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JULY 1, 2021

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. Hologic Inc. Hologic Inc.

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APRIL 15, 2021

24, 2020, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia , a case in which the petitioners and several amici are asking the Court to either (1) overrule Employment Division v. It remains in effect at the federal level, but the court held in City of Boerne v. retail stores, manufacturing facilities).

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APRIL 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

20-1394 (Supreme Court 2021). This is a core civil procedure case pending before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has now issued a Call for the Views of the Solicitor General (CVSG)–seeking the government’s input on whether to hear the case. by Dennis Crouch. PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC v. Patreon, Inc.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Share On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will consider whether federal trademark law applies to trademark infringement that takes place outside the United States. The facts Hetronic, based in Oklahoma, manufactures and sells radio remote controls that operate heavy-duty construction equipment. In Abitron Austria GmbH v. It owns U.S.

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