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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.”

Hologic, Inc. v. Minerva Surgical, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

“[W]hether an assignor of a patent may circumvent the doctrine of assignor estoppel by challenging the validity of the assigned patent in administrative proceedings before the Patent Office, and then...

InfoBionic, Inc. v. Cardionet, LLC

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“Whether the Federal Circuit has properly narrowed the scope of the abstract idea exception under 35 U.S.C. § 101.”

Golden v. United States

Question(s) Presented

“If the Government: on the Executive level accepts a person’s intellectual property, passes it on to a government agency to be used with the public without paying just compensation; on...

Rutila v. Department of Transportation

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Whether the Merit Systems Protection Board violated Petitioner’s due process rights when an administrative judge failed to provide him a hearing, in violation of 5 U.S.C. § 7701(a), having not...

Consumer 2.0, Inc. v. Tenant Turner, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

1. “Whether preemption is a threshold and defining consideration that the lower courts must consider in determining whether a claimed invention is directed to patent eligible subject matter under Section...

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...

Mantissa Corp. v. Ondot Systems, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

1. “Has this Court’s Alice exception to patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 been improperly expanded to cover computer-implemented inventions that, while not necessarily improving the functioning of a computer,...

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.”

Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC v. Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Question(s) Presented

1. “Whether, as the Federal Circuit has held, a genus claim is not enabled ‘as a matter of law’ if it encompasses a large number of compounds—or whether, as this...

Wilkins v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of California

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Cochlear Corp. v. Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research

Question(s) Presented

1. “Whether the Federal Circuit has misapplied the ‘book of wisdom’ set forth in Sinclair Refining Co. v. Jenkins Petroleum Process Co., 289 U.S. 689 (1933), by allowing a reasonable...

Bozeman Financial LLC v. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Question(s) Presented

“Whether the regional Federal Reserve Banks—the ‘operating arms’ of the Federal Reserve System, which is the central bank of the United States—are ‘distinct’ from the Federal Government, and qualify as...

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...

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Rovi Guides, 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 United States Patent and Trademark Office are principal officers...

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...

ThermoLife International LLC v. Iancu

Question(s) Presented

1. “Whether the Federal Circuit violated the Chenery doctrine by making new factual findings in the first instance on appeal to affirm a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal...

Strand v. United States

Question(s) Presented

“In the wake of World War II, Congress established corrections boards for military records to help ensure that military members had a way to seek relief from harsh outcomes in...

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,...

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