. Jason Boyd, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-7807 Woodrow Andrew Clark v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claims-assessment constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-standard patent procedural-merit reasonable-jurists standing takings Whether reasonable jurists would find the District Court's assessment of Claims one and two debatable or wrong? Or that the issues presented are adequ…
20-1412 NetSoc, LLC v. Match Group, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied abstract-idea civil-rights computer-implemented-invention due-process free-speech patent patent-eligibility rating-system social-network standing takings technological-innovation Is the addition of a network computer implemented social network, with a novel and unconventional rating system, to a method of organizing human activ…
20-1396 Walter A. Tormasi v. Western Digital Corporation Federal Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection inmate-access patent patent-rights property-rights standing state-agencies takings Does imprisonment forfeit a patent owner's right not to be deprived of personal property without due process of law and render a person wholly without…
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…
20-1342 In Re Titus L. Radcliff 2021-03-24 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-7519 Angadbir Singh Salwan v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstract-idea administrative-law civil-rights due-process intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent patent-law standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether the lower courts' rulings are tainted by corruption financed by China's Communist party, and whether the Supreme Court should reverse the CAFC…
20-1261 Wi-LAN, Inc., et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer judicial-review patent patent-office principal-officer separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation uspto Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-7403 Richard Luna v. Texas Texas 2021-03-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-7375 Christopher Wooten v. Stan Parker, Sheriff, Howard County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the OSDC, AE, and Txe, violated the 7th Amendment right to a jury trial by allowing a special master to make findings of fact and conclusions …
20-7398 Khemall Jokhoo v. Lola Velaquez-Aguilu, Assistant United States Attorney Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-1232 IBSA Institut Biochimique, S. A., et al. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response Waived foreign-inventors foreign-language indefiniteness national-treatment patent patent-indefiniteness patent-priority patent-prosecution priority-date trips-agreement Whether, pursuant to the United States' obligations under the TRIPS Agreement, codified at 19 U.S.C. § 3511, a court construing the claims of a U.S. p…
20-1211 SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. Adobe, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response Waived 1404(a) civil-procedure discovery district-court-discretion federal-circuit-review mandamus patent patent-litigation transfer venue venue-transfer Whether the Federal Circuit wrongly overruled a district court judge's discretionary 1404(a) transfer decision
20-7267 Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-112 court-of-appeals enablement invention patent prior-art Whether the court of appeals erred in finding that the claimed invention meets the enablement requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112
20-1145 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-02-22 Denied appointments-clause constitutional-violations contract-clause due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-inquiry patent patent-rights separation-of-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether Justice Barrett must accept and grant this Emergency Petition for Writ of Mandamus
20-1119 Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-103 graham-factors graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias innovation innovation-protection nonobviousness-indicia objective-indicia obviousness-standard patent patent-law Whether a court must consider objective indicia of nonobviousness together with the other factors bearing on an obviousness challenge before making an…
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…
20-1112 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-02-12 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law contract-clause due-process equal-protection government-contracts patent patent-law separation-of-powers stare-decisis Whether Justice Barrett must enforce the Supreme Court's stare decisis precedents prohibiting repudiation of government-issued patent grants
20-6961 Christopher Scott Pfoff v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Question not identified.
20-1003 Christy, Inc. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived compensation government-fees inter-partes-review patent patent-exaction patent-invalidation post-grant-review private-property property-rights takings-clause When a duly-issued patent is invalidated through a post-grant review process (such as an IPR), must compensation be paid under the Takings Clause?
