| 25-853 |
United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
abstract-idea alice-framework federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 technological-process |
Congress has authorized inventors to patent "any new and useful process," or "any new and useful improvement thereof." 35 U.S.C. § 101. This Court has… |
| 25A659 |
United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Application |
|
abstract-idea alice-test mobile-technology patent-eligibility patent-infringement section-101 |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 24-836 |
Impact Engine, Inc. v. Google LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
claim-construction functional-claim judicial-exception patent-act patent-eligibility scientific-building-blocks |
Section 101 of the Patent Act provides that "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter" is eligible for a patent. This… |
| 24-827 |
Broadband iTV, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
|
alice-test claim-construction material-fact patent-eligibility patent-law summary-judgment |
Courts assess whether patent claims are patenteligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 using the two-step test articulated in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Internatio… |
| 24A517 |
Broadband iTV, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abstract-idea alice-test electronic-program-guide patent-eligibility section-101 software-patent |
Question not identified. |
| 24A497 |
Audio Evolution Diagnostics, Inc. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
alice-doctrine federal-circuit mayo-standard patent-eligibility section-101 technological-innovation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A485 |
Impact Engine, Inc. v. Google LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
alice-framework means-plus-function patent-claim patent-eligibility section-101 section-112 |
Whether the specific structure defining the scope of a means-plus-function patent claim under 35 U.S.C. § 112(f) must be considered when resolving whe… |
| 24-312 |
Plotagraph, Inc., et al. v. Lightricks, Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alice-doctrine computer-implemented-invention digital-animation patent-eligibility pixel-shifting software-patent |
Whether the claims at issue in the Plotagraph patents are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101, as interpreted in Alice Corporation Pty v. CLS Bank I… |
| 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. |
| 23A988 |
Return Mail, Inc. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1184 |
Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 alice alice-test computer-network distributed-computing functional-claiming patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 specificity-of-description |
1. Whether claims drawn to solving specific problems restricting the usefulness of an existing computer-network technology recite patent-eligible subj… |
| 23-7073 |
James L. Miller v. Scott S. Harris, Clerk, Supreme Court of the United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process patent-eligibility standing takings-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6984 |
Chikezie Ottah v. Verifone System Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-interpretation patent-eligibility patent-law procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-796 |
Ficep Corporation v. Peddinghaus Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
|
abstract-idea alice-test automation fact-issues inventiveness manufacturing-process patent-eligibility subject-matter-eligibility technological-improvement technological-innovation |
Ficep invented and claimed a method of manufacturing components (like steel beams) of a larger structure (like the skeleton of a building). The claims… |
| 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. |
| 23-245 |
ChromaDex, Inc., et al. v. Elysium Health, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alice-mayo-framework alice-v-cls-bank biotechnology federal-circuit inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus natural-phenomena patent-eligibility |
Whether the two-step Alice/Mayo framework governs the eligibility of patents allegedly directed to natural phenomena. |
| 23A95 |
ChromaDex, Inc., et al. v. Elysium Health, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
composition-of-matter isolated-natural-substance markedly-different-characteristics myriad-genetics patent-eligibility section-101 |
1. This case presents important questions about the framework for determining patent eligibility. In particular, the case concerns whether composition… |
| 22-1220 |
Jeffrey A. Killian v. Katherine K. Vidal, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-doctrine alice-mayo-test due-process federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 uspto |
I. Have the numerous departures of the Supreme Court's Alice/Mayo jurisprudence by the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit (hereinafter "the Feder… |
| 22-1066 |
CareDx Inc., et al. v. Natera, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 medical-diagnostics method-patent natural-phenomenon patent-eligibility patent-infringement prior-art scientific-innovation section-101 statutory-interpretation |
Congress has provided that any "new and useful process" is eligible for patent protection, and that "any new and useful improvement thereof" is also e… |
| 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? |
| 22-822 |
Avery Dennison Corporation v. ADASA Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 binary-encoding most-significant-bits patent-claim patent-eligibility rfid rfid-technology section-101 serial-number |
Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) tags are encoded with lengthy serial numbers that uniquely identify particular items. The patent at issue… |
| 22-604 |
Garth Janke v. Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
