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Patent Puzzles after the Supreme Court’s 2024 Administrative Law Cases: Stare Decisis, Rulemaking, and Discretion

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Although these decisions may not have as significant an impact in patent law as in other areas, they do pose interesting puzzles with respect to stare decisis as well as agency rulemaking and discretion that will provide many litigation opportunities going forward. Notably, the 2016 patent law case of Cuozzo v.

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Challenges to administrative action and retroactive relief for prisoners

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The question is whether the United States is such a successful litigant that the court will grant review even in cases it doesn’t want the court to review. The next two relists raise a related question: whether a habeas corpus statute, 28 U.S.C. Federal Trade Commission.

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Justices to consider international reach of U.S. trademark law

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The facts Hetronic, based in Oklahoma, manufactures and sells radio remote controls that operate heavy-duty construction equipment. The court asks if there is a “clear, affirmative indication” from the face of the statute that Congress intended the law to apply extraterritorially. It owns U.S. Has Congress directly spoken here?