20-932 Bobby L. Franklin v. D. J. Laughlin, et al. Nevada 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-fraud patent patent-rights quiet-title standing stare-decisis takings Has Petitioner Franklin's existing stare-decisis patent-rights been addressed or examined in any judiciary court to be enjoined from NRS-40.010-et-seg…
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
20-892 Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Illumina, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-01-05 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) and analyzing the separated DNA for diagnostic pu using well-known laboratory techniques is unpaten 35-usc-101 abstract-ideas diagnostic diagnostic-method dna dna-analysis dna-fragments laboratory-techniques myriad-decision myriad-doctrine natural-phenomena patent patent-eligibility section-101 Whether a patent that claims nothing more than a method for separating smaller DNA fragments from larger ones, and analyzing the separated DNA for dia…
20-6747 Gregory K. Clinton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Question not identified
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…
20-6470 Frederick Demond Wilson v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-6441 David O. Keel v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court of appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-623 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process jurisdictional-dispute patent patent-infringement pro-se-litigant standing takings writ-of-certiorari Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Writ of Certiorari under the All Writs Act against the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or against the …
20-624 Larry Golden v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process intellectual-property patent patent-rights pleading-standards pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process seventh-amendment standing Is it a question of law for the District Court and/or the Appeals Court judges to unjustly violate a Pro Se litigant's procedural due process or viola…
20-6126 Edward Jones v. Candace Edward, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied IFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit erred in its interpretation and application of 35 U.S.C. § 101 in this case
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
20-6011 Randy Williams v. American International Group, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-5982 Elmo Fortenberry v. Texas Board of Pardons and Parole, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-440 Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (2) 35-usc-282 assignor-estoppel due-process judicial-doctrine patent patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-law statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant in a patent infringement action who assigned the patent, or is in privity with an assignor of the patent, may have a defense of in…
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
20-414 Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-officers patent separation-of-powers tenure-protections Whether administrative patent judges are principal or inferior officers under the Appointments Clause
20-5769 Bradley Beauchamp v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-386 Joseph D. Gilberti v. Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors, et al. District of Columbia 2020-09-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-reserve government-concealment judicial-misconduct national-defense-resource pandemic-conspiracy patent resource-suppression standing takings Why did the lower Court hide an endless underground Water Supply and Medicine resource and call it Patently Insubstantia
20-380 Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC, et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-112a enablement genus-claim genus-claims patent patent-law pharmaceutical-innovation pharmaceuticals statutory-interpretation written-description Whether the Federal Circuit's genus-claim-specific enablement rule and separate 'possession' requirement are consistent with 35 U.S.C. § 112(a)
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
20-333 Bozeman Financial LLC v. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) america-invents-act federal-government federal-reserve-banks federal-reserve-system government-entity patent patent-review post-issuance-review return-mail-decision return-mail-v-usps standing Whether the regional Federal Reserve Banks are distinct from the Federal Government and qualify as 'persons' permitted to seek post-issuance patent re…
20-314 RPM International Inc., et al. v. Alan Stuart, Trustee for the Cecil G. Stuart and Donna M. Stuart Revocable Living Trust Agreement, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-10 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (3) administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law judicial-procedure officer-status patent patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing us-constitution-article-ii Whether the court of appeals erred by vacating and remanding the case based on an Appointments Clause challenge
20-5634 Stephen F. Snow v. California California 2020-09-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-5547 Roger Lee Baker, Jr. v. Magistrate Court of Georgia, Talbot County Georgia 2020-08-31 Denied IFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings Whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's denial of a patent application for an invention that was previously disclosed to the public violates th…
20-228 ESIP Series 2, LLC v. Puzhen Life USA, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response Waived administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause arbitrary-and-capricious art-iii-court due-process inter-partes-review patent statutory-jurisdiction thryv-precedent Whether Board decisions that are arbitrary and capricious, exceed the Board's statutory jurisdiction from the start, and are made by administrative pa…
20-230 Donald L. Baker v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-law agency-misconduct civil-rights due-process judicial-notice judicial-review patent patent-law pro-se-litigation retaliation Whether U.S. Agencies may commit fraudulent acts to obstruct and delay applications
20-5503 Kevin L. Martin v. Christopher Nicholson Seventh Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred when it held that the plaintiff's claims were barred because the court lacked jurisdiction to consider the plaintiff's claims
20-5414 Aimee Lewis v. Seventh Circuit Court, South Dakota Unified Judicial System, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims
20-5306 Phillip L. Horrell v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
20-5198 Franklin C. Smith v. Nurse Mayfield, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-29 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
20-88 HZNP Finance Limited, et al. v. Actavis Laboratories UT, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-112 claim-construction consisting-essentially-of nautilus-v-biosig patent patent-act patent-claim patent-validity reasonable-certainty statutory-interpretation transitional-phrase Whether the 'basic and novel properties' identified in connection with a patent claim's transitional phrase 'consisting essentially of' must independe…
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?
19-1475 Duke University v. Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied 35-usc-314 administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause due-process forfeiture inter-partes-review patent patent-law standing statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address an Appointments Clause violation in a pending appeal despite an intervening chan…
19-1458 Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-07-06 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-judges administrative-law administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause congress due-process executive-review independence judicial-remedy patent separation-of-powers severance tenure tenure-protection Whether the court of appeals' severance remedy is consistent with congressional intent, where Congress has long considered tenure protections essentia…
19-1434 United States v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-29 Judgment Issued Amici (2)Relisted (2) administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause constitutional-law inferior-officer inferior-officers patent patent-and-trademark-office principal-officer principal-officers standing uspto Whether administrative patent judges are principal officers under the Appointments Clause
19-8844 Louis A. Piccone v. United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bar-disciplinary-proceedings brady-v-maryland delegated-authority due-process federal-regulations government-investigation material-exculpatory-information patent patent-and-trademark-office professional-conduct Are attorneys entitled to material exculpatory information in bar disciplinary proceedings?
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?
