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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-853 | United Services Automobile Association v. PNC Bank N.A. | Federal Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | abstract-idea alice-framework federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 technological-process | Whether the Federal Circuit has wrongly extended the prohibition on patenting an 'abstract idea' to prohibit patenting concrete technological processe… |
| 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… | |
| 25-505 | Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response Waived | judicial-exceptions machine-learning patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption section-101 | Whether the Federal Circuit's approach to patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 improperly interprets judicial exceptions to patent-eligible subjec… |
| 24A517 | Broadband iTV, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Presumed Complete | abstract-idea alice-test electronic-program-guide patent-eligibility section-101 software-patent | Whether the Alice two-step test for patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §101 improperly constrains patent protection for technological innovations in e… | |
| 24A497 | Audio Evolution Diagnostics, Inc. v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Presumed Complete | alice-doctrine federal-circuit mayo-standard patent-eligibility section-101 technological-innovation | Whether the Federal Circuit's current approach to patent eligibility under Section 101 creates unconstitutional uncertainty and undermines technologic… | |
| 24A485 | Impact Engine, Inc. v. Google LLC | Federal Circuit | 2024-11-15 | Presumed Complete | alice-framework means-plus-function patent-claim patent-eligibility section-101 section-112 | Whether the interpretation of 35 U.S.C. § 101 patent eligibility requires consideration of the specific structural limitations defined under 35 U.S.C.… | |
| 24-47 | Return Mail, Inc. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corporation-v-cls-bank innovation judicial-interpretation patent patent-eligibility patent-law return-mail-inc-v-united-states-postal-service section-101 | Whether the claimed invention is ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to 35 U.S.C. §101 | |
| 23-1184 | Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 alice alice-test computer-network distributed-computing functional-claiming patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 specificity-of-description | Whether claims drawn to solving specific problems restricting the usefulness of an existing computer-network technology recite patent-eligible subject… |
| 23-498 | Realtime Data LLC, dba IXO v. Fortinet, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea computer-functioning data-compression federal-circuit patent patent-claims patent-eligibility section-101 standing | Whether the claimed inventions are ineligible for patent protection under the abstract-idea exception to Section 101 |
| 23A95 | ChromaDex, Inc., et al. v. Elysium Health, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2023-08-01 | Presumed Complete | composition-of-matter isolated-natural-substance markedly-different-characteristics myriad-genetics patent-eligibility section-101 | Whether a composition containing an isolated natural substance that exhibits markedly different characteristics from the substance as it appears in na… | |
| 22-1220 | Jeffrey A. Killian v. Katherine K. Vidal, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-doctrine alice-mayo-test due-process federal-circuit patent-eligibility section-101 uspto | Whether the Federal Circuit's departures from Supreme Court precedent in applying the Alice/Mayo test have enabled the USPTO to violate the Administra… |
| 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… |
| 22-822 | Avery Dennison Corporation v. ADASA Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2023-03-01 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 binary-encoding most-significant-bits patent-claim patent-eligibility rfid rfid-technology section-101 serial-number | Whether the patent claim, by subdividing a serial number into 'most significant bits' that are assigned such that they remain identical across RFID ta… |
| 21-1554 | Worlds Inc. v. Activision Blizzard Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea filtering patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility section-101 software-invention summary-judgment well-known-routine-conventional | What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is 'directed to' a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two… |
| 21-1281 | Interactive Wearables, LLC v. Polar Electro Oy, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-03-22 | Denied | CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea claim-construction enablement judicial-exceptions legal-standard patent-eligibility patent-subject-matter section-101 two-step-framework | What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is 'directed to' a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Court's two… |
| 21-1228 | Ameranth, Inc. v. Olo, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | 35-usc-101 alice-framework alice-two-step claim-construction judicial-exception patent-eligibility patent-ineligibility patent-ineligible-concept question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 | What is the appropriate standard for determining patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101? | |
| 21-1106 | Thaddeus Gabara v. Facebook, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2022-02-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea data-structure patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption prior-art section-101 two-step-framework | What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is 'directed to' a patent-ineligible concept under step 1 of the Court's two-s… |
| 21-1056 | Universal Secure Registry LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Amici (2) | 35-usc-101 alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-test federal-circuit patent-act patent-eligibility section-101 specificity unconventionality unexpected-results | Does patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 require 'specificity,' 'unexpected results' and 'unconventionality' in conflict with the Patent Act and … |
| 21-812 | WhitServe LLC v. Dropbox, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 enablement patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art presumption-of-validity rule-12(b)(6) rule-12b6 section-101 technological-improvement | If a patentee makes factual assertions and provides supporting evidence that its claimed invention is directed to patent-eligible subject matter under… |
