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25-896 Michael J. House v. General Electric Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law due-process patent-infringement seventh-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Supreme Court will preserve the 7th Amendment right to trial by jury in a civil case involving patent infringement and constitutional righ…
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 Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the scope of the 'abstract idea' exception to patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and refine the Alice t…
25-270 Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-injury estoppel federal-circuit intellectual-property patent-infringement patent-standing Whether the Federal Circuit erred in affirming summary judgment of non-infringement based on estoppel and constitutional standing in patent infringeme…
25-225 MSN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-08-26 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) after-arising-technology claim-construction federal-circuit patent-infringement patent-validity section-112 Whether, in a patent-infringement suit, a court may consider after arising technology to hold that the patent is invalid under § 112(a) of the Patent …
25-158 R. J. Reynolds Vapor Company v. Altria Client Services LLC Federal Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response Waived apportionment expert-testimony federal-circuit patent-damages patent-infringement royalty-calculation Does the Federal Circuit's 'built-in apportionment' exception violate Garretson v. Clark's requirement of apportionment in patent damages cases?
24-7441 In Re Amy R. Weissbrod Gurvey 2025-06-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-jurisdiction due-process ex-parte federal-circuit patent-infringement sovereign-immunity Whether the Supreme Court has a constitutional duty to exercise original jurisdiction in a patent infringement dispute between New York and California…
24-1137 NexStep, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied Response Waived doctrine-of-equivalents expert-testimony federal-circuit jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-law Whether a patentee must in every case present 'particularized testimony and linking argument' to establish infringement under the doctrine of equivale…
24-1058 CloudofChange, LLC v. NCR Corporation Federal Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response Waived direct-use federal-circuit method-claims patent-infringement system-claims vicarious-liability Whether the same vicarious liability analysis for direct use infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a) must be applied to both method and system claims
24-889 Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-02-19 Granted CVSGAmici (4)Relisted (3) carve-out generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act induced-infringement patent-infringement skinny-label QP: When a generic drug label fully carves out a patented use, are allegations that the generic drugmaker calls its product a 'generic version' and ci…
24-723 Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived federal-circuit judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-infringement seventh-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit applied an incorrect standard of review for appeals of a Judgment as a Matter of Law (JMOL) and improperly overturned a ju…
24A652 Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-12-31 Presumed Complete generic-drug hatch-waxman-act induced-infringement patent-infringement section-viii skinny-label Whether a generic drug manufacturer can be held liable for induced patent infringement when its label complies with the Hatch-Waxman Act's 'skinny lab…
24-428 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, et al. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-10-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) federal-circuit hatch-waxman-act patent-infringement regulatory-use safe-harbor statutory-interpretation Whether, under Hatch-Waxman's safe harbor, an infringing act is 'solely for uses reasonably related' to the federal regulatory process, when the infri…
24-114 Zebra Technologies Corporation v. Intellectual Tech LLC Federal Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii complex-contracts exclusionary-rights exclusive-licensee federal-circuit licensing-rights patent-infringement patent-standing standing patent-infringement
23-1052 Seirus Innovative Accessories, Inc. v. Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. Federal Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied Response Waived comparison-prior-art design-patent function functional-limitations infringement ornamental ornamental-design patent-infringement prior-art same-article Whether function must be disregarded in defining the scope of comparison prior art relevant to design patent infringement
23-7016 Gregory Chatten Stockman v. California California 2024-03-18 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-interpretation patent-infringement patent-licensing standing state-court-review Whether the terms and conditions of a patent license agreement are admissible as evidence in a patent infringement case
23-804 Liquidia Technologies, Inc. v. United Therapeutics Corporation Federal Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law federal-circuit induced-infringement inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-validity preclusion preclusion-doctrine ptab statutory-framework Whether a party may be liable for induced patent infringement when the PTAB has already issued a final written decision determining that the same pate…
23A565 Liquidia Technologies, Inc. v. United Therapeutics Corporation Federal Circuit 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete administrative-preclusion biotechnology-patents inter-partes-review issue-estoppel patent-infringement patent-validity Whether a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision finding patent claims unpatentable can serve as a defense to induced patent infringement befor…
23A562 Tarun Surti v. Fleet Engineers, Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete evidence-exclusion federal-circuit injunctive-relief mudflap-design patent-infringement patent-remedies Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the scope of patent infringement claims and remedies for a mudflap design patent un…
23-607 Morris S. Glover v. Daniel E. Cohen, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied bias case-document court-filing due-process legal-document patent-infringement petition prejudice pro-se scotus summary-judgment Is this a case of patent infringement where judges are abusing Summary Judgment at the request of the law firm; which showed bias, and prejudice towar…
23-574 Traxcell Technologies, LLC v. Sprint Communications Company LP, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-285 attorney-fees attorneys-fees claim-baselessness exceptional-case final-ruling litigation-conduct magistrate-ruling patent-infringement Where petitioner's patent infringement claims were not finally rejected until the district court judge approved the Magistrate Judge's ruling disposin…