3d-printing gottschalk-v-benson mathematical-model parker-v-flook patent-eligibility patent-law patent-monopoly product-preemption |
Can a known patentable product become ineligible for patenting when it is claimed to be made by applying a mathematical model of the product on a 3D p… |
| 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… |
| 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 |
The Patent Act adopted by Congress provides that a person shall be entitled to a patent if an invention meets three conditions: the eligibility condit… |
| 21-1554 |
Worlds Inc. v. Activision Blizzard Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea filtering patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility section-101 software-invention summary-judgment well-known-routine-conventional |
In the mid-1990s, petitioner Worlds invented computer software with protocols that allowed an increased number of players to access a three-dimensiona… |
| 21-1370 |
Spireon, Inc. v. Procon Analytics, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction fact-question federal-circuit judicial-exception patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility pleadings |
1. 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 tw… |
| 21-1281 |
Interactive Wearables, LLC v. Polar Electro Oy, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction enablement judicial-exceptions legal-standard patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 two-step-framework |
The patents-in-suit are directed to an electronic hardware device comprising a content player/remote-control combination having numerous concretely-re… |
| 21-1228 |
Ameranth, Inc. v. Olo, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 alice-framework alice-two-step claim-construction judicial-exception patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-ineligible-concept question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 |
This computer-based patent infringement case presents the same questions pending before the Court in American Axle & Mfg, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC,… |
| 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… |
| 21-1093 |
PersonalWeb Technologies LLC v. Google LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-eligibility patent-law technical-field |
1. How should courts determine whether a patent for a computer-implemented invention is patent-eligible because it "improve[s] the functioning of the … |
| 21-1056 |
Universal Secure Registry LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test federal-circuit patent-act patent-eligibility section-101 specificity unconventionality unexpected-results |
Does patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 require "specificity," "unexpected results" and "unconventionality," in conflict with the Patent Act and… |
| 21-811 |
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, when applying the test for patent eligibility set forth in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U.S. 66 (2012), … |
| 21-812 |
WhitServe LLC v. Dropbox, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 enablement patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 section-101 technological-improvement |
1. If a patentee makes factual assertions and provides supporting evidence that its claimed invention is directed to patent-eligible subject matter un… |
| 21-6050 |
James Bongiorno v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abstract-idea cantrell-v-wallick electronic-unit functional-improvement hardware-structures machine machine-patent patent-eligibility section-101 |
Section 101 of the Patent Act provides that "[w]hoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter… |
| 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… |
| 21-364 |
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 by Citizen patent applications for inventions Inventors - characterized by narrow and well-defined practica… |
| 21-209 |
Huping Hu, et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 intellectual-property judicial-exceptions natural-phenomenon operability-standard patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art quantum-entanglement reproducibility-of-results scientific-discovery section-101 |
Whether the PTO's varied standards, buttressed by the decisional law of the lower reviewing courts, for determining operability under § 101 are biased… |
| 20-1809 |
VoIP-Pal.com, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 innovation innovation-incentives judicial-framework legal-uncertainty patent-act patent-eligibility patent-law patent-system statutory-interpretation subject-matter-eligibility |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim "directed to" a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two-st… |
| 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 |
The questions presented are the same as those presented in the petition for a writ of certiorari filed in connection with American Axle & Manufacturin… |
| 20-1517 |
Fast 101 Pty. Ltd. v. Citigroup Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12(b)(6)-dismissal alice-mayo-test claim-construction claim-language inventive-concept patent-eligibility prior-art subject-matter-eligibility |
1. When analyzing patent claims for subject matter eligibility "as a whole," does a court need to evaluate the differences between prior art allegatio… |
| 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 |
1. Is the addition of a network computer implemented social network, with a novel and unconventional rating system, to a method of organizing human ac… |
| 20-1289 |
NetScout Systems, Inc., et al. v. Packet Intelligence LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 enhanced-damages good-faith-defenses patent-eligibility patent-infringement section-101 technological-subject-matter treble-damages willful-infringement |
Whether a finding of willful infringement justifying treble damages may be based solely on the defendant's conduct following the filing of the suit.
