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Louis A. Piccone, Petitioner v. United States Patent and Trademark Office

Question(s) Presented

1. "Are Attorneys undergoing bar disciplinary proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to determine whether they may continue to practice their chosen profession, entitled to material exculpatory information...

Lakshmi Arunachalam, Petitioner v. SAP America, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

1. "Whether the inventor’s government-issued patent contract grant is protected by the Constitution of the United States. If so," 2. "Whether the inventor’s government-issued patent contract grant is impaired by the...

Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Presidio Bank

Question(s) Presented

1. "Whether this Court’s duty to enforce its Governing Precedents as declared by Chief Justice J. Marshall in Fletcher v. Peck (1810) and Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, (1819)...

Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Apple, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

1. "Whether the USPTO/PTAB (the “Agency”) and Federal Circuit were aware of the prohibition of the Constitution mandated by this Court against repudiating Government-issued contract grants prior to the enactment...

Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Question(s) Presented

1. "Whether it is 'misprision of treason' that eight Justices remained silent of Chief Justice Roberts’ conflict of interest against inventors as a member of the Knights of Malta with...

Christopher Primbas, et al., Petitioners v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office

Question(s) Presented

"Whether recitation in a patent claim of a combination of steps determined to be inventive over an idea is 'sufficient to ensure that the patent in practice amounts to significantly...

Polaris Innovations Ltd. v. Kingston Technology Co., Inc.

Question(s) Presented

1. "Whether severance of the tenure protections for Administrative Patent Judges ('APJs') was unavailable to the Arthrex court to remedy the violation of the Appointments Clause by the IPR statute,...

Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

1. "Whether the court of appeals’ severance remedy is consistent with congressional intent, where Congress has long considered tenure protections essential to secure the independence and impartiality of administrative judges." 2....

Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Arthrex, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

"Whether administrative patent judges are 'principal' or 'inferior' Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause."

Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH, Petitioner v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Question(s) Presented

1. "Whether, in a pending case, a court can refuse to entertain a constitutional, separation-of-powers challenge based on an intervening change of law on the grounds of forfeiture." 2. "Whether the...

C. Douglass Thomas, Petitioner v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office

Question(s) Presented

1. "Whether software innovations, simply because they are implemented on a general purpose computer, are ineligible for patenting unless they claim some hardware limitations beyond a general purpose computer that...

United States v. Arthrex, Inc.

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...

Richard Polidi, Petitioner v. Michelle K. Lee, et al.

Question(s) Presented

1. "Whether the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a legal or declaratory remedy, consistent with Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, in an instance when the same...

Michael A. Henry-Bey, Petitioner v. Hector Castro, et al.

Question(s) Presented

1. "Whether the court had federal question jurisdiction to hear the petitioner’s appeal, and if not, should the court have transferred the appeal to the court having the proper jurisdiction...

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

1. "Does the Judiciary have authority to review a Patent Office decision refusing to implement its mandate and this Court’s precedent?" 2. "May a petitioner appeal a decision terminating an instituted...

Phazzer Electronics, Inc. v. Taser International, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

1. "Is the Federal Circuit affirmation of the patent damages now incorrect in light of the change of circumstances created by the USPTO cancellation of all patent claims?" 2. "Is remand...

Betzaida P. Jernigan v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Question(s) Presented

1. "Is this a serious enough violation that merits judicial attention to remand in the 'interest of justice'?" 2. "Can justice defer judicial authority to an agency that knowingly relies on...

Ameranth, Inc. v. Domino's Pizza, LLC

Question(s) Presented

"Does the sua sponte judicial resolution on summary judgment of issues expressly excluded by pretrial order, and on which the moving party submitted no evidence to meet its burden, deprive...

Tonya Knowles, Petitioner v. Department of Veterans Affairs

Question(s) Presented

B.E. Technology, L.L.C., Petitioner v. Facebook, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

"[D]oes the standard for determining whether a defendant is a 'prevailing party' require the 'material alteration of the legal relationship of the parties' marked by 'judicial imprimatur,' or, as the...

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