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

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Stare decisis, Latin for “to stand by things decided,” is a legal principle that directs courts to adhere to previous judgments, i.e., precedent, when resolving a case with comparable facts. the Federal Circuit applied stare decisis to a prior validity ruling involving a different patent and a different accused infringer.

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

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Those who spoke extensively, however, seem ready to reject the government’s argument that the statute of limitations at issue here is a strict jurisdictional rule, as opposed to a “mere” claims-processing rule, which could be waived in an appropriate case. It has stare decisis effect.”

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A second look at a death-row prisoner’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim

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Andrus argues that the Texas court “disregard[ed] this Court’s determinations and legal precedents to strain for a result that it prefers,” and in the process violated “vertical stare decisis,” the principle that lower courts must follow the Supreme Court’s decisions. Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C.

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Justices uphold a narrow version of patent assignor estoppel

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Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday narrowed the doctrine of patent assignor estoppel, which prohibits an inventor from assigning a patent to someone and then later contending in litigation that the patent is invalid. By a vote of 5-4, the court rejected calls to completely abandon the doctrine. Formica Insulation Co. ,

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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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Another look at qualified immunity

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Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. 1983 claim seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence begins to run at the end of state-court litigation denying DNA testing, including any appeals (as the U.S. (relisted after the Jan. 25, March 4, March 18, March 25 and April 1 conferences). Goertz , 21-442.