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
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 Whether a new and useful method for measuring a natural phenomenon that improves upon prior methods for measuring that very same phenomenon is eligibl…
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…
22-298 Jump Rope Systems, LLC v. Coulter Ventures, LLC, dba Rogue Fitness Federal Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-estoppel federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-law patent-validity preclusion-doctrine restatement-of-judgments Whether a PTAB determination of unpatentability has collateral estoppel effect on patent validity in district court
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…
22-37 Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied CVSGAmici (5)Relisted (3) active-inducement fda-approval generic-drug generic-drugs hatch-waxman-act inducement-doctrine patent-infringement skinny-label Whether a generic drug manufacturer can be held liable for inducing infringement of a patent on a use that its FDA-approved label has expressly carved…
22-26 Larry G. Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response Waived commercial-offer contract-law federal-circuit on-sale-bar patent-infringement patent-invalidation prior-art standing third-party-quotation May a price quotation invoke the on-sale bar when made by a third party who had no right to sell the invention and with no involvement by the patentee…
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…
21-330 Amy R. Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived all-writs-act antitrust-patent appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split due-process federal-circuit local-circuit mandamus patent-infringement supervisory-mandamus usurpation-of-duty Which appeals court has the duty to issue supervisory writs of mandamus under the All Writs Act during a combined antitrust and patent infringement la…
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
20-1363 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
20-1284 Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso Federal Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention claim-construction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-abstention federal-jurisdiction patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-law state-court-proceedings Whether a federal court with exclusive jurisdiction over a federal patent-law dispute may abstain in favor of a state court with no jurisdiction over …
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
20-623 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 …
20-631 Hologic, Inc., et al. v. Minerva Surgical, Inc. Federal Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied administrative-proceedings america-invents-act assignor-estoppel collateral-estoppel infringement-litigation patent-infringement patent-office patent-validity Whether an assignor of a patent may circumvent the doctrine of assignor estoppel by challenging the validity of the assigned patent in administrative …
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
20-440 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…
20-362 Cochlear Corporation, et al. v. Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-284 apportionment book-of-wisdom circuit-split damages damages-calculation hypothetical-negotiation patent-infringement reasonable-royalty sinclair-refining Whether the Federal Circuit has misapplied the 'book of wisdom' set forth in Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co.
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 Whether a district court is permitted to overlook a patentee's factual assertions regarding patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101, including assert…
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…
19-1173 Comcast Corporation, et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Amici (3) article-iii-courts comcast domestic-patent-infringement federal-circuit importation international-trade-commission international-trade-commission-itc mootness patent-infringement section-337 section-337-tariff-act statutory-interpretation vacatur Whether the Federal Circuit's judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission's orders
19-1147 Willowood, LLC, et al. v. Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC Federal Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-U.S.C.-271(g) 35-usc-271 copyright-claims federal-circuit-review limelight-networks-v-akamai monopoly patent-infringement pesticide-labels single-entity-rule statutory-interpretation Whether the single entity rule applies to patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. §271(g)
19-1124 Chrimar Systems, Inc., dba CMS Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ale USA Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) administrative-agency administrative-law administrative-review article-iii-court article-iii-courts article-iii-jurisdiction damages damages-judgment executive-branch-decision federal-circuit finality finality-standard patent-infringement patent-law-finality patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-validity standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit may apply a finality standard for patent cases that conflicts with the standard applied by this Court and all other circui…
19-1110 Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation Federal Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge due-process federal-court federal-patent-statute federal-statute patent-infringement patent-venue personal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity sovereign-rights state-rights state-sovereign state-sovereignty Whether a state's sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional…
19-1061 Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Ltd., et al. v. Eli Lilly and Company Federal Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (2) claim-amendment doctrine-of-equivalents festo-corp-v-shoketsu festo-corp-v-shoketsu-kinzoku-kogyo-kabushiki-co patent-claim patent-infringement patent-law patent-law-doctrine-of-equivalents patent-prosecution prosecution-history-estoppel tangential-exception Whether patent owners may recapture subject matter they could have claimed in prosecution but did not, by arguing that they surrendered more than they…
19-1062 CJ CheilJedang Corp., et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (1) claim-amendment doctrine-of-equivalents festo-corp-v-shoketsu innovation patent-infringement patent-law prosecution-history-estoppel public-notice public-notice-function tangential-relation Whether, to avoid prosecution history estoppel under Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., 'the rationale underlying the amendment' mus…
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…
19-832 Apple Inc. v. VirnetX Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) apportionment apportionment-rule federal-circuit innovation license-valuation patent-damages patent-infringement patent-invalidation pending-litigation prior-licenses Whether the Federal Circuit's reliance on prior licenses to ascertain infringement damages, without satisfying apportionment rules, conflicts with thi…