19-8707 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-15 Dismissed IFP america-invents-act constitution-clause constitutional-prohibition contract-clause due-process government-grants patent patent-rights separation-of-powers standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the USPTO/PTAB and Federal Circuit were aware of the prohibition of the Constitution against repudiating Government-issued contract grants
19-8708 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Presidio Bank Federal Circuit 2020-06-15 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-ethics patent patent-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's duty to enforce its Governing Precedents
19-1351 Ameranth, Inc. v. Domino's Pizza, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-resolution patent pretrial-order property-rights summary-judgment Does the sua sponte judicial resolution on summary judgment of issues expressly excluded by pretrial order, and on which the moving party submitted no…
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…
19-1269 TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Amici (5) antitrust equitable-relief frand frand-commitment jury-trial patent patent-infringement patent-licensing seventh-amendment specific-performance standard-essential-patents standard-setting-organizations Whether a patent owner required to license its standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms has a Seventh Amendment ri…
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…
19-8059 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Uber Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-breach contract-clause due-process judicial-misconduct patent patent-contract separation-of-powers supremacy-clause takings-clause Whether collateral attack on the Contract between the inventor and the United States Patent and Trademark Office in bad faith by the entire Judiciary,…
19-8029 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Lyft, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-18 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-emergency contract-clause corporate-infringement due-process government-contracts judicial-misconduct mutiny national-security patent patent-rights sedition separation-of-powers supreme-court supreme-court-precedent takings Whether Chief Justice Roberts engaged in conflict of interest against inventors as a member of the Knights of Malta with fealty to the Queen of Englan…
19-7953 Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez California 2020-03-11 Dismissed IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights costs due-process patent standing takings waiver-of-fees Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claims
19-1103 INO Therapeutics LLC, et al. v. Praxair Distribution Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 drug-administration due-process eligibility innovation medical-research medical-treatment method-of-treatment patent patent-eligibility patient-outcomes personalized-medicine section-101 selective-treatment Whether a method of treatment that requires doctors to selectively administer a drug to certain patients and not others to enhance patient outcomes is…
19-7805 Shavis Holloman v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision
19-7905 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Exxon Mobil Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-emergency constitutional-interpretation contract-clause due-process government-grants judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent martial-law patent patent-law patent-rights separation-of-powers treason Whether the concerted wanton breach of solemn Oaths collectively failing to enforce the Laws of the Land and Stare Decisis Laws of the Case constitute…
19-7910 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Intuit, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law contract contract-rights due-process government-contract government-contracts government-grants judicial-misconduct jurisdiction patent patent-contract patent-rights standing takings Whether the Supreme Court should enforce the mandated prohibition against repudiating government-issued patent contract grants as delineated in govern…
19-1097 Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-06 Denied Relisted (2) aia burden-of-proof due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-validity retroactive-legislation retroactivity takings vested-rights Does the application of inter partes review to a patent that issued before the enactment of the AIA violate the Due Process Clause because it retroact…
19-7863 Delores L. Knight v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-appellate-review judicial-review ninth-circuit patent sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court upheld the government's denial of her patent application
19-7822 Harry J. Williby v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant legal principles
19-7784 Darren Lee Jenkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-7691 In Re Wilbert Norwood Starks 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-standing civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant civil-rights statutes and constitutional provisions
19-1012 General Electric Company v. Raytheon Technologies Corporation, fka United Technologies Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Amici (2) article-iii article-iii-standing civil-procedure civil-rights competition competitive-harm competitor-standing due-process inter-partes-review judicial-precedent patent patent-infringement patent-law standing Whether competitive harm alone suffices to confer Article III standing to appeal an IPR determination, or whether an appellant must also show concrete…
19-7629 Carolyn Hill-Lomax v. David Vittetoe, et al. Iowa 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-equal-protec civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-966 Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-02-03 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 35-usc-103 35-usc-324 administrative-law america-invents-act cbm-patent covered-business-method judicial-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation Whether 35 U.S.C. 324(e) permits review on appeal of the Director's threshold determination, as part of the decision to institute CBM review, that the…
19-7510 Francis Damien Block v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
19-7482 Victor Nunez v. Sean Bowerman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-7465 Jose Antonio Contreras v. Washington Washington 2020-01-28 Denied IFP administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review patent procedural-rights racial-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-7391 Larry David Davis v. Larry Tegley, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-sufficiency patent record-review standing takings trial-court Whether the PEMCE [5 in. (em) 12 support the petitioner's claims
19-7358 Joshua Neil Harrell v. Fairfield Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-7226 Tony Robinson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment patent qualified-immunity standing takings Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claim
19-7250 Thomas Kevin Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for determining standing to bring a claim
19-7210 Calvin Ray Cash v. John Rupert, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
19-7169 Daniel Eric Cobble v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-value due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation patent physical-appropriation public-use standing takings takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
19-829 Chrimar Systems, Inc. v. Juniper Networks, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure burden-of-proof due-process evidence inter-partes-review patent patent-challenge patent-law reply reply-evidence Did the Patent and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board violate 35-USC-312(a)(3) and 35-USC-316(a)(8)
19-7032 Kevin Dion Gaddis v. Michigan Michigan 2019-12-20 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-forms due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its decision
19-7017 Lana K. Williams v. Taco Bell Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings WHEY Wo dipatiwvZrv3unnmMe gv Bus iv Ess
19-6893 Michael Wayne Nelson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process patent prison-conditions retaliation standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state's actions
19-6883 Donald Brian Winberg, et ux. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of standing to challenge the constitutionality of the challenged statut…
19-6807 Marcus Robinson v. Les Parish, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure patent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court takings Could Ana Makerck Couck' of Xe Sara Couck make A@ decrarorn ko JaaY Ane Versrraaes'S ANeEFACKAVA Assskaace oF Caunset Clacm wased On U.S. Svtcame Couc…
19-6787 Robert Lee Mitchell v. Miller, Magistrate Judge, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-provisions takings Is the order of the U.S. district court dated 11-19 valid?
