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January 22, 2019

Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

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...

WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp.

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)....

SAS Institute, Inc. v. Iancu

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...

Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC

Question(s) Presented

“The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act, 35 U.S.C. § 100 et seq., establishes a process called ‘inter partes review.’ Under that process, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is...

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“Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. 1052(a), provides that no trademark shall be refused registration on account of its nature unless, inter alia, it ‘[c]onsists of . ....

Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc.

Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act

Question(s) Presented

“Under [42 U.S.C.] § 262(l), an applicant that seeks FDA approval of a biosimilar must provide its application materials and manufacturing information to the manufacturer of the corresponding biologic within...

Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

“This case presents two questions about the scope of the patent exhaustion doctrine: First, whether a patentee that sells an item under an express restriction on the purchaser’s right to...

TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC

Question(s) Presented

“The question presented in this case is where proper venue lies for a patent infringement lawsuit brought against a domestic corporation. The patent venue statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b), provides...

SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC

Question(s) Presented

“Whether and to what extent the defense of laches may bar a claim for patent infringement brought within the Patent Act’s six-year statutory limitations period, 35 U.S.C. § 286.”

February 22, 2017

Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp.

Question(s) Presented

“This case concerns the intersection of international supply chains and federal patent law. Section 271(f)(1) of the Patent Act of 1952 prohibits the supply from the United States of ‘all...

December 6, 2016

Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple Inc.

Question(s) Presented

“This case involves the infringement of designs for smartphones. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit identified the entire smartphone as the only permissible ‘article of manufacture’...

Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee

Question(s) Presented

“We consider two provisions of the [Leahy–Smith America Invents] Act.” 1. “The first says: ‘No Appeal.—The determination by the Director [of the Patent Office] whether to institute an inter partes review...

Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States

Question(s) Presented

“Petitioner Kingdomware Technologies, Inc., a veteran-owned small business, unsuccessfully vied for a federal contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide emergency-notification services. Kingdomware sued, arguing that the Department...

Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

“Section 284 of the Patent Act provides that, in a case of infringement, courts ‘may increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed.’ 35 U.S.C. §...

Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

“This case asks a question of first impression: whether knowledge of, or belief in, a patent’s validity is required for induced infringement under [35 U.S.C.] § 271(b).”

January 21, 2015

Department of Homeland Security v. MacLean

Question(s) Presented

“Federal law generally provides whistleblower protections to an employee who discloses information revealing ‘any violation of any law, rule, or regulation,’ or ‘a substantial and specific danger to public health...

January 20, 2015

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

“Whether a district court’s factual finding in support of its construction of a patent claim term may be reviewed de novo, as the Federal Circuit requires (and as the panel...

Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International

Question(s) Presented

“The patents at issue in this case disclose a computer-implemented scheme for mitigating ‘settlement risk’ (i.e., the risk that only one party to a financial transaction will pay what it...

Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

“This case presents the question whether a defendant may be liable for inducing infringement of a patent under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) when no one has directly infringed the patent...

Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

“The Patent Act requires that a patent specification “conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as [the] invention.”...

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