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
19-450 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., et al. v. Perrigo Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review budinich-v-becton-dickinson compensatory-damages enhanced-damages exceptional-case jury-verdict merits-ruling patent-infringement punitive-enhancement reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing Whether the punitive enhancement under 35 U.S.C. § 284 is collateral to, and therefore not a merits ruling necessary for final judgment
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…
19-211 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
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…
19-101 Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review Whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, 'unrebutted,' and 'uncontradicted,' or…
18-1530 Enplas Display Device Corporation v. Seoul Semiconductor Company, Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-271(b) extraterritoriality global-tech global-tech-appliances induced-infringement inducement microsoft-v-att patent-infringement presumption-against presumption-against-extraterritoriality rjr-nabisco statutory-interpretation Whether, in view of the presumption against extraterritoriality, a foreign defendant's foreign sales of components to a foreign company qualifies as i…
18-1508 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied claim-construction de-novo-review due-process JMOL jury-fact-finding jury-fact-findings jury-findings jury-trial patent-infringement procedural-due-process remand seventh-amendment standard-of-review teva-v-sandoz Whether the Federal Circuit can construe a claim limitation de novo, disregarding the jury's implicit fact findings on the plain and ordinary meaning …
18A1232 Time Warner Cable, Inc., et al. v. Sprint Communications Company, L.P. Federal Circuit 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete apportionment federal-circuit jury-verdicts patent-damages patent-infringement written-description Whether the Federal Circuit improperly deviated from longstanding Supreme Court precedents on patent damages apportionment by authorizing unapportione…
18-1448 Glasswall Solutions Limited, et al. v. Clearswift Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied 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
18-8930 Amy Rebecca Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 28-usc-1295 28-usc-1338 attorney-misconduct conflicts-of-law constitutional-access federal-circuit patent-appeal-jurisdiction patent-appeals patent-conflicts-of-interest patent-damages patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-statutes pro-se-litigation Whether the Second Circuit was void of jurisdiction to adjudicate the instant appeal and improperly defied US patent statutes and Federal Circuit law
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
18-8613 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
18-1114 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…
18-1027 Superior Communications, Inc. v. Voltstar Technologies, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-02-06 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (4) 35-usc-314 35-usc-314d 35-usc-315 35-usc-315b administrative-law appealability inter-partes-review inter-partes-review-ipr patent-infringement patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board patent-trial-and-appeal-board-ptab statutory-interpretation time-bar voluntary-dismissal Whether the PTAB's application of 35 U.S.C. § 315(b)'s time-bar provision in its decision to institute IPR is appealable under 35 U.S.C. § 314(d), and…
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
18-916 Thryv, Inc., fka Dex Media, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-15 Judgment Issued Amici (18)Relisted (3) 35-usc-314 35-usc-315 america-invents-act cuozzo inter-partes-review patent-infringement patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab section-315b time-bar wi-fi-one Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) permits appeal of the PTAB's decision to institute an inter partes review upon finding that § 315(b)'s time bar did not app…
18-849 HTC Corporation v. 3G Licensing, S.A., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1391 28-usc-1400b federal-circuit foreign-defendant patent-infringement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation venue venue-statute Whether an atextual 'foreign defendant' exception exists to 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b)
18-779 Power Integrations Inc. v. Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied apportionment customer-demand entire-market-value-rule federal-circuit patent-damages patent-infringement patent-law patent-litigation willful-infringement Whether a plaintiff that proves that a patented feature creates the basis for customer demand for infringing products is entitled to patent damages ba…
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…
18-600 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
18-549 Voter Verified, Inc. v. Election Systems & Software LLC Federal Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied 35-usc-101 bilski-v-kappos collateral-estoppel declaratory-judgment federal-circuit issue-preclusion method-claims patent-infringement patent-validity res-judicata voting-method Whether the Federal Circuit erred in deciding that patent claims for a method of voting are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a second action for paten…
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…
18-276 Richard J. Baker v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response Waived article-i-section-8-clause-8 compensation constitutional-interpretation contract due-process government-compensation government-obligation invention-security judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings patent-infringement patent-rights property-protection property-rights takings trial Whether under rights given by Congress and contained in U.S. Constitution Article I Section 8 Clause 8 to all U.S. patent holders, courts must forward…
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
18-252 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…
18-52 Paul Andrew Leitner-Wise v. LWRC International, LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-100 35-usc-281 patent-assignment patent-fraud patent-infringement patent-law patent-royalties patent-standing patent-uniformity Whether the original inventor maintains statutory standing to sue for patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 281 even after assigning the patent, if th…
18-21 Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-court-precedent circuit-courts civil-procedure due-process factual-stipulation federal-circuit judicial-procedure legal-binding noninfringement patent-infringement precedent stipulation Whether the Federal Circuit may ignore a factual stipulation, contrary to this Court's precedent, and decisions of numerous circuit courts, holding th…