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511 Petitions
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Case
Subject
Status
Question(s) Presented
Docket No.
19-1323
Case
B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Facebook, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Status
Denied
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...
Docket No.
19-1299
Case
The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Techtronic Industries Co.
Subject
Patent2 Amici
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Whether the Federal Circuit improperly expanded § 101’s narrow implicit exceptions by failing to properly assess Chamberlain’s claims ‘as a whole,’ where the claims recite an improvement to a machine...
Docket No.
19-1285
Case
Lea v. United States
Subject
Takings2 Amici
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether the federal statute, regulations, and contractual provisions governing the transfer and redemption of United States Savings Bonds preempt the State of Arkansas from obtaining ownership of matured but...
Docket No.
19-1279
Case
LaTurner v. United States
Subject
Financial2 Amici
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether States that have exercised their historic power to escheat title to abandoned United States savings bonds may redeem those bonds as successor owners, as the Third Circuit has...
Docket No.
19-1269
Case
TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
Subject
Patent6 Amici
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Whether a patent owner required to license its standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms has a Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in a proceeding seeking the...
Docket No.
19-1252
Case
Campbell v. United States
Subject
Tucker Act3 Amici
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Does the Tucker Act’s statute of limitations for a regulatory takings claim accrue when the Government makes a final decision, or when the plaintiff’s property rights are actually injured-in-fact as...
Docket No.
19-1232
Case
Bank v. Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik, Inc.
Subject
Trademark
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “In Matal v. Tam, 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), this Court held that the disparagement clause of Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a), which ‘prohibit[s]...
Docket No.
19-1228
Case
Kaneka Corporation v. Xiamen Kingdomway Group Company
Subject
Patent
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether under Rule 36 of the Federal Circuit’s Rules of Procedure the Federal Circuit may affirm a judgment of non-infringement without opinion and on alternative grounds first raised by...
Docket No.
19-1204
Case
Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“In 2011, Congress enacted a potent new mechanism for challenging patents through adversarial proceedings at the Patent Office known as inter partes review. See Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L....
Docket No.
19-120
Case
IBG LLC v. Trading Technologies International, Inc.
Subject
Patent
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“The America Invents Act, Pub. L. No. 112-29, 125 Stat. 284 (2011), and its attendant regulations establish a program for review of the eligibility and validity of ‘covered business method’...
Docket No.
19-1198
Case
CANVS Corp. v. Barrett
Subject
Gov. Contract
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “Can the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, an administrative panel, deprive a corporation of valuable intellectual property without due process?” 2. “Does due process require the ASBCA to consider...
Docket No.
19-1177
Case
American Institute for International Steel, Inc. v. United States
Subject
Trade4 Amici
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“This case presents a facial challenge to section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended, 19 U.S.C. § 1862, which the President has used to impose to...
Docket No.
19-1173
Case
Comcast Corp. v. International Trade Commission
Subject
Patent3 Amici
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether the Federal Circuit’s judgment should be vacated as moot and remanded with instructions to vacate the Commission’s orders, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36...
Docket No.
19-1147
Case
Willowood, LLC v. Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
Subject
Patent
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
1. “Whether liability for patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. §271(g) requires that all steps of a patented process must be practiced by, or at least attributable to, a single entity,...
Docket No.
19-1134
Case
Baley v. United States
Subject
Takings6 Amici
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Petitioners are a plaintiff class of Oregon and California farmers and ranchers who depend on their water rights in the Klamath River basin to irrigate their land. When the U.S....
Docket No.
19-1132
Case
Blackbird Tech LLC v. Health in Motion LLC
Subject
Patent
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“35 U.S.C. § 285 provides that a court ‘in exceptional cases may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party.’ In Octane Fitness, LLC v. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.,...
Docket No.
19-1131
Case
Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc. v. Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC
Subject
PatentAmicus
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Under 35 U.S.C. § 112, a patent’s specification must ‘contain a written description of the invention.’ That requirement, a cornerstone of federal patent law, ensures that an inventor can claim...
Docket No.
19-1129
Case
Fote v. Iancu
Subject
Rule 36
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning in an appeal that involves a complex and unsettled area of the law and in which a written...
Docket No.
19-1124
Case
Chrimar Systems, Inc. v. Ale USA Inc.
Subject
Patent5 Amici
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Chrimar brought an action for infringement against ALE under four patents. A jury rejected ALE’s invalidity defenses and awarded past damages. The District Court then awarded post-judgment ongoing royalties. The...
Docket No.
19-1110
Case
Board of Regents of the University of Texas System v. Boston Scientific Corporation
Subject
Patent
Status
Denied
Question(s) Presented
“Whether a state’s sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional a federal patent venue statute applied to force...