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

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Morgan Ratner argued for the federal government, which filed its own friend-of-the-court brief but supported neither party. The justices pressed Ratner on where the government’s version of the doctrine came from. Wolf principally argued that stare decisis justifies maintaining the doctrine.

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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. establishing and governing inter partes review.”

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Word of the Month for August 2019: Stare Decisis

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The 1st Amendment reads: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Intellectual Property and the Historic Kinship Between Patents and Copyrights

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In allowing the states to usurp citizens’ intellectual property rights, the justices of the Allen Court prioritized either a dogmatic form of stare decisis or the New Federalist ideology over the Constitution and its structure and history. In the end, Allen creates serious practical problems for copyright holders.

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A quiet bench on the Quiet Title Act: Justices hold muted debate on statute of limitations

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Wilkins and the government fought in the lower courts over whether the suit, filed many years after the general public use began, was timely. It has stare decisis effect.” Why would we try to give stare decisis to issues that weren’t identified by the court? I think I might be.

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Court to decide whether an inventor may challenge the validity of the patent on the inventor’s own invention

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In addition to all of the above, Hologic argues that the court should maintain the doctrine because of stare decisis. The federal government filed an amicus brief urging the court to take the middle ground. The federal government filed an amicus brief urging the court to take the middle ground. A possible middle ground.

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India Supreme Court allows petition of 2002 communal riots victim

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The court determined that the Government of the State of Gujarat did not have the jurisdiction to grant remission to the convicts as the convicts were convicted in Maharashtra. However, the convicts were prematurely released in 2022 based on a remission order by the state government of Gujarat.