FedCircuitBlog

Here is an update on activity at the Supreme Court in cases decided by the Federal Circuit. With respect to granted cases, there is no new activity to report. While no new petitions were filed, a waiver of the right to respond was filed in a patent case raising questions related to Judge Newman’s removal from her duties, Rule 12(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the judicial exception to patentability for abstract ideas. The Court also received one new reply brief in support of a petition filed in another patent case raising a question related to standing. In addition, the Court denied petitions in two pro se cases. Here are the details.

Here is an update on recent activity at the Supreme Court in cases decided by the Federal Circuit. With respect to granted cases, there is no new activity to report. With respect to petitions, two new petitions were filed raising questions related to injunctive relief related to generic drugs and appellate procedure, new waivers of the right to respond were filed in a patent case and a pro se case, and one new reply in support of a petition was filed in a patent case raising questions regarding inter partes review. Here are the details.

Here is an update on recent activity at the Supreme Court in cases decided by the Federal Circuit. With respect to granted cases, there is no new activity to report. With respect to petitions, one new petition was filed in a pro se case, and two new replies were filed in patent cases raising questions related to notice-and-comment rulemaking and patent eligibility. Here are the details.

This morning, the Federal Circuit released three nonprecedential opinions. One addresses an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Another addresses an appeal from a district court judgment and accompanying order in a patent case mandating the correction of inventorship of several patents. The third addresses an appeal from a final written decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which held that certain claims had not been shown to be unpatentable as obvious in view of asserted prior art. Late yesterday, the Federal Circuit also released one dismissal. Here are the introductions to the opinions and link to the dismissal.