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

Patently O

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

Patently O

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

SCOTUSBlog

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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Divided Supreme Court Strikes Down Chevron in Landmark Decision

Constitutional Law Reporter

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

When reason why it is so big is that Chevron deference is premised on ambiguity in the statute. She also argued that the majority’s decision subverted stare decisis principles, as Chevron was a “cornerstone of administrative law” that had engendered significant reliance interests. ” 5 U.S.C. §

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In family’s lawsuit against public nursing home, court revisits private rights of action and the spending clause

SCOTUSBlog

1983 — which allows private suits for state and local deprivations of rights secured by federal law—to enforce federal statutes enacted under Congress’ spending clause power. Laws” means federal statutes, including spending clause enactments that “unambiguously” create individual rights. Background.

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

SCOTUSBlog

Minerva contends that it has a statutory right to challenge invalidity; the statute does not have any textual exceptions for patent assignors. In addition to all of the above, Hologic argues that the court should maintain the doctrine because of stare decisis. A possible middle ground. But a middle ground exists.