… |
| 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… |
| 20-891 |
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
35-usc-101 alice-v-cls claim-construction judicial-exception judicial-exceptions patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-law standard-of-review two-step-framework |
American Axle invented a new process for making a new, useful, and tangible thing – a quieter automobile driveshaft. It is the type of invention that … |
| 20-604 |
InfoBionic, Inc. v. Cardionet, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit innovation longstanding-human-practice patent-eligibility patent-monopoly statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit has properly narrowed the scope of the abstract idea exception under 35 U.S.C. § 101. |
| 20-453 |
Consumer 2.0, Inc., dba Rently v. Tenant Turner, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 alice-test conventional-features graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias patent-eligibility preemption section-101 section-103 |
1) Whether preemption is a threshold and defining consideration that the lower courts must consider in determining whether a claimed invention is dire… |
| 20-439 |
Mantissa Corporation v. Ondot Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-exception fact-finding patent-eligibility pre-emption section-101 technical-field |
1) Has this Court's Alice exception to patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101
been improperly expanded to cover computer-implemented inventions that… |
| 20-325 |
Whitserve LLC v. Donuts Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 commercial-success fact-weighing patent-eligibility patent-infringement patent-validity presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 statutory-presumption |
If a patentee makes factual assertions that its claimed invention is directed
to patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101, including asser… |
| 20-135 |
Customedia Technologies, LLC v. Dish Network Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-USC-101 Administrative-Procedure-Act Appointments-Clause Due-Process Leahy-Smith-America-Invents-Act patent-eligibility Patent-Eligible-Subject-Matter patent-trial-and-appeals-board ultra-vires |
1. Whether a court of appeals can invoke forfeiture to refuse to address an Appointments Clause violation in a pending appeal despite an intervening c… |
| 20-74 |
Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Eugene H. Luoma, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
GVR |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law america-invents-act enablement intellectual-property judicial-review obviousness patent-eligibility patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity prior-art written-description |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
This Court has held that any machine or process is eligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101, subject only to narrow exceptions where the p… |
| 19-1464 |
Christopher Primbas, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstract-idea alice-v-cls-bank claim-construction inventive-concept parker-v-flook patent-eligibility patent-office patent-prosecution prior-art |
Whether recitation in a patent claim of a combination of steps determined to be inventive over an idea is "sufficient to ensure that the patent in pra… |
| 19-1435 |
C. Douglass Thomas v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alice-mayo-framework alice-v-cls-bank claim-limitations computer-technology diehr-v-diamond inventive-concept mayo-v-prometheus nonobviousness patent-eligibility software-innovation software-patents |
1. Whether software innovations, simply because they are implemented on a general purpose computer, are ineligible for patenting unless they claim som… |
| 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… |
| 19-1103 |
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… |
| 19-1017 |
Solutran, Inc. v. Elavon, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alice-test alice-v-cls-bank bilski-v-kappos business-method-patent business-method-patents claim-construction patent-eligibility prior-art subject-matter-eligibility |
Does Alice's step one require that the claims be viewed as a whole and that consideration be given to the claimed advance over the prior art? |
| 19-852 |
Maxell, Ltd. v. Fandango Media, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
|
35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test content-access content-access-control digital-media network-transmission online-streaming patent-eligibility time-controls |
Whether the claims at issue in Maxell's patents are patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. 101, as interpreted in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 … |
| 19-7058 |
In Re Ramsey Randall |
|
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 35-usc-101 civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech patent-eligibility standing |
Does the petitioner's arrest violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution's freedom of petition AND Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equ… |
| 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. |
| 19-597 |
Morris Reese v. Sprint Nextel Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit mayo-v-prometheus patent-eligibility patent-ineligible-concept patent-law section-101 |
Whether this case provides an appropriate vehicle for this Court to state with clarity and certainty the definition of an "abstract idea" under 35 U.S… |
| 19-522 |
Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. IBG LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
|
abstract-idea civil-procedure computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-act patent-act-1952 patent-eligibility standing |
In Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208 (2014), the Court declined once again to define the scope of the "abstract idea" exce… |
| 19-521 |
ChargePoint, Inc. v. SemaConnect, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-v-cls-bank diamond-v-diehr innovation judicial-interpretation machine-or-process patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 |
1. Whether a patent claim to a new and useful improvement to a machine or process may be patent eligible even when it "involves" or incorporates an ab… |
| 19-430 |
Athena Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC, dba Mayo Medical Laboratories, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (11) |
35-usc-101 chemical-process chemical-steps diagnostic-method federal-circuit medical-diagnostics medical-innovation molecular-detection novel-molecules patent-eligibility patent-protection precedent subject-matter-eligibility |
Whether a new and specific method of diagnosing a medical condition is patent-eligible subject matter, where the method detects a molecule never previ… |
| 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 … |
| 19-353 |
Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. IBG LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
abstract-idea civil-procedure computer-implemented-invention computer-implemented-inventions federal-circuit innovation patent-act patent-act-1952 patent-eligibility standing |
In Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, 573 U.S. 208 (2014), the Court declined once again to define the scope of the "abstract idea" exce… |
| 19-120 |
IBG LLC, et al. v. Trading Technologies International, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
