CUOZZO SPEED TECHNOLOGIES, LLC v. LEE

No. 15-446.

136 S.Ct. 2131 (2016)

195 L. Ed. 2d 423

CUOZZO SPEED TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Petitioner v. Michelle K. LEE, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 20, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garrard R. Beeney , New York, NY, for petitioner.

Curtis E. Gannon , Washington, DC, for respondent.

Garrard R. Beeney , Stephen J. Elliott , James T. Williams , Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY, Jeffrey B. Wall , Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Sarah Harris , General Counsel, Thomas W. Krause , Acting Solicitor, Scott C. Weidenfeller , Acting Deputy Solicitor, Robert J. McManus , Associate Solicitor, United States Patent and, Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. , Solicitor General, Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistance, Attorney General, Malcolm L. Stewart , Deputy Solicitor General, Beth S. Brinkmann , Deputy Assistant Attorney, General, Curtis E. Gannon , Assistant to the Solicitor General, Mark R. Freeman , Melissa N. Patterson , Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent.


The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, 35 U.S.C. § 100 et seq., creates a process called "inter partes review." That review process allows a third party to ask the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to reexamine the claims in an already-issued patent and to cancel any claim that the agency...

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