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

Patently O

Latty Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law In a flurry of recent decisions, the Supreme Court has continued its skepticism of administrative agencies. Consider first stare decisis and the Court’s overruling of Chevron deference (i.e. no standing requirement).

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US Supreme Court strikes down Chevron Deference, requiring courts not defer to agency assessments of their mandates

JURIST

The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that courts must exercise independent judgment in assessing an agency’s statutory authority. The Supreme Court did not decide on the facts of Loper. The Loper court disagreed, finding that “ Chevron was a judicial invention that required judges to disregard their statutory duties.”

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Federal Circuit Gives Stare Decisis Effect to a Judgment of Claim Validity

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University of Illinois Foundation (1971), the Supreme Court held that a judgment of invalidity in a suit against one infringer accrues to the benefit of any other accused infringer unless the patent owner shows that he did not have a fair opportunity procedurally, substantively and evidentially to pursue his patent claim the first time.

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Doctrinal “dinosaur” or stare decisis? Justices wrestle with patent-law precedent.

SCOTUSBlog

Hochman fielded several questions about why the court should abandon a doctrine that the court has recognized for nearly a century. Morgan Ratner argued for the federal government, which filed its own friend-of-the-court brief but supported neither party. The post Doctrinal “dinosaur” or stare decisis?

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Clarence Thomas: “When Someone Uses Stare Decisis that Means They’re Out of Arguments”

JonathanTurley

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas made an interesting comment this weekend about the hold of precedent on the Court. Wade as “an infidelity,” Thomas dismissed the reliance on the principle of stare decisis , or the respect for precedent. I have long questioned the weight given stare decisis in constitutional cases.

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Word of the Month for August 2019: Stare Decisis

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Thing is, these days law and the decisions courts hand down are very much like that. People go to one court, don't get what they want so they go to another court asking for, basically, the same thing. Of course, this brings us to our word of the month: STARE DECISIS. Schempp , 374 U.S.

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India Supreme Court allows petition of 2002 communal riots victim

JURIST

The Supreme Court of India allowed a petition by Bilkis Bano on Monday against the premature release of convicts involved in the 2002 Gujarat communal riots. The court concluded that the writ petition filed under Article 32 of the Indian Constitution by Bano is maintainable.