19-6762 Fred Martin Wimberley v. Rachel M. Sacramento Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights court due-process patent standing takings No questions presented
19-6728 Jose Anthony Heredia v. Florida Florida 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision
19-6697 Michael Lawrence Pack v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-619 Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied 35-usc-101 abstract-idea computer-automated-method computer-automation computer-network data-analysis data-collection patent patent-eligibility patent-law standing statutory-interpretation Whether patent claims that recite only the abstract idea of collecting and analyzing data are patent-ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice
19-6622 Helene Tonique Williams v. Toni Preckwinkle, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-discretion patent procedural-dismissal standing state-court-procedure takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the case against Pliner Porgue A Mhams, et al.
19-601 Collabo Innovations, Inc. v. Sony Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Relisted (4) 5th-amendment america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act patent retroactive-application retroactivity takings-clause Does the retroactive application of inter partes review to a patent that issued before the passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. No.…
19-591 Chestnut Hill Sound Inc. v. Apple Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-transparency patent reasoned-opinions rule-of-law summary-affirmation summary-affirmations Can a court ever choose to write reasoned opinions for one class of losing appellants and not another under the Due Process and Equal Protection Claus…
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
19-6462 Stephen L. Bush v. David W. Gray, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing
19-6347 Rafael Alvarado v. Frank Lawrence, Warden Illinois 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment when the lower court dismissed his case without a hearing …
19-6326 Michael K. Verble v. City of San Diego, California Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights computer-software constitutional-rights copyright discretionary-process due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection patent patent-infringement standing state-review takings trade-secret volunteer-firefighter Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-6184 Chavalier Dwayne Johnson, Sr. v. Lars Severson, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-6170 Lyndal D. Ritterbush v. Larry Benzon Tenth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Do the Sime Uloe the Ex Most facw Cisse AC Mabroodint, PETRUMels Ofer HAE) Dole?
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…
19-6075 Anthony Q. Kelly v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP 14th-amendment. 1st-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower federal court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-400 Garmin USA, Inc., et al. v. Cellspin Soft, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 35-usc-101 civil-procedure claim-construction eligibility inventive-claims inventive-concept judicial-review legal-question motion-to-dismiss patent patent-eligibility patent-law pleadings question-of-law subject-matter-eligibility Whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court that can be resolved on a motion to dismiss, notwithstanding allegations in a complaint …
19-6041 Ronald Thompson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has erred in its decision to conflict with its previous rulings and precedent decisions
19-5981 William James Truesdale v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdictional-issue legal-standard patent procedural-question standing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-rule transfer Whether the United States District Court deliberately denied Petitioner Jraesdole's February 26, 2019 'PETITION FOR CHANGE OF VENUE' and 'PATENT PETIT…
19-5937 Raymond Johnson v. Credit One Bank, et al. Maryland 2019-09-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility free-speech judicial-discretion patent standing takings trial-procedure Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
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…
19-5906 Mitchell Taebel v. Douglas A. Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5916 Juan Matias Torres v. Ralph M. Diaz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process free-speech habeas-corpus intellectual-disability patent standing takings Whether the 8th and 14th Amendments prohibit the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at the time of the offense
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…
19-5826 Jerry Perez, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the 5 Great Lobsters of Spect on é a flab ed, (flee OitteS- ad Ggee table a og | tp iotees daw , a het si ance Ge She Syihan - wating Cnn YS c…
19-5828 Dennis Andrew Ball v. City of Marion, Illinois Illinois 2019-09-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
19-5803 Robert H. Johnson v. Drew Stanley, Superintendent, Warren Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the 'effective compromise' doctrine
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…
19-5626 In Re Vinodh Raghubir 2019-08-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower courts' rulings
19-5627 In Re Vinodh Raghubir 2019-08-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be g…
19-5637 Karen Sue Wilson v. Marion Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Questions presented around the issues of Oy, S05 TL acrested, Sad —YaeE
19-5496 Salvatore Moretti v. Michael Mordaga Third Circuit 2019-08-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process high-profile-case monell-liability patent standing takings Has Appellant Moretti Proven Monell Liability in the Respondent, Michael Mordaga, Given the High-Profile Case Which Was Briefed by Deborah Poritz, the…
19-5366 Robert Curry v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogatory patent post-conviction standing Whether petitioner was denied reasonable and/or adequate opportunity of assisting counsel during appeal process