america-invents-act covered-business-method federal-circuit federal-circuit-split patent-eligibility patent-review patent-validity statutory-interpretation technological-invention |
Whether a patent that does not satisfy the first prong of § 42.301(b)—that is, that does not recite a novel and non-obvious technological feature—clai… |
| 19-103 |
StrikeForce Technologies, Inc. v. SecureAuth Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
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35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test berkheimer-v-hp federal-circuit inventive-concept patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter step-two-analysis well-understood-routine-and-conventional well-understood-routine-conventional |
Whether the Federal Circuit conducted the proper analysis under step two of Alice, as this Court will explain it, should certiorari be granted in Berk… |
| 19-43 |
Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 alice-standard alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law patent-litigation rule-36-affirmance section-101 |
Has the Federal Circuit correctly implemented the standards for patent eligibility set forth in 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice v. CLS Bank? |
| 18A1325 |
Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
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alice-corp claim-construction federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 |
Whether the Federal Circuit has improperly interpreted patent eligibility standards under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a manner inconsistent with Supreme Court … |
| 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 |
| 18-1448 |
Glasswall Solutions Limited, et al. v. Clearswift Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
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35-usc-101 berkheimer berkheimer-standard conclusory-legal-assertions federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-infringement patent-specification pleading presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 twombly |
Whether the claimed invention improves computer function by eliminating a then-conventional method |
| 18-1397 |
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… |
| 18-1274 |
In Re Urvashi Bhagat |
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2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
35-usc-101 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act bilski-v-kappos federal-circuit-discretion graham-v-deere graham-v-john-deere judicial-discretion patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent uspto-discretion |
Whether the USPTO abused its discretion by refusing to allow claims that passed every requirement of Title 35 by insisting on extra-statutory requirem… |
| 18-1223 |
Mario Villena, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
35-usc-101 35-usc-102-103 administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-test judicial-review patent-eligibility patent-examination patent-trial-and-appeal-board preemption section-101 statutory-interpretation uspto well-understood-routine-conventional |
Rejection of patent claims under 35 U.S.C. § 101 without addressing each limitation separately and as an ordered combination, lack of substantial evid… |
| 18-1199 |
InvestPic, LLC v. SAP America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Amici (8) |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-v-cls-bank computer-implemented-process federal-circuit inventive-concept judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility physical-realm preemption |
Whether the Federal Circuit's physical realm' test contravenes the Patent Act and Supreme Court precedent by categorically excluding otherwise patenta… |
| 18-1114 |
TS Patents LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 ashcroft-v-iqbal claim-dismissal federal-circuit novel-improvements novel-invention novel-technical-improvements patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 patent-infringement patent-presumption patent-validity presumption-of-validity routine-and-conventional rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 technical-improvements |
Can a court dismiss a patent infringement complaint under Rule 12(b)(6), for a lack of patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. $101, when the complaint and… |
| 18-1088 |
Kamran Asghari-Kamrani, et al. v. United Services Automobile Association |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 constitutional-grant constitutional-power judicial-exceptions patent-act patent-eligibility statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-test |
Whether the Court's 'judicial exceptions' test for patent eligibility is unconstitutional and deviates from the plain language of Section 101 of the P… |
| 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 |
| 18-817 |
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) |
generic-drugs inventive-concept medical-patent medical-treatment method-of-treatment natural-law patent-eligibility routine-and-conventional section-101 |
Whether patents that claim a method of medically treating a patient automatically satisfy Section 101 of the Patent Act, even if they apply a natural … |
| 18-692 |
Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al. v. UCB, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
35-usc-103 double-patenting federal-circuit graham-factors graham-v-john-deere invention-disclosure lead-compound-test obviousness patent-eligibility patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-double-patenting patent-validity prior-art |
Whether a patentee may obtain a second patent on the same invention actually covered by a former patent to the same patentee |
| 18-415 |
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… |
| 18-414 |
Carl M. Burnett v. Panasonic Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 analog-signal civil-procedure digital-data digital-signal electromagnetic-signal electronic-data evidence patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-35-usc-101 subject-matter-eligibility tangible-embodiment |
Whether electronic data is the tangible embodiment of an electromagnetic analog or digital signal and is therefore patent-eligible subject matter |
| 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 |
| 18-277 |
Urvashi Bhagat v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Rehearing |
Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
' '35-usc-101" ' 'administrative-procedure-act' ' 'funk-brothers" ' 'myriad-genetics" ' 'patent-eligibility" ' 'patent-system" 35-usc-101 administrative-procedure-act Funk-Brothers Myriad patent-eligibility USPTO |
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in finding petitioner's patent application claims unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101 due to conflicting standards of… |
| 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… |
| 18-189 |
Smartflash LLC v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-101 administrative-patent-judges appointments-clause covered-business-method-review due-process patent-eligibility patent-invalidation patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers |
Whether Administrative Patent Judges are principal Officers under the Appointments Clause |
| 18-124 |
Two-Way Media Ltd. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
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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 |