Enova Technology Corp. v. Seagate Technology (US) Holdings, Inc., et al.

This Court recently granted certiorari in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, 639 F. App’x 639 (Fed. Cir. 2016), cert. granted, 2017 WL 2507340 (U.S. June 12, 2017) (“Oil States”) to consider the constitutionality of inter partes review (“IPR”) proceedings that analyze the validity of issued patents. The present case, in which the United States Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”) invalidated Petitioner’s patent, involves the same question presented in Oil States: that is, whether IPR proceedings, an adversarial process used by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) of the USPTO to analyze the validity of existing patents, violates the Constitution by extinguishing private property rights through a non-Article III forum without a jury. RULES 14.1(b) AND 29.6 STATEMENT All parties are identified in the caption of this petition. Enova Technology Corp. is a privately held corporation. It has no parent company, and no publicly held company owns 10% or more of its stock.