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Yanbin Yu, et al. v. Apple Inc., et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2020-1760, 2020-1803 · judgment June 11, 2021
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether, when applying the test for patent eligibility set forth in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U.S. 66 (2012), a patent claim should be considered “as a whole” in accordance with Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175 (1981), or instead, whether all conventional elements of the claim must be disregarded prior to determining its “point of novelty” as set forth in this Court’s older precedent in Parker v. Flook, 437 U.S. 584 (1978).
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Counsel of record
For petitioner
Daniel Johnson Jr.
Dan Johnson Law Group, LLP
For respondent
Douglas Harry Hallward-Driemeier
Ropes & Gray, LLP
Case
Subject area
Economic Activity (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, February 22, 2022 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Feb 22 2022Petition DENIED.
- Jan 12 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/18/2022.
- Dec 14 2021Waiver of right of respondent Apple Inc. to respond filed.
- Dec 14 2021Waiver of right of respondents Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Electronics America, Inc. to respond filed.
- Dec 09 2021Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Yanbin Yu, et al.
- Nov 29 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 3, 2022)