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Cisco Systems, Inc. v. SRI International, Inc.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2017-2223 · judgment July 12, 2019
Before the decision, about 1.8× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition), and a Federal Circuit decision below, and down for a business respondent.
Question presented
35 U.S.C. § 101 provides that a patent may be obtained for “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.” However, this Court has held that § 101 “‘contains an important implicit exception: Laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas are not patentable.’” Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 573 U.S. 208, 216 (2014). Respondent SRI owns two patents that are both directed to a “computer-automated method” of collecting and analyzing data in a computer network to detect suspicious activity. The question presented is: Whether patent claims that recite only the abstract idea of collecting and analyzing data are patentineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Alice. (i)
Counsel of record
For petitioner
William F. Lee
WilmerHale, LLP
For respondent
Frank Everett Scherkenbach
Fish and Richardson, P.C.
Proceedings
- Feb 24 2020Petition DENIED.
- Jan 29 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2020.
- Jan 29 2020Reply of petitioner Cisco Systems, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
- Jan 15 2020Brief of respondent SRI International, Inc. in opposition filed.
- Dec 09 2019Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 15, 2020.
- Dec 05 2019Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 16, 2019 to January 15, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
- Nov 08 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 16, 2019)
- Sep 18 2019Application (19A312) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until November 8, 2019.
- Sep 17 2019Application (19A312) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 10, 2019 to November 8, 2019, submitted to The Chief Justice.