patent-litigation
11 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-17 | D R Burton Healthcare LLC v. Trudell Medical International Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Response Waived | case-management civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment patent-litigation trial-timeline | Whether a district court's order changing the time to trial from 326 to 146 days, and discovery time from 231 to 108 days, constitutes a fair legal pr… |
| 24A577 | Koss Corporation v. Bose Corporation | Federal Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Presumed Complete | federal-circuit issue-estoppel patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-preclusion pleading-sufficiency | Whether issue preclusion can apply to a district court's dismissal with leave to amend when the amended complaint is subsequently filed and the case i… | |
| 24A8 | Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-circuit judicial-discretion patent-litigation vexatious-litigant | Whether the Federal Circuit's use of the term 'vexatious litigant' violates due process by failing to provide fair notice and constituting an unconsti… | |
| 23A1107 | Abbott Laboratories, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Presumed Complete | attorney-client-privilege crime-fraud-exception mandamus patent-litigation sham-litigation work-product-privilege | Whether the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege can be applied to sham litigation or other non-criminal conduct beyond traditional frau… | |
| 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? |
| 21-406 | 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… |
| 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 |
| 19-1132 | Blackbird Tech LLC, dba Blackbird Technologies v. Health in Motion LLC, dba Inspire Fitness, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees case-by-case-analysis exceptional-case judicial-determination litigating-position litigation-discretion octane-fitness patent-act patent-law patent-litigation | Can a court consider factors unrelated to the instant case in determining whether a particular case is exceptional? |
| 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? |
| 18-861 | WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corporation | Federal Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | agency-procedure discovery due-process inter-partes-review patent-invalidation patent-litigation patent-office patent-office-procedures privy real-party-in-interest standing statutory-interpretation time-bar | Whether the court of appeals and agency erred by holding that 'real party in interest, or privy of the petitioner' refers only to others who 'control'… |
| 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… |