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Case
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Question(s) Presented
Date
June 28, 2010
Case
Bilski v. Kappos
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether a patent can be issued for a claimed invention designed for the business world.”
Date
May 4, 2009
Case
Carlsbad Technology, Inc. v. HIF Bio, Inc.
Subject
Jurisdiction
Question(s) Presented
“In this case, we decide whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction to review a district court’s order that remands a case to state court after declining to exercise...
Date
April 21, 2009
Case
Shinseki v. Sanders
Subject
Veterans
Question(s) Presented
“Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that a failure of the [Veterans Administration] to give the notice required by the [Veterans Claims Assistance Act] must be presumed to...
Date
April 6, 2009
Case
United States v. Navajo Nation
Subject
Indian Tucker Act
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether the court of appeals’ holding that the United States breached fiduciary duties in connection with the Navajo coal lease amendments is foreclosed by [United States v. Navajo Nation,...
Date
January 26, 2009
Case
United States v. Eurodif S.A.
Subject
Trade
Question(s) Presented
“Section 731 of the Tariff Act of 1930 calls for ‘antidumping’ duties on ‘foreign merchandise’ sold in the United States at ‘less than its fair value,’ 19 U.S.C. § 1673,...
Date
June 9, 2008
Case
Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“In this case, we decide whether patent exhaustion applies to the sale of components of a patented system that must be combined with additional components in order to practice the...
Date
June 2, 2008
Case
Richlin Security Service Co. v. Chertoff
Subject
EAJA
Question(s) Presented
“The question presented in this case is whether the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 5 U.S.C. § 504(a)(l) (2006 ed.) and 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d)(1)(A) (2000 ed.), allows a...
Date
April 15, 2008
Case
United States v. Clintwood Elkhorn Mining Co.
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
“The question in this case is whether a taxpayer suing for a refund of taxes collected in violation of the Export Clause of the Constitution may proceed under the Tucker...
Date
January 8, 2008
Case
John R. Sand & Gravel Co. v. United States
Subject
Tucker Act
Question(s) Presented
“The question presented is whether a court must raise on its own the timeliness of a lawsuit filed in the Court of Federal Claims, despite the Government’s waiver of the...
Date
May 21, 2007
Case
Hinck v. United States
Subject
Tax
Question(s) Presented
“Sometimes it takes a while for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to determine that taxes should have been paid that were not. Section 6404(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code permits...
Date
April 30, 2007
Case
KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“Whether the Federal Circuit has erred in holding that a claimed invention cannot be held ‘obvious,’ and thus unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a), in the absence of some proven...
Date
April 30, 2007
Case
Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“(1) Whether digital software code—an intangible sequence of ‘1’s’ and ‘0’s’—may be considered a ‘component[] of a patented invention’ within the meaning of [35 U.S.C. §] 271(f)(1); and, if so,...
Date
January 9, 2007
Case
MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“We must decide whether Article III’s limitation of federal courts’ jurisdiction to ‘Cases’ and ‘Controversies,’ reflected in the ‘actual controversy’ requirement of the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201(a),...
Date
May 15, 2006
Case
eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“Whether the Federal Circuit erred in setting forth a general rule in patent cases that a district court must, absent exceptional circumstances, issue a permanent injunction after a finding of...
Date
March 1, 2006
Case
Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc.
Subject
Antitrust
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether the presumption of market power in a patented product should survive as a matter of antitrust law despite its demise in patent law.”
Date
January 23, 2006
Case
Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc.
Subject
Procedure
Question(s) Presented
“Whether the failure of a party to renew a motion for judgment as a matter of law following a jury verdict, in accordance with Rule 50(b) of the Federal Rules...
Date
June 13, 2005
Case
Merck KGaA v. Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“This case presents the question whether uses of patented inventions in preclinical research, the results of which are not ultimately included in a submission to the Food and Drug Administration...
Date
March 1, 2005
Case
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. Leavitt
Subject
Gov. Contract
Question(s) Presented
“The United States and two Indian Tribes have entered into agreements in which the Government promises to pay certain ‘contract support costs’ that the Tribes incurred during fiscal years (FYs)...
Date
May 3, 2004
Case
Scarborough v. Principi
Subject
EAJA
Question(s) Presented
“May a timely fee application, pursuant to [28 U.S.C.] § 2412(d), be amended after the 30–day filing period has run to cure an initial failure to allege that the Government’s...
Date
March 4, 2003
Case
United States v. Navajo Nation
Subject
Indian Tucker Act
Question(s) Presented
“This case concerns the Indian Mineral Leasing Act of 1938 (IMLA), 52 Stat. 347, 25 U.S.C. § 396a et seq., and the role it assigns to the Secretary of the...