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Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Rovi Guides, Inc., et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2019-1215, 2019-1216, 2019-1218, 2019-1293, 2019-1294, 2019-1295 · judgment April 22, 2020
Before the decision, about 1.7× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel who has won certiorari before, a Federal Circuit decision below, and a business petitioner, and down for a business respondent.
Questions presented
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Whether, for purposes of the Appointments Clause, U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 2, administrative patent judges of the United States Patent and Trademark Office are principal officers who must be appointed by the President with the Senate’s advice and consent, or “inferior Officers” whose appointment Congress has permissibly vested in a department head.
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Whether the court of appeals erred by adjudicating the patent owner’s Appointments Clause challenge, even though it did not present that challenge to the agency.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Donald B. Verrilli Jr.
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
For respondent
Michael E. Joffre
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C.
Proceedings
- Dec 03 2020Petition Dismissed - Rule 46.
- Nov 17 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/4/2020.
- Nov 13 2020Motion of petitioner to dismiss the petition for a writ of certiorari pursuant Rule 46.2 filed.
- Oct 20 2020Reply of petitioner Comcast Cable Communications, LLC filed.
- Sep 21 2020Memorandum of respondent Rovi Guides, Inc. filed.
- Aug 28 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 2, 2020)