United States Supreme Court
Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee, 15-446
In a case alleging the Patent and Trademark Office improperly instituted inter partes review, pursuant to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, 35 U.S.C. section 100 et seq., the Federal Circuit's judgment that section 314(d) made the Patent Office's decision to institute inter partes review nonappealable and that the Patent Office's regulation was a reasonable exercise of the agency's rulemaking authority, is affirmed where: 1) section 314(d) bars plaintiff's challenge to the Patent Office's decision to institute inter partes review; and 2) the Patent Office regulation requiring the Board to apply the broadest reasonable construction standard to interpret patent claims is a reasonable exercise of the rulemaking authority granted to the Patent Office by statute.
Appellate Information
- Published 2016/06/20
Judges
- BREYER
Court
- United States Supreme Court