June 06, 2025
An "apparent software malfunction" caused the U.S. Supreme Court's order list to be issued early Friday, orders in which the justices granted certiorari in four cases and refused to take up a long list of other ones, including cases centered on Pennsylvania's election system and the Obama Presidential Center.
June 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Friday to review a decision that telemedicine patents asserted against the U.S. government are invalid for claiming only abstract ideas, in the court's latest refusal to reconsider the standard for determining if inventions are eligible for patents.
May 16, 2025
The owner of a pair of invalidated patents covering medical machinery pushed the U.S. Supreme Court to take up its fight over the patents' eligibility since the government said it planned to argue the patents shouldn't have been invalidated as abstract if the company's petition was granted.
May 01, 2025
The Justice Department is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition over the eligibility of telemedicine patents it's accused of infringing, but it said that if the petition is granted, it plans to argue the patents shouldn't have been invalidated as abstract.
January 30, 2025
The owner of a pair of invalidated patents covering medical machinery has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look at what it called "confusion" stemming from the high court's Alice decision and also at the Federal Circuit's practice of issuing one-line orders.