19-5349 Andrew Condon v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the law
19-5342 L. T. Tucker, Jr. v. Corizon Correctional Health Care, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-25 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
19-5299 Samuel Rivera Rosado v. Lucid Energy, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-24 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights copyright-infringement copyright-ownership copyright-protection design-theft due-process intellectual-property patent patent-infringement patent-registration standing takings Whether the U.S. Supreme Court can allow a company to steal a person's copyright ownership, design, drawing and blueprints and secure a patent for the…
19-113 William F. Holdner v. Katy Coba, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response Waived agricultural-operation agriculture-operation-permit civil-rights due-process environmental-law environmental-regulation federal-environmental-regulations habeas-corpus patent patent-rights property-rights stormwater-permit water-pollution water-rights Whether a person engaged in an agricultural operation can be charged and convicted for failure to possess a stormwater permit
19-5273 Wendolyn Lee v. Amy P. Weirich, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech patent sentencing standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the legal issues involved in this case
19-5237 Felix Lyle Cowan v. Eli Lilly, et al. Second Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied IFP antitrust bad-faith civil-procedure class-action patent settlement antitrust appellate-jurisdiction bad-faith civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-standing patent standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging bad faith conduct by the respondents in a patent settlement agreement
19-5173 Johnny Kirkland v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-device fourth-amendment patent probable-cause standing takings unreasonable-search warrantless-search Whether Hunks nian 'EM As Kncocpyehion Was Ned h\\igence Under Nesse\\ Quoner +
19-5158 John Higgins, Jr. v. Federal National Mortgage Association First Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings Whether the lower court erred in its decision
19-5140 Vinodh Raghubir v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's complaint for lack of standing and failure to state a claim under the First Amendment, Fif…
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?
19-5121 Ricky Daniel Wagoner v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
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 …
19-5091 Orrin Tyler Colbourn v. California California 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing statement-of-case statutory-provisions takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
19-5033 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antitrust antitrust-violation bias civil-procedure-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel constitutional-challenge corporate-infringement due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge patent patent-rights rico standing Whether due process requires jurisdiction must be proven when challenged, when none existed to begin with
18-9813 Levar Brown v. California California 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy discovery due-process forma-pauperis free-speech indigency legal-correspondence patent petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Did the Supreme Court abuse its discretion by denying the right of the petitioners to discovery further and to rebut a conspiracy which infringes thei…
18-1574 William Henry Starrett v. Department of Defense, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response Waived 12(b)(6) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-allegations federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss patent pleading pleading-standards standard-of-review standing takings technology-law Whether a complaint can survive a motion to dismiss when its factual allegations and claims involve one or more technologies, or capabilities of combi…
18-9671 In Re Frank J. Ashley 2019-06-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its decision regarding the petitioner's constitutional rights
18-9638 Jose Luis Barboza, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-06-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-tampering free-speech gang-membership patent prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines standing trial-fairness Whether the defendant was improperly called a 'n****r lover' by the victim's attorney, resulting in a violation of due-process, free-speech, civil-rig…
18-9624 Robert William Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standard for X
18-9585 Roy Williams v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-06-07 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the Slables Covell of Hygoees Cntet 4 betan is constitutional
18-9542 In Re David Roland Hinkson 2019-06-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Question not identified
18-9473 Jose Antonio Contreras v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Why is the petition of Holleads Court wrongly being denied by the District Court?
18-9374 Bruce Duane Walton v. Tracy Ray, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Was the Tor of inlentonad, mbeteverce won Ale Greece with oreurzalment oP MONET
18-9346 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction patent patent-prosecution procedural-fairness Whether preclusive effect should not be given to agency/court determination where a financially conflicted agency/court lacked jurisdiction to adjudic…
18-9312 Travis Jermaine Wright v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-9282 William Kimble v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-9142 Joshua Neil Harrell v. California California 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-9125 Luzetha Wardrick v. Brooks Benton, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court-decision civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-circuit-court federal-court legal-dispute patent procedural-irregularities standing supreme-court-review takings Does the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over this case?
