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Question(s) Presented
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June 2, 2014
Case
Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Subject
Patent
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...
Date
June 2, 2014
Case
Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc.
Subject
Patent
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.”...
Date
April 29, 2014
Case
Highmark Inc. v. Allcare Health Management System, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“Whether a district court’s exceptional-case finding under 35 U.S.C. § 285, based on its judgment that a suit is objectively baseless, is entitled to deference.”
Date
April 29, 2014
Case
Octane Fitness, LLC v. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“Section 285 of the Patent Act authorizes a district court to award attorney’s fees in patent litigation. It provides, in its entirety, that ‘[t]he court in exceptional cases may award...
Date
January 22, 2014
Case
Medtronic, Inc. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“A patentee ordinarily bears the burden of proving infringement. This case asks us to decide whether the burden of proof shifts when the patentee is a defendant in a declaratory...
Date
June 13, 2013
Case
Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether a naturally occurring segment of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is patent eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 by virtue of its isolation from the rest of the human genome. We...
Date
May 20, 2013
Case
Sebelius v. Cloer
Subject
Vaccine
Question(s) Presented
“The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (NCVIA or Act), 100 Stat. 3756, 42 U.S.C. § 300aa–1 et seq., provides that a court may award attorney’s fees and costs...
Date
May 13, 2013
Case
Bowman v. Monsanto Co.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“Under the doctrine of patent exhaustion, the authorized sale of a patented article gives the purchaser, or any subsequent owner, a right to use or resell that article. Such a...
Date
December 4, 2012
Case
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission v. United States
Subject
Takings
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether government actions that cause repeated floodings must be permanent or inevitably recurring to constitute a taking of property.”
Date
November 13, 2012
Case
United States v. Bormes
Subject
Little Tucker Act
Question(s) Presented
“[W]hether the Little Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. 1346(a)(2), waives the sovereign immunity of the United States with respect to damages actions for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15...
Date
April 18, 2012
Case
Kappos v. Hyatt
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“The Patent Act of 1952, 35 U.S.C. § 100 et seq., grants a patent applicant whose claims are denied by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) the opportunity to challenge...
Date
April 17, 2012
Case
Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. v. Novo Nordisk A/S
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) evaluates an application to market a generic drug, it considers whether the proposed drug would infringe a patent held by the manufacturer of...
Date
March 20, 2012
Case
Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“The case before us . . . . concerns patent claims covering processes that help doctors who use thiopurine drugs to treat patients with autoimmune diseases determine whether a given...
Date
June 13, 2011
Case
United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation
Subject
Attorney Client Privilege
Question(s) Presented
“The attorney-client privilege ranks among the oldest and most established evidentiary privileges known to our law. The common law, however, has recognized an exception to the privilege when a trustee...
Date
June 9, 2011
Case
Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“Under § 282 of the Patent Act of 1952, ‘[a] patent shall be presumed valid’ and ‘[t]he burden of establishing in-validity of a patent or any claim thereof shall rest...
Date
June 6, 2011
Case
Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“Since 1790, the patent law has operated on the premise that rights in an invention belong to the inventor. The question here is whether the University and Small Business Patent...
Date
May 31, 2011
Case
Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A.
Subject
Patent
Question(s) Presented
“We consider whether a party who ‘actively induces infringement of a patent’ under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) must know that the induced acts constitute patent infringement.”
Date
May 23, 2011
Case
General Dynamics Corp. v. United States
Subject
Gov. Contract
Question(s) Presented
“We consider what remedy is proper when, to protect state secrets, a court dismisses a Government contractor’s prima facie valid affirmative defense to the Government’s allegations of contractual breach.”
Date
April 26, 2011
Case
United States v. Tohono O'Odham Nation
Subject
Jurisdiction
Question(s) Presented
“The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the [Court of Federal Claims (CFC)] suit was not barred by the rule that the CFC lacks jurisdiction over an...
Date
March 1, 2011
Case
Henderson v. Shinseki
Subject
Veterans
Question(s) Presented
“A veteran whose claim for federal benefits is denied by the Board of Veterans’ Appeals may appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (Veterans Court). To...