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Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Promptu Systems Corp.

Question(s) Presented

“Whether administrative patent judges are ‘principal’ or ‘inferior’ Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause.”

Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Illumina, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

“Whether a patent that claims nothing more than a method for separating smaller DNA fragments from larger ones, and analyzing the separated DNA for diagnostic purposes, using well-known laboratory techniques...

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings, LLC

Question(s) Presented

1. “What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is ‘directed to’ a patent-ineligible concept under step 1 of the Court’s two-step framework for determining whether an...

Iancu v. Fall Line Patents, LLC

Question(s) Presented

“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 must...

Argentum Pharmaceuticals LLC v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

Question(s) Presented

“Did the Federal Circuit categorically and erroneously preclude redress for injured members of joint ventures in the pharmaceutical industry by only recognizing (1) the manufactu[r]ing partner in the joint venture,...

Khan v. Merit Medical Systems Inc.

Question(s) Presented

“Whether—in line with holdings from the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits—a motion for Rule 11 sanctions may be granted only if the motion is served...

Micron Technology, Inc. v. North Star Innovations, 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...

Rovi Guides, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Question(s) Presented

1. “Whether the severance and invalidation of administrative patent judges’ tenure protections is consistent with congressional intent.” 2. “Whether invalidation of administrative patent judges’ tenure protections is sufficient to render them...

Fredman Bros. Furniture Co. v. Bedgear, LLC

Question(s) Presented

“Whether administrative patent judges are ‘principal’ or ‘inferior’ Officers of the United States within the meaning of the Appointments Clause.”

RPM International Inc. v. Stuart

Question(s) Presented

1. “Whether the court of appeals erred by vacating and remanding the case based on an Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. Art. II, § 2, Cl. 2, challenge raised for the...

Vilox Technologies, LLC v. Iancu

Question(s) Presented

1. “Whether the court of appeals’ severance remedy of the Appointments Clause violation of Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) is consistent with congressional intent, where Congress has long considered tenure protections...

Sandoz Inc. v. Immunex Corp.

Question(s) Presented

“May the patent owner avoid the rule against double patenting by buying all of the substantial rights to a second, later-expiring patent for essentially the same invention, so long as...

Gadsden Industrial Park, LLC v. United States

Question(s) Presented

1. “Whether this Court should fill a statutory and jurisprudential void in Tucker Act inverse condemnation ‘takings’ law to resolve the obvious constitutional dilemma that confronted the Court of Federal...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. v. United States

Question(s) Presented

“Whether the Federal Circuit erred by affirming, in conflict with the D.C. Circuit, the practice that an administrative agency may penalize the subject of an agency determination for failure to...

Oracle America, Inc. v. United States

Question(s) Presented

1. “Whether a bid protest that establishes a violation of federal law may be denied for ‘harmless error’ based on a rationale not present in the administrative record.” 2. “Whether, in...

Wynkoop v. Department of Defense

Question(s) Presented

1. “Can the Federal Government violate a Federal Employee’s 5th Amendment right by depriving a federal employee of his or her property right (job) without due process-the right to respond...

Christy, Inc. v. United States

Question(s) Presented

1. “When a duly-issued patent is invalidated through a post-grant review process (such as an IPR), must compensation be paid under the Takings Clause?” 2. “When a duly-issued patent is invalidated...

Polaris Innovations Ltd. v. Kingston Technology Co.

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,...

Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

“[W]hether a defendant in a patent infringement action who assigned the patent, or is in privity with an assignor of the patent, may have a defense of invalidity heard on...

Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC

Question(s) Presented

“Whether 35 U.S.C. 324(e) permits review on appeal of the Director’s threshold determination, as part of the decision to institute [Covered Business Method] review, that the challenged patent qualifies as...

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