18-9083 Ken Gryder v. Laura Rudy, et al. Virginia 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights county-taxation defamation-claim dmv-registration due-process employment-damages free-speech malicious-prosecution patent prosecutorial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing takings unlawful-eviction Whether the issues raised in the SCOTUS petition for writ of certiorari are properly presented
18-8908 Preston G. Demouchet, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
18-8906 De'Angelo Wilson v. Marilyn Russell, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claim for lack of standing
18-1309 Booking.com B.V. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 GVR Amici (4)Relisted (3) administrative-law american-rule attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-procedure-costs first-amendment government-fees government-litigation patent statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration Does the presumption under the American Rule that 'each litigant pays his own attorneys' fees, win or lose, unless a statute or contract provides othe…
18-8745 Louis Alfred Piccone v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-procedure pa-rde-216 patent selling-v-radford administrative-law civil-procedure due-process federal-procedure patent patent-attorney-discipline professional-discipline reciprocal-discipline statutory-interpretation Does Mr. Piccone's Pennsylvania reciprocal suspension, based upon the USPTO action conducted in violation of 35 U.S.C. § 24's mandated discovery and d…
18-1280 Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. v. Roxane Laboratories, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Amici (5) blocking-patent-doctrine blocking-patents burden-of-proof graham-v-john-deere nonobviousness objective-indicia obviousness patent patent-law patent-obviousness pharmaceutical-innovation prior-art Whether objective indicia of nonobviousness may be partially or entirely discounted where the development of the invention was allegedly 'blocked' by …
18-1275 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-04-05 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-fraud-on-the-court civil-rights discovery due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct patent patent-infringement sanctions standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case based on the magistrate judge's fraudulent statements and Huawei's perjured testimony
18-8706 Donn Deveral Martin v. Texas Texas 2019-04-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure patent scotus-rules standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rules takings Whether the lower courts correctly applied the standard for granting a writ of certiorari under SCOTUS Rule 10
18-8622 In Re Mark Garrett 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus-petition opinions-below patent reason-for-granting-the-petition rules-involved standing takings writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant legal principles
18-8613 Quincy Magee v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. District of Columbia 2019-03-28 Denied IFP antitrust business-disputes civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-infringement copyright-protection corporate-infringement due-process employment-rights fraud intellectual-property licensing patent patent-infringement patent-ownership standing trade-secret Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging copyright infringement, patent infringement, and fraud
18-8532 Terrence L. Wright v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-03-22 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Question not identified
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
18-8204 Eduardo Molina Bracero v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies patent qualified-immunity standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the respondent's actions
18-8084 Warren Scott Taylor v. Virginia Virginia 2019-02-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-8071 Stephen Silas Thomas v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-8080 In Re Charlette Dufray Johnson 2019-02-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
18-8018 Michael Anthony Kendrick v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-provisions takings Can Fagen Nebers Coutr dissaern MY Peesuma Tb be; Poaener™ 2 USES 22H408) Cini AND DENY qo Explaln Why?
18-1072 James J. Macor v. United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-102 35-usc-103 administrative-law analogous-art obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-examination patent-law prior-art statutory-interpretation Whether the standard for determining if prior art is 'analogous' in making rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious, and whether a finding of no…
18-7939 In Re Daniel Eric Salley 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus patent standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-powers Whether the district court failed to properly apply 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) and (c), and Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a) by not computing time according to the stat…
18-7775 Joseph F. Olivares v. Michigan Workers' Compensation Agency, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing statute-of-limitations takings workers-compensation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions?
