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Steve Campbell v. Tube-Mac Industries, Inc., et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2022-2170 · judgment March 15, 2024
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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As Congress has signed the United States of America to the rules and stipulations of the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty and the Federal Circuit through Voda v. Cordis, 476 F.3d 887 (2007), ruled that Federal Courts do not have jurisdiction over foreign patents, was the ruling by the District Court that the Patentee and Assignee take the necessary steps to add new co-inventors to foreign patents where said co-inventors had not assigned its claimed rights to the Assignee of record in violation of these rules, the Federal Circuit ruling, and the international Patent Cooperation Treaty?
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Regarding foreign and domestic patents, where a Patentee has assigned all patent rights to an Assignee, is it moot for a district court to order that Patentee to add co-inventors?
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Where claimed co-inventors from another country have directed themselves through a company from another country with a fictitious “obligation to assign” their claimed inventive rights to a subsidiary US company, registered as domestic, is this not a fraud on the court?
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Are frauds on the court such as changing the core of the argument after discovery, perjury, subornation of perjury, arid directly lying to the court by attorneys when questioned by the court, reasons to dismiss a case under the doctrine of unclean hands?
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Though the law in the United States stipulates that the clock on Laches is to start once a patent has
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Steven Campbell
For respondent
Lynn Jeffery Alstadt
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Nov 04 2024Petition DENIED.
- Oct 09 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/1/2024.
- Sep 17 2024Waiver of right of respondent Tube-Mac Indus., Inc., et al. to respond filed.
- Aug 28 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 30, 2024)