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Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, Aventisub LLC
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Patent4 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“Whether enablement is governed by the statutory requirement that the specification teach those skilled in the art to ‘make and use’ the claimed invention, 35 U.S.C. § 112, or whether...
Date
January 23, 2023
Case
Arellano v. McDonough
Subject
Veterans7 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“Under 38 U.S.C. § 5110(b)(1), ‘[t]he effective date of an award of disability compensation to a veteran shall be the day following the date of the veteran’s discharge or release...
Date
June 15, 2022
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George v. McDonough
Subject
Veterans9 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“When the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denies a veteran’s claim for benefits in reliance on an agency interpretation that is later deemed invalid under the plain text of the...
Date
June 29, 2021
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Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc.
Subject
Patent15 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether a defendant in a patent infringement action who assigned the patent, or is in privity with an assignor of the patent, may have a defense of invalidity heard on...
Date
June 21, 2021
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United States v. Arthrex, Inc.
Subject
Patent38 Amici
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are principal officers who...
Date
June 21, 2021
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Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc.
Subject
Patent2 Amici
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are principal officers who...
Date
June 21, 2021
Case
Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Arthrex, Inc.
Subject
PatentAmicus
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are principal officers who...
Date
April 5, 2021
Case
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.
Subject
Copyright83 Amici
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether copyright protection extends to a software interface.” 2. “Whether, as the jury found, petitioner’s use of a software interface in the context of creating a new computer program constitutes...
Date
April 27, 2020
Case
Maine Community Health Options v. United States
Subject
Tucker Act14 Amici
Question(s) Presented
1. “Given the ‘cardinal rule’ disfavoring implied repeals—which applies with ‘especial force’ to appropriations acts and requires that repeal not be found unless the later enactment is ‘irreconcilable’ with the...
Date
April 27, 2020
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Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company v. United States
Subject
Tucker Act2 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“This case involves the ‘risk corridors’ program established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (‘ACA’), 42 U.S.C. § 18062, which mandates that for the first three years of...
Date
April 27, 2020
Case
Moda Health Plan, Inc. v. United States
Subject
Tucker Act9 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“To encourage health insurers to offer insurance on newly created health benefit exchanges, and to keep premiums low, the federal government made an unambiguous statutory commitment: If the costs of...
Date
April 23, 2020
Case
Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc.
Subject
Trademark6 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“Whether, under section 35 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), willful infringement is a prerequisite for an award of an infringer’s profits for a violation of section 43(a),...
Date
April 20, 2020
Case
Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP
Subject
Patent20 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“Whether 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) permits appeal of the PTAB’s decision to institute an inter partes review upon finding that § 315(b)’s time bar did not apply.”
Date
December 11, 2019
Case
Peter v. NantKwest, Inc.
Subject
Patent11 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“Section 145 of the Patent Act affords applicants ‘dissatisfied with the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’ an opportunity to file a civil action in the United States...
Date
June 26, 2019
Case
Kisor v. Wilkie
Subject
Procedure33 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“Whether the Court should overrule Auer [v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997)] and [Bowles v.] Seminole Rock [& Sand Co., 325 U.S. 410 (1945)].”
Date
June 24, 2019
Case
Iancu v. Brunetti
Subject
Trademark11 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. 1052(a), provides in pertinent part that a trademark shall be refused registration if it ‘[c]onsists of or comprises immoral . . ....
Date
June 10, 2019
Case
Return Mail, Inc. v. U.S. Postal Service
Subject
Patent13 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“In the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011, 35 U. S. C. §100 et seq., Congress created the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and established three new types of administrative...
Date
January 22, 2019
Case
Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.
Subject
Patent33 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“Whether, under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party that is obligated to keep the invention confidential qualifies as prior art for...
Date
June 22, 2018
Case
WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp.
Subject
Patent15 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“Under the Patent Act, a company can be liable for patent infringement if it ships components of a patented invention overseas to be assembled there. See 35 U.S.C. § 271(f)(2)....
Date
April 24, 2018
Case
SAS Institute, Inc. v. Iancu
Subject
Patent2 Amici
Question(s) Presented
“When the Patent Office initiates an inter partes review, must it resolve all of the claims in the case, or may it choose to limit its review to only some...