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This is a list of notable patent law cases in the United States in chronological order. The cases have been decided notably by the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) or the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI). While the Federal Circuit (CAFC) sits below the Supreme Court ...
Patent applicants who are unhappy with the final decision of the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board have two options to appeal: they can appeal to the Federal Circuit (which conducts a limited review of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision) or sue the USPTO Director in the Eastern District of Virginia (which can consider new evidence ...
List of decisions and opinions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office; List of decisions of the EPO Boards of Appeal relating to Article 52(2) and (3) EPC; List of UK judgments relating to excluded subject matter; List of United States patent law cases; List of trademark case law; List of copyright case law
The Howard T. Markey National Courts Building in Washington, D.C., in which the Federal Circuit is located. The Federal Circuit is unique among the courts of appeals in that its jurisdiction is based wholly upon subject matter, not geographic location. The Federal Circuit is an appellate court with jurisdiction generally given in 28 U.S.C. § 1295.
The federal law giving federal courts exclusive jurisdiction over patent cases, 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a), does not deprive state courts of the authority to hear a state law claim alleging legal malpractice in an underlying patent case. Henderson v. United States: 11-9307: 2013-02-20
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is an administrative law body of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which decides issues of patentability. It was formed on September 16, 2012, as one part of the America Invents Act .
Stanford University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., 563 U.S. 776 (2011), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that title in a patented invention vests first in the inventor, even if the inventor is a researcher at a federally funded lab subject to the 1980 Bayh–Dole Act. [1]
The Federal Circuit therefore proceeded to the second step of the Alice methodology, which is to determine whether the patent adds anything inventive to implement the abstract idea. The court held the claimed steps "routine and conventional," despite IV's argument that because the prior art did not disclose "determining . . . whether each ...