patent-application

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6217 Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Colgate Palmolive Co., et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied IFP constitutional-rights federal-court patent-application procedural-action state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a federal court has subject-matter jurisdiction to order a state court judge's jurisdiction and adjudge a patent application's procedural acti…
20-1126 Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo, et al. v. Unknown Defendants Massachusetts 2021-02-17 Denied 35-usc-145 35-usc-261 adverse-possession federal-circuit patent-application patent-ownership property-rights quiet-title standing-doctrine try-title uspto-procedure Does a party asserting ownership to a patent application have a right to a state (commonwealth) action like either a Massachusetts quiet action or a M…
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…
18-801 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…
18-371 George M. Wang v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 additional-features alice-corp-v-cls-bank inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus patent-application patent-claims patent-community patent-eligibility patent-protection phonetic-symbol-system useful-invention Whether the claims of the very useful invention contain 'additional features' embodying an inventive concept that makes the invention patent-eligible
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…