patent-prosecution

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-779 Bright Data Ltd. v. Code200, UAB, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response Waived claim-construction inter-partes-review patent-claim-scope patent-disclaimer patent-prosecution trademark-office-proceedings When a patentee disclaims subject matter from the scope of its claims by written statements made at any time during U.S. Patent and Trademark Office p…
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
20-1232 IBSA Institut Biochimique, S. A., et al. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. Federal Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response Waived foreign-inventors foreign-language indefiniteness national-treatment patent patent-indefiniteness patent-priority patent-prosecution priority-date trips-agreement Whether, pursuant to the United States' obligations under the TRIPS Agreement, codified at 19 U.S.C. § 3511, a court construing the claims of a U.S. 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…
19-8860 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2020-06-30 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP appointments-clause aqua-products arthrex constitutional-redress equal-protection fletcher-v-peck patent-prosecution patent-prosecution-history patent-review supreme-court-precedent virnetx Whether this Court must Order the Circuit Court to apply Arthrex, Virnetx, Aqua Products, consider Patent Prosecution History, and enforce Fletcher, i…
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…
18-9346 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bias civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction patent patent-prosecution procedural-fairness Whether preclusive effect should not be given to agency/court determination where a financially conflicted agency/court lacked jurisdiction to adjudic…
18-1285 Gilbert P. Hyatt, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Amici (2) administrative-law mandamus manual-of-patent-examining-procedure patent-act patent-and-trademark-office patent-appeal patent-appeal-rights patent-appeals patent-examination patent-examiner patent-office patent-office-procedure patent-prosecution statutory-interpretation steinmetz-v-allen Whether MPEP § 1207.04 violates patent applicants' statutory right of appeal following a second rejection