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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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Allegations of racial bias in a death penalty trial

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The court will hold the other case raising that question, Ham v. Breckon , pending the outcome in Jones. This week we have only one new relist: Thomas v.

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Divided Supreme Court Strikes Down Chevron in Landmark Decision

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By a vote of 6-3, the Court held that Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether a federal agency has acted within its statutory authority, and courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.

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A few initial thoughts on Loper and the end of Chevron Deference

Patently O

261 (2016) provided the patent office with Chevron deference for its determinations regarding AIA trials, including issues such as its approach to claim construction. When reason why it is so big is that Chevron deference is premised on ambiguity in the statute. The Loper decision : In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo , 603 U.S.

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Challenges to administrative action and retroactive relief for prisoners

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Both cases present the question whether statutes that authorize appellate courts to review final agency adjudications implicitly strip district courts of jurisdiction over constitutional challenges to those proceedings. The next two relists raise a related question: whether a habeas corpus statute, 28 U.S.C. Federal Trade Commission.

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Atextual Conditions for Patentability and Stare Decisis

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However, the district court concluded that the prior art was not enabling — i.e., a person of skilled in the art would not be able to construct (or even design) the claimed invention without undue experimentation. In the area of obviousness though, the doctrine was developed by courts and then implemented by statute in 1952.

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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?