18-7728 Alphonso Haynesworth v. South Carolina Department of Mental Health, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure-rules due-process equal-protection standing civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-7691 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP america-invents-act civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-grants due-process judicial-review patent patent-prosecution-history-estoppel patent-reexamination standing takings Whether the District Court and Circuit Court Judges have a duty to abide by the Constitution and rule per the Law of the Case and Law of the Land
18-999 Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Bennett Regulator Guards, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-01-31 GVR Amici (1)Relisted (3) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-procedure administrative-review america-invents-act dismissal-without-prejudice federal-circuit-jurisdiction inter-partes-review jurisdiction patent patent-law patent-review-procedure-35-usc-314-315 patent-trial-and-appeal-board standing time-bar Did the Federal Circuit err in concluding that it had jurisdiction to review the Board's decision to institute inter partes review
18-7684 Raynard Reginald Brown v. Virginia Virginia 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process patent standing takings Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying the petition for appeal
18-7629 Calvin E. Barnett v. Joe M. Allbaugh, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process property-rights standing takings civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the legal issues involved in this case
18-7598 Carol J. Morris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-compensation patent standing statutory-construction takings Whether the petitioner's convictions should be vacated due to ineffective assistance of counsel and violations of due process
18-961 Mitchell R. Swartz v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-145 35-usc-section-145 administrative-law civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-review judicial-procedure patent patent-application patent-law-35-usc-145 patent-office standing takings Whether the court erred in not being consistent with prior Supreme Court decisions regarding the requirement of 35 U.S.C. §145 claims to address new e…
18-7483 Robert John Frank v. Florida Florida 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the Second District Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's case
18-7435 James Arthur Biggins v. Carl C. Danberg, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied IFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction patent patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-law standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant patent law statutes
18-7334 Jesse R. Perez v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the court below erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-7341 Roderick V. Burton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-juri civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the U.S. Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari
18-7343 Alberic Israel, on Behalf of Minor Children A. I. and E. I. v. City of North Miami, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent standing takings Where Manifest Injustice Has Occurred in Courts is Wrongly Construing Applicable Statutes of Limitations on Timely Submissions of Previous Motions Den…
18-880 SureShot Golf Ventures, Inc. v. Topgolf International, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied antitrust antitrust-claims article-iii article-iii-ripeness civil-procedure competitor-rights essential-technology market-foreclosure monopolist monopoly patent patent-technology ripeness-doctrine standing Whether the Article III ripeness doctrine bars a competitor's antitrust claims against a monopolist who acquired essential and patented technology to …
18-7288 Jamie Rozelle Harrison v. California California 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the differences raised in the opinions that need to be addressed in a higher court
18-7296 Demetrio Cisneros v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-actions due-process global-tech investigative-duty knowledge knowledge-standard patent standing willful-blindness Can failure to investigate suspicious circumstances, without more, constitute the 'deliberate actions' to avoid knowledge under the willful-blindness …
18-823 ZUP, LLC v. Nash Manufacturing, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-12-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived invention invention-evaluation legal-analysis long-felt-need non-obviousness obviousness obviousness-standard patent patent-invalidity patent-law prima-facie prior-art rebuttal secondary-considerations Whether evidence of 'secondary considerations' is less important in rebutting prima facie evidence of obviousness
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…
18-770 Webtrends, Inc. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-test claim-rejection federal-court patent patent-claims prior-art standing uspto Whether the USPTO or a Federal Court can declare 20 patent claims to be directed to an unpatentable abstract idea without carrying out the Alice two-p…
18-750 JTEKT Corporation v. GKN Automotive Ltd. Federal Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing estoppel injury-in-fact inter-partes-review patent patent-office-appeal patent-standing standing standing-article-iii-injury-in-fact-patent-office- statutory-interpretation statutory-rights Can the Federal Circuit refuse to hear an appeal by a petitioner from an adverse final decision in a Patent Office inter partes review on the basis of…
18-6931 Asia Johnson v. Rothschild Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions
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…
18-6825 In Re Alonzo Dean Shephard 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-6710 Myra Tyler v. Main Industries, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the lower court's decision
18-607 Jon Roozbeh Vazeen, aka Hassan Vazin v. Michelle Smith Vazin Tennessee 2018-11-08 Denied asset-dissipation civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial free-speech galileo-style-prosecution national-science-foundation patent property-rights scientific-prosecution standing takings trial-court-overreach Does a trial court have the right to prosecute a scientist for forward-thinking science?
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
18-6602 Darnell Nolley v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the Tendieren Continent Conditions Characterizing 255 GMME Cotf ica ars el ns } nic ddl igi ca Haiship rane
18-6603 David Johnson v. Indiana Indiana 2018-11-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings voting-rights Whether the Indiana Supreme Court erred in upholding the constitutionality of Indiana's Voter ID law under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
18-6508 Duan Leonard Williams v. Virginia Virginia 2018-10-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent question-not-identified standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-6439 Juan Ortega Lara v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the court below erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-6456 William J. O'Brien, III v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-6443 Bobbie Lee Adams, III v. Netflix, Inc. Second Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the petitioner's claims
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…
18-441 Accord Healthcare, Inc., et al. v. UCB, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 35-usc-103 lead-compound obviousness patent patent-invalidation patent-law pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-compound prior-art Whether the Federal Circuit erred in holding that a patent claim to an obvious modification of a prior art compound was not invalid as obvious under 3…
18-415 HP Inc., fka Hewlett-Packard Company v. Steven E. Berkheimer Federal Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework civil-procedure claim-construction inventive-concept judicial-exception patent patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standing Whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court based on the scope of the claims or a question of fact for the jury based on the state o…
18-6195 Marlon L. Watford v. Natasha Doe, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-10-03 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the case
18-6170 Tommie Lee Henderson v. VIP Taxi LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the District Court erred in dismissing the complaint for lack of standing
18-6127 Timothy Warren Vallier v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-speech civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction online-speech patent standing takings Does the First Amendment protect the right to engage in anonymous online speech?
