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Case
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Question(s) Presented
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...
Date
April 24, 2018
Case
Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC
Subject
Patent60 Amici
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...
Date
June 19, 2017
Case
Matal v. Tam
Subject
Trademark
Question(s) Presented
“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 . ....
Date
June 12, 2017
Case
Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc.
Subject
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...
Date
May 30, 2017
Case
Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc.
Subject
Patent
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...
Date
May 22, 2017
Case
TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC
Subject
Patent
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...
Date
March 21, 2017
Case
SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC
Subject
Patent
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.”
Date
February 22, 2017
Case
Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp.
Subject
Patent
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...
Date
December 6, 2016
Case
Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple Inc.
Subject
Patent
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’...
Date
June 20, 2016
Case
Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee
Subject
Patent
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...
Date
June 16, 2016
Case
Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States
Subject
Veterans
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...
Date
June 13, 2016
Case
Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc.
Subject
Patent
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. §...
Date
May 26, 2015
Case
Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc.
Subject
Patent
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).”
Date
January 21, 2015
Case
Department of Homeland Security v. MacLean
Subject
MSPB
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...
Date
January 20, 2015
Case
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc.
Subject
Patent14 Amici
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...
Date
June 19, 2014
Case
Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International
Subject
Patent
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...