| 21-6050 | James Bongiorno v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abstract-idea cantrell-v-wallick electronic-unit functional-improvement hardware-structures machine machine-patent patent-eligibility section-101 | Whether a new and non-obvious 'dedicated electronic unit' with new hardware structures including a plurality of 'special function buttons' is a patent… |
| 21-457 | ENCO Systems, Inc. v. DaVincia, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea federal-circuit patent patent-claim patent-eligibility patent-protection patent-system section-101 | What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is directed to a patent-ineligible concept when determining whether an inventi… |
| 21-209 | Huping Hu, et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 intellectual-property judicial-exceptions natural-phenomenon operability-standard patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art quantum-entanglement reproducibility-of-results scientific-discovery section-101 | Whether the PTO's standards for determining operability under § 101 are biased against groundbreaking inventions |
| 20-1760 | iLife Technologies, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | 35-usc-101 claim-interpretation judicial-framework legal-standard patent patent-claim patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standard | What is the appropriate standard for determining patent-eligibility under 35 USC 101? | |
| 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 |
| 20-892 | Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Illumina, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | and analyzing the separated DNA for diagnostic pu using well-known laboratory techniques is unpaten 35-usc-101 abstract-ideas diagnostic diagnostic-method dna dna-analysis dna-fragments laboratory-techniques myriad-decision myriad-doctrine natural-phenomena patent patent-eligibility section-101 | Whether a patent that claims nothing more than a method for separating smaller DNA fragments from larger ones, and analyzing the separated DNA for dia… |
| 20-453 | Consumer 2.0, Inc., dba Rently v. Tenant Turner, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 alice-test conventional-features graham-v-john-deere hindsight-bias patent-eligibility preemption section-101 section-103 | Whether preemption is a threshold and defining consideration that the lower courts must consider in determining whether a claimed invention is directe… |
| 20-439 | Mantissa Corporation v. Ondot Systems, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-exception fact-finding patent-eligibility pre-emption section-101 technical-field | Does the Alice exception to patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 improperly cover inventions that improve another technology or technical field? | |
| 20-32 | Steve Morsa v. Andre Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea claims-analysis federal-circuit patent patent-eligibility patent-office preemption section-101 undue-preemption | May the Federal Circuit and Patent Office ignore this Court's seminal Cuno decision? |
| 19-1299 | The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Techtronic Industries Co., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-05-19 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-v-cls claim-construction federal-circuit machine-invention machine-or-transformation patent patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption section-101 | Whether the Federal Circuit improperly expanded § 101's narrow implicit exceptions by failing to properly assess Chamberlain's claims 'as a whole', wh… |
| 19-1103 | INO Therapeutics LLC, et al. v. Praxair Distribution Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 35-usc-101 drug-administration due-process eligibility innovation medical-research medical-treatment method-of-treatment patent patent-eligibility patient-outcomes personalized-medicine section-101 selective-treatment | Whether a method of treatment that requires doctors to selectively administer a drug to certain patients and not others to enhance patient outcomes is… |
| 19-597 | Morris Reese v. Sprint Nextel Corporation, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework alice-v-cls-bank federal-circuit mayo-v-prometheus patent-eligibility patent-ineligible-concept patent-law section-101 | Whether the claims at issue are directed to an abstract idea under 35 U.S.C. § 101 |
| 19-521 | ChargePoint, Inc. v. SemaConnect, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Amici (2) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-corp-v-cls-bank alice-v-cls-bank diamond-v-diehr innovation judicial-interpretation machine-or-process patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 | Whether a patent claim to a new and useful improvement to a machine or process may be patent eligible even when it 'involves' or incorporates an abstr… |
| 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? |
| 18A1325 | Power Analytics Corporation v. Operation Technology, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Presumed Complete | alice-corp claim-construction federal-circuit patent-eligibility patent-law section-101 | Whether the Federal Circuit has improperly interpreted patent eligibility standards under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in a manner inconsistent with Supreme Court … | |
| 18-1223 | Mario Villena, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Amici (1) | 35-usc-101 35-usc-102-103 administrative-procedure-act alice-mayo-test judicial-review patent-eligibility patent-examination patent-trial-and-appeal-board preemption section-101 statutory-interpretation uspto well-understood-routine-conventional | Rejection of patent claims under 35 U.S.C. § 101 without addressing each limitation separately and as an ordered combination, lack of substantial evid… |
| 18-817 | Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. v. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) | generic-drugs inventive-concept medical-patent medical-treatment method-of-treatment natural-law patent-eligibility routine-and-conventional section-101 | Whether patents that claim a method of medically treating a patient automatically satisfy Section 101 of the Patent Act, even if they apply a natural … |
| 18-415 | HP Inc., fka Hewlett-Packard Company v. Steven E. Berkheimer | Federal Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | CVSGAmici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea alice-framework civil-procedure claim-construction inventive-concept judicial-exception patent patent-eligibility question-of-fact question-of-law section-101 standing | Whether patent eligibility is a question of law for the court based on the scope of the claims or a question of fact for the jury based on the state o… |
| 18-124 | Two-Way Media Ltd. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | 35-usc-101 abstract-idea factual-questions innovation-specificity motion-to-dismiss patent-claims patent-eligibility patent-eligibility-under-35-usc-101 patent-specification section-101 specificity-requirement technological-architecture | Innovative-technological-architecture-for-online-media-streaming |