| 25-505 |
Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
judicial-exceptions machine-learning patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption section-101 |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit's approach to patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 flouts this Court's instruction to consider preemption, as discu… |
| 24-916 |
Koss Corporation v. Bose Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-estoppel dismissal-stipulation federal-circuit non-merits-determination patent-claims rule-12(b)(6) |
When a district court grants a Rule-12(b)(6) motion to dismiss but does so without prejudice and with leave to amend, may that non-merits determinatio… |
| 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 |
| 22-22 |
David A. Tropp v. Travel Sentry, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (3) |
35-usc-101 alice-test alice-v-cls-bank computer-processing luggage-screening patent-claims patent-eligibility physical-steps |
Whether the claims at issue in Tropp's patents reciting physical rather than computer-processing steps are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101, as i… |
| 21-1106 |
Thaddeus Gabara v. Facebook, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea data-structure patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption prior-art section-101 two-step-framework |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is 'directed to' a patent-ineligible concept under step 1 of the Court's two-s… |
| 21-811 |
Yanbin Yu, et al. v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-construction diamond-v-diehr federal-circuit mayo-test mayo-v-prometheus parker-v-flook patent-claim patent-claims patent-eligibility point-of-novelty |
Whether patent claims should be considered 'as a whole' or only the 'point of novelty' in determining patent eligibility |
| 20-6128 |
Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-10-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial parental-rights patent-claims state-procedure |
Does CL have a right to a jury trial when the state seeks to terminate parental rights? |
| 19-1378 |
Phazzer Electronics, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ex-parte-review federal-circuit patent-cancellation patent-claims patent-damages remand standing uspto-cancellation uspto-reexamination |
Is the Federal Circuit's affirmation of patent damages correct in light of the USPTO's cancellation of the patent claims? |
| 19-1299 |
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… |
| 19-1131 |
Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-112 claim-construction federal-circuit patent-claims patent-law patent-law-35-usc-112 patent-specification patent-validity statutory-interpretation written-description written-description-requirement |
Whether § 112 requires a patent's specification to contain a written description of all of the limitations of a patent's claims, not just a 'substanti… |
| 19-1058 |
Hospira, Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Company |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
claim-drafting claim-narrowing doctrine-of-equivalents literal-infringement patent-claim-interpretation patent-claims patent-prosecution-estoppel patent-prosecution-history-estoppel patent-scope prior-art-rejection tangential-relation tangential-relation-exception |
Whether a patentee may recapture subject matter via the doctrine of equivalents under the 'tangential relation' exception |
| 19-211 |
Time Warner Cable, Inc., et al. v. Sprint Communications Company, L.P. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-112 35-usc-112a 35-usc-284 apportionment federal-circuit garretson-v-clark patent-claims patent-damages patent-infringement patent-validity reasonable-royalty written-description |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred by affirming a damages award based on unapportioned end-user service revenues |
| 18-1515 |
Eli Lilly and Company v. Erfindergemeinschaft UroPep GbR |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-112 ariad-pharmaceuticals claim-construction enablement functional-claiming halliburton-oil-well-cementing halliburton-oil-well-cementing-co-v-walker halliburton-precedent patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-law point-of-novelty single-step-claim written-description |
Whether a single-step patent claim that describes its point of novelty solely in functional terms violates the rule against functional claiming |
| 18-1397 |
Prism Technologies LLC v. Sprint Spectrum L.P., dba Sprint PCS |
Federal Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 appellate-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel federal-circuit federal-circuit-jurisdiction jurisdiction-scope mandate-rule patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-invalidity retroactive-expansion |
Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals may retroactively expand the scope of its appellate jurisdiction to invalidate patent claims under 35 U.S… |
| 18-770 |
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… |
| 18-495 |
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… |
| 18-371 |
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 |
| 18-252 |
Real Estate Alliance Ltd. v. Move, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test alice-v-cls-bank computer-user-interface fact-finding federal-circuit inventive-concept patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-law well-understood-routine-and-conventional |
Whether an ordered combination of elements in a patent claim is 'well-understood, routine and conventional' to a skilled artisan in the relevant field… |
| 18-124 |
Two-Way Media Ltd. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea factual-questions innovation-specificity motion-to-dismiss patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-under-35-usc-101 patent-specification section-101 specificity-requirement technological-architecture |
Innovative-technological-architecture-for-online-media-streaming |
| 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… |