1. “Whether the district court erred in applying prosecution laches to declare the ’885 and ’966 patents unenforceable, based on nothing but standard continuation practice that did not extend the...
“The principal issue presented is whether the district court erred in limiting the terms ‘branched alkyl’ and ‘branched C10-C20 alkyl’ through lexicography to require one carbon atom in the group...
“[O]nce a plaintiff has established a prima facie case under the Equal Pay Act, is an agency’s reliance on prior salary alone sufficient to carry its burden of establishing as...
1. “Whether the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (Veterans Court) erred in issuing a writ of mandamus that did not aid its exercise of actual or prospective...
“Whether it was arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, clearly erroneous, or otherwise not in accordance with the law for:”
“Judge Davis to uncritically accept that the Special Master had the...
1. “Whether the domicile address requirement is invalid because it is not a logical outgrowth of the PTO’s notice of proposed rulemaking, which affirmatively repudiated any impact on U.S. applicants...
1. “Whether the structure for instituting and funding AIA post-grant reviews violates the Due Process Clause in view of Tumey v. Ohio, 273 U.S. 510 (1927), and its progeny, which...
1. “Whether, in using the term ‘modification’ in Section 204(b)(1)(B), Congress limited the President to ‘trade-liberalizing’ modifications, prohibiting the President from modifying a safeguard to revoke an improvidently-granted exclusion and...
1. “Whether patent term adjustments should be treated in the same way as patent term extensions for purposes of non-statutory obviousness-type double patenting.”
2. “Whether a patent can become a basis...
1. “Whether the PTAB relied on the wrong legal standard in determining structural obviousness, because it ignored whether a skilled artisan: would have been motivated to deuterate ruxolitinib to alter...
1. “Did the district court err in concluding that all seven asserted patents in three distinct patent families comprising 211 total claims, each of which discloses discrete methods and systems...
1. “Whether the special master abused his discretion by denying relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(1) when a mistake of fact infected the special master’s decision denying compensation.”
2. “Whether the...
1. “Whether the Board erred in finding that Besanceney’s December 2016 disclosure to his supervisors about the lack of probable cause for a search warrant was not protected, when that...
1. “Whether the magistrate judge erred in holding that Mr. Jenkins could not assert a compensable takings claim arising from the federal government’s physical appropriation of his property outside of...
“Whether the CFC’s judgment that the United States is liable for a taking of private property should be reversed on any of the following grounds:
1. The CFC applied an incorrect...
1. “Did the Board err by disregarding the plain meaning of the claims in light of the claim language and specification that require the claimed ‘time select switch . ....
1. “Whether the court erred by applying the Contract Disputes Act’s appellate standard of de novo review.”
2. “Whether the court erred by (a) disregarding as irrelevant or giving little weight...
1. “Can the full MSPB authorize removal of an Administrative Law Judge based in part on that Judge’s explicit adherence to written Agency Policy?”
2. “Can the full MSPB deprive Petitioner...
1. Whether “[t]he Claims Court committed clear error by holding that ‘valid informal claims are only those that [have] not misled the [IRS] and [have been] accepted and treated by...
“Whether the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals erred in holding that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over Lockheed Martin’s appeal from two Air Force modifications that unilaterally definitized contract...
