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Mantissa Corporation v. Ondot Systems, Inc., et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 17-2533 · judgment March 3, 2020

Certiorari denied · December 7, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. Has this Court’s Alice exception to patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 been improperly expanded to cover computer-implemented inventions that, while not necessarily improving the functioning of a computer, do “effect an improvement in [another] technology or technical field”?

  2. Should courts acts as fact finders in determining material factual issues underlying patent-eligibility under § 101?

  3. Should the abstract-idea exception to § 101 require considering pre-emption?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Anthony John Demarco
Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, P.C.

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Dec 07 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 17 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/4/2020.
  3. Sep 30 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 5, 2020)