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Rideshare Displays, Inc. v. Lyft, Inc., et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2023-2033, 2023-2034, 2023-2035, 2023-2036, 2023-2037, 2023-2038, 2023-2039 · judgment September 29, 2025


Certiorari denied · May 18, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Whether the Federal Circuit has wrongly applied this Court’s and its own precedent in disregarding key functional limitations of the claims that implement the improvement to the claimed invention over the prior art in conducting a patent eligibility analysis under 35 U.S.C. §101.

  2. Whether the Federal Circuit has wrongly usurped the factfinder role and disregarded the requirement to review the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s factual findings on written description for substantial evidence by sua sponte raising and ruling on a new argument at the appellate hearing that was not raised below and overrule the Board without the Patent Owner or Board ever having an opportunity to address it.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Devan Viswanathan Padmanabhan
PADMANABHAN & DAWSON, PLLC

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 18 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 28 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/14/2026.
  3. Apr 22 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Lyft, Inc. to respond filed.
  4. Apr 17 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Federal Respondent to respond filed.
  5. Mar 23 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 27, 2026)