Hal Wegner has updated his top-ten list of pending cases:
- Impression Products v. Lexmark (cert petition pending) (post-sale and international exhaustion)
- Sequenom v. Ariosa Diagnostics (cert petition pending) (patent eligibility)
- Samsung v. Apple (cert granted) (design patent damages)
- Cuozzo Speed v. Lee (awaiting Supreme Court decision) (claim construction at the PTAB)
- Halo Electronics v. Pulse and Stryker v. Zimmer (awaiting Supreme Court decision) (requirements to prove willful infringement)
- SCA Hygiene v. First Quality Baby Prods (cert granted) (when does laches apply in patent cases)
- Life v. Promega (cert petition pending) (active inducement for export of component)
- Cooper v. Lee (cert petition pending) (direct challenge to PTAB administrative review)
- MCM Portfolio v. Hewlett-Packard (cert petition pending) (direct challenge to PTAB administrative review)
- Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva Pharm. (Federal Circuit case) (whether Metallizing Engineering was overruled by statute – i.e., what is the prior art impact of secret pre-filing commercialization by patentee).
Read Wegner’s Writings published by the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association. A full list of pending Supreme Court patent cases is available on Patently-O.