18-388 Nigel Parker, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response Waived 5-usc-706(2)(e) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-overreach arbitrary-and-capricious patent patent-law patent-office patent-office-rejection publication publication-standard publication-under-35-usc-102(b) record-evidence substantial-evidence Whether the substantial' evidence required to support agency action under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(E) must be evidence of record?
18-378 Merck & Co., Inc., et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure damages equitable-defense jury-verdict legal-relief patent separation-of-powers seventh-amendment unclean-hands Whether the equitable defense of unclean hands precludes legal relief in the form of damages
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
18-5955 In Re Steven D. Turner, Jr. 2018-09-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the Petitioner has standing to bring this case under Article III of the U.S. Constitution
18-5956 James E. Whitney v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence patent search-and-seizure standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of t…
18-5906 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. David Weiss Second Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech medical-records patent standing subpoena takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-5919 Lance R. Martin v. Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr., et al. California 2018-09-07 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-review patent standing statutory-interpretation takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statute
18-5851 Martin Salinas v. Texas Texas 2018-08-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech patent standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the First Amendment's free speech protections
18-5818 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Harika Kondaveeti Second Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings Why did the court not grant the petitioner's request for a preliminary injunction?
18-5819 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Jessie Fields Second Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights diagnostic-procedure due-process free-speech infectious-disease laboratory-methods lysate-contamination medical-device medical-testing patent sample-analysis standing takings Whether the state of Missouri's disposal of a defective and contaminated COVID-19 vaccine violated the plaintiff's constitutional rights
18-5833 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Fabio Volterra Second Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-5834 Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Keith Robinson Second Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medical-treatment patent prison-conditions standing takings Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment when the court failed to provide him with adequate medical…
18-5820 Augustus Hebrew Evans, Jr. v. Delaware Delaware 2018-08-29 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ' 'civil-rights" ' 'due-process" ' 'freedom-of-information" ' 'public-records" ' 'standing" ' 'state-government' civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the State of Delaware violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his request for public records under the Freedom of Informati…
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
18-5829 Arika Matelyan v. Atlantic Records WMG, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights copyright due-process free-speech patent privacy standing takings Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision regarding the issues presented under 18 U.S.C. 2257
18-5803 Matthew James Dury v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction patent standing statutory-provisions takings Whether the lower court erred in its ruling on the issues presented
18-5755 Dwight L. Allen v. Superior Court of Georgia, Camden County Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jurisdiction patent standing takings Whether the federal district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
18-222 EMED Technologies Corporation v. Repro-Med Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied administrative-procedure claim-construction constitutional-amendment digital-claim due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-claim-construction patent-law-procedure review-procedure standard-of-review takings Whether the PTAB erred in applying the Texas-Digital claim construction standard rather than the Phillips standard
18-5568 Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Ohio 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge opinions-below patent procedural-defect standing summary-judgment takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions
18-183 Advanced Audio Devices, LLC v. HTC Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived 5th-amendment aia america-invents-act constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment inter-partes-review patent patent-law patents takings-clause Whether inter partes review (IPR) of patents filed before enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA") violates the Takings Clause of the …
18-5367 Edward David Jones, Jr. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied IFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-review free-speech habeas-corpus ninth-circuit patent standing state-court-conviction takings Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim
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…
18-5215 Dino Contreras Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel patent standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation takings Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court failed to properly consider exculpatory evidence and testimony that wou…
18-63 Steve K. Wilson Briggs v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-claims copyright-law court-procedure due-process free-speech intellectual-property internet-guidelines legal-precedent patent precedent standing Whether by failing to clarify and update internet-access-guidelines, U.S. courts imperil the rights of U.S. intellectual-property-owners
18-5186 Dominick Theresa v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure claim-limitations claim-validity due-process judicial-review legal-principles patent patent-claims patent-examination pro-se pro-se-litigation standing Whether the lower courts deprived the pro se petitioner of due process and disregarded the limitations within the patent claims as well as the validit…
18-5174 Michael Allen Griffin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-murder civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto jury-unanimity patent retroactivity standing takings Whether Petitioner's death sentences for two 1994 homicides can remain intact given that his jury did not unanimously find the elements of capital mur…
18-5130 Marlon L. Watford v. Erik Fossum, et al. District of Columbia 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent qualified-immunity standing takings Whether the 14th Amendment's due process clause protects against arbitrary government action
18-5165 Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation patent standing takings Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
18-5116 Benjamin A. Gibbs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction life-sentence murder patent retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines standing takings uncharge-offense Whether the petitioner's life sentence for an uncharged offense of murder violates due process, retroactive application of law, and sentencing guideli…
18-5120 Kenneth P. Nelson v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security First Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process patent property-rights standing takings Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's claims under the Takings Clause and Due Process Clause