| 25A845 |
CAO Lighting, Inc. v. Wolfspeed, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-23 |
Application |
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administrative-procedure agency-deference due-process federal-circuit patent-review summary-affirmance |
Question not identified. |
| 25A713 |
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation v. Unified Patents, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
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america-invents-act informational-right patent-review real-parties-interest standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A777 |
ATOS, LLC, dba RideMetric v. Allstate Insurance Company |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review due-process federal-circuit patent-review ptab-decision summary-affirmance |
Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of summarily affirming Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions without issuing reasoned opinions violates due p… |
| 23-1298 |
United Therapeutics Corporation v. Liquidia Technologies, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law chevron chevron-deference civil-procedure inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the IPR statute and SAS require the Federal Circuit to review de novo, or only for an abuse of discretion, the PTO's reliance on new grounds a… |
| 23-1023 |
Jodi A. Schwendimann v. Neenah, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
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and making it impossible for Patent Owner to seek and the Federal Circuit's Rule 36 affirmance does thereby making it impossible for Patent Owner and claim-anticipation federal-circuit judicial-transparency patent-claim-construction patent-law,patent-claim-construction,federal-circu patent-review rule-36-judgment |
Is it permissible for the Federal Circuit to issue a Rule 36 Judgment, affirming certain claims as anticipated, where the Federal Circuit has been pre… |
| 23A766 |
Purdue Pharma L.P., et al. v. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-agency agency-authority jurisdictional-interpretation patent-review statutory-construction statutory-deadline |
Whether a statutory deadline imposed by Congress on an administrative agency is jurisdictional or merely hortatory, and the extent to which an agency … |
| 23-135 |
Intel Corporation, et al. v. Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking inter-partes-review judicial-review patent patent-and-trademark-office patent-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) precludes review of PTO rules setting standards governing IPR institution decisions |
| 21-1036 |
Gamon Plus, Inc. v. Campbell Soup Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appointments-clause arthrex-precedent federal-circuit judicial-remand patent-law patent-review rehearing-petition remand separation-of-powers |
Whether the Court should vacate the judgment below and remand for further proceedings in light of Arthrex |
| 21-888 |
Intel Corporation v. VLSI Technology LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-rule agency-rulemaking arbitrary-or-capricious federal-circuit inter-partes-review leahy-smith-act leahy-smith-america-invents-act notice-and-comment-rulemaking patent patent-review |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denyin… |
| 21-118 |
Apple Inc. v. Optis Cellular Technology, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law agency-rulemaking federal-circuit inter-partes-review judicial-review leahy-smith-america-invents-act mandamus-petition patent patent-review uspto |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may review, by appeal or mandamus, a decision of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office denying … |
| 20-1700 |
Ultratec, Inc. v. CaptionCall, LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
5th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process federal-circuit federal-circuit-rule-36 inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-validity retroactivity |
Does retroactive application of the inter partes review process violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutio… |
| 20-675 |
Lone Star Silicon Innovations LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
35-usc-311-312 35-usc-314 35-usc-318 administrative-law inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-invalidation patent-procedure patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board |
Whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board may invalidate patent claims based on a ground not asserted by the petitioner |
| 20-333 |
Bozeman Financial LLC v. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
america-invents-act federal-government federal-reserve-banks federal-reserve-system government-entity patent patent-review post-issuance-review return-mail-decision return-mail-v-usps standing |
Whether the regional Federal Reserve Banks are distinct from the Federal Government and qualify as 'persons' permitted to seek post-issuance patent re… |
| 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 |
Whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's application of the statutory requirements for patentability under 35 U.S.C. §§ 101, 102, 103, and 112 was … |
| 19-8860 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
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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… |
| 19-966 |
Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-101 35-usc-103 35-usc-324 administrative-law america-invents-act cbm-patent covered-business-method judicial-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation |
Whether 35 U.S.C. 324(e) permits review on appeal of the Director's threshold determination, as part of the decision to institute CBM review, that the… |
| 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… |
| 18-1075 |
RPX Corporation v. Applications in Internet Time, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
35-usc-314 35-usc-315 administrative-law inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office-decision patent-review patent-review-procedure statutory-interpretation timeliness timeliness-objection |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) bars judicial review of the Patent and Trademark Office's decision to institute inter partes review where a patent holder's… |
| 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… |
| 18-468 |
SSL Services, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-325(d) administrative-law administrative-procedure estoppel inter-partes-review judicial-review patent-office patent-review patent-validity predictability prior-art statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts may review an agency's ruling on the multiple-proceedings rule under 35 U.S.C. § 325(d) |
| 18-88 |
Richard Gramm v. Deere & Company |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
GVR |
|
certiorari claim-construction claim-institution federal-circuit inter-partes-review patent patent-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board ptab sas-institute-v-iancu supreme-court-procedure |
Whether the Federal Circuit's decision affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's final written decisions of the partially instituted inter partes … |