rule-36
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A884 | CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd. v. Apple Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Application | federal-circuit patent-appeal patent-validity prior-art rule-36 unpatentability | Whether the Federal Circuit's Rule 36 summary affirmance without opinion improperly limits meaningful appellate review of Patent Trial and Appeal Boar… | |
| 25-6415 | Juan Viana-Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure custodial-sentence judicial-modification rule-36 sentencing | Whether a court may modify a custodial sentence under Rule 36 when the Bureau of Prisons refuses to carry out the imposed sentence |
| 25-375 | CPC Patent Technologies Pty Ltd. v. Apple Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-review appellate-procedure federal-circuit patent-law rule-36 statutory-interpretation | Whether Federal Circuit Rule 36 violates 35 U.S.C. § 144 by allowing affirmance without opinion when reviewing Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions |
| 22-803 | Virentem Ventures, LLC v. Google LLC | Federal Circuit | 2023-02-24 | Denied | Response Waived | claim-construction due-process federal-circuit patent patent-invalidity ptab ptab-determination rule-36 | Does the Federal Circuit's use of Rule 36 to affirm without opinion PTAB invalidity determinations that are challenged based on pure questions of law … |
| 21-158 | Bobcar Media, LLC v. Aardvark Event Logistics, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-circuit rule-36 seventh-amendment | Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36 and elucidate the constitutional and statutory boundar… |
| 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… |
| 18-1418 | Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., et al. v. Akorn, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-05-13 | Denied | 35-usc-144 federal-circuit mandate non-obviousness obviousness-standard opinion patent-appeal patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board rule-36 statutory-interpretation | Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144's directive that the Federal Circuit shall issue ... its mandate and opinion' in all appeals from the Patent and Trademark Off… |