“Whether inmates in this country have the capacity to sue for patent infringement.”
“Whether prison administrative regulations are capable of superseding dedicated capacity-to-sue legislation (in this case, N.J. Stat. Ann.ยง 2A:15-1).”
“Whether an inmate’s violation of institutional anti-business rules warrants the judicial extinguishment of his or her suing capacity.”
“Whether courts have an independent duty to give statutes supremacy over regulations, regardless of issue-preservation requirements.”
“whether an inmate’s loss of suing capacity under the circumstances presented will discourage disclosure of inventions and thereby inflict irreparable injury on the United States patent system and its beneficiaries.”
