This list contains an alphabetical listing of historically significant or leading case law in the area of patent law. For a list of patent law cases in just the United States, see United States patent law cases.

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Aerotel v Telco and Macrossan's Application ''Aerotel v Telco and Macrossan's Application'' is a judgment by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The judgment was passed down on 27 October 2006 and relates to two different appeals from decisions of the High Court. The first case invo ...

'' (UK, 2006) * '' Anderson’s-Black Rock, Inc. v. Pavement Salvage Co.'' (US, 1969) * ''

Apple Inc. litigation The multinational technology corporation Apple Inc. has been a participant in various legal proceedings and claims since it began operation and, like its competitors and peers, engages in litigation in its normal course of business for a variety ...

'' (multiple, multinational cases) * '' Apple v. HTC'' (US, 2010) * '' Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (multiple, multinational cases, ongoing) * ''

Ariad v. Lilly ''Ariad Pharmaceuticals et al. v. Eli Lilly and Company'', 598 F.3d 1336 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (en banc), is a United States court case regarding accusations of infringement by Eli Lilly on held by ARIAD Pharmaceuticals. The Federal Circuit ruled '' ...

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Arizona Cartridge Remanufacturers Association Inc. v. Lexmark International Inc. ''Arizona Cartridge Remanufacturers Association Inc. v. Lexmark International Inc.'', 421 F.3d 981 ( 9th Cir. 2005) was a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which ruled that an End User License Agreement on a phys ...

'' (US, 2005) * '' Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics'' (US, 2013) * ''

Atomic Energy Generation Device Case The ''Atomic Energy Generation Device ''Case (原子力エネルギー発生装置事件) is a 1969 decision of the Supreme Court of Japan concerning the patentability of a method of transformation of atomic nuclei. All members of the patent fami ...

'' (JP, 1969) - relates to the concept of "incomplete invention" * '' Auction Method/Hitachi'' ( EPO, 2004)

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Bilski v. Kappos ''Bilski v. Kappos'', 561 U.S. 593 (2010), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States holding that the machine-or-transformation test is not the sole test for determining the patent eligibility of a process, but rather "a useful ...

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Bowman v. Monsanto ''Bowman v. Monsanto Co.'', 569 U.S. 278 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court patent decision in which the Court unanimously affirmed the decision of the Federal Circuit that the patent exhaustion doctrine does not permit a farmer to plant a ...

'' (US, 2012) * '' Bauer & Cie. v. O'Donnell'' (US, 1913)

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* '' Catnic Components Ltd. v. Hill & Smith Ltd.'' (UK, 1982) * '' City of Elizabeth v. American Nicholson Pavement Co.'' (US, 1878) * ''

Continental Paper Bag Co. v. Eastern Paper Bag Co. ''Continental Paper Bag Co. v. Eastern Paper Bag Co.'', 210 U.S. 405 (1908), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States established the principle that patent holders have no obligation to use their patent. Facts Eastern Paper ...

'' (US, 1908) * '' Creative Technology v. Apple'' (US and international, 2006)

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Diamond v. Chakrabarty ''Diamond v. Chakrabarty'', 447 U.S. 303 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with whether living organisms can be patented. Writing for a five-justice majority, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger held that human-made bacteria could ...

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Diamond v. Diehr ''Diamond v. Diehr'', 450 U.S. 175 (1981), was a United States Supreme Court decision which held that controlling the execution of a physical process, by running a computer program did not preclude patentability of the invention as a whole. The hi ...

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EBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C. ''eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C.'', 547 U.S. 388 (2006), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously determined that an injunction should not be automatically issued based on a finding of patent infringement, but also ...

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Egbert v. Lippmann ''Egbert v. Lippmann'', 104 U.S. 333 (1881), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that public use of an invention bars the patenting of it. The Court's ruling was colored by its view that the inventor had forfeited his r ...

'' (US, 1881) * ''Egyptian Goddess v. Swisa'' (US, 2008) * '' Ex Parte Bowman'' (US, 2001) * '' Ex Parte Lundgren'' (US, 2004) * '' Ex Parte Quayle'' (US, 1935)

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* '' Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co.'' (US, 2002) * ''

Free World Trust v. Électro Santé Inc. Free may refer to: Concept * Freedom, having the ability to do something, without having to obey anyone/anything * Freethought, a position that beliefs should be formed only on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism * Emancipate, to procure ...

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Gottschalk v. Benson ''Gottschalk v. Benson'', 409 U.S. 63 (1972), was a Supreme Court of the United States, United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a process claim directed to a numerical algorithm, as such, was not patentable because "the pate ...

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Graham v. John Deere Co. ''Graham v. John Deere Co.'', 383 U.S. 1 (1966), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court clarified the nonobviousness requirement in United States patent law, set forth in 35 U.S.C. § 103.. Facts and procedural history The case was ...

'' (US, 1966) * '' Graver Tank & Manufacturing Co. v. Linde Air Products Co.'' (US, 1950)

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Harvard College v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents) ''Harvard College v Canada (Commissioner of Patents)'' is a leading Supreme Court of Canada case concerning the patentability of higher organism, life forms within the context of the Patent Act (Canada), Patent Act. At issue was the patentability o ...

'': patent of higher lifeforms (CA, 2002) * '' Honeywell v. Sperry Rand'' (US, 1973) * '' Hotchkiss v. Greenwood'' (US, 1850) * '' Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd v ZTE Corp. and ZTE Deutschland GmbH'' (European Court of Justice, C-170/13, 2015), judgement on standard-essential patents

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Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc. ''Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc.'', 547 U.S. 28 (2006), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the application of U.S. antitrust law to " tying" arrangements of patented products. The Court rul ...

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Improver v Remington ''Improver Corporation v Remington Consumer Product Limited 990F.S.R. 181'' is a leading United Kingdom case on patent infringement, particularly in relation to how to establish what specifically a patent covers. The Catnic Decision The earlie ...

'' (UK, 1990) * '' In re Bilski'' (US, 2008) * ''In re Seagate Technology'' (US, 2007)

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* '' Kirin-Amgen v Hoechst Marion Roussel'' (UK, 2004) * '' Kodak v. Apple'' (US, 2010, ongoing) * '' KSR v. Teleflex'' (US, 2007)

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*'' Lear, Inc. v. Adkins'' (US, 1969)

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* '' Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc.'' (US, 1996) * ''

Mayo v. Prometheus ''Mayo v. Prometheus'', 566 U.S. 66 (2012), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that unanimously held that claims directed to a method of giving a drug to a patient, measuring metabolites of that drug, and with a known thr ...

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MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. ''MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc.'', 549 U.S. 118 (2007), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States involving United States patent law, patent law.. It arose from a lawsuit filed by MedImmune which challenged one of the Cabilly ...

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Menashe v. William Hill ''Menashe Business Mercantile Ltd. & Anor v William Hill Organization Ltd.'' 002EWCA Civ 1702 was a patent case regarding Internet usage. The case addressed a European patent covering the United Kingdom for an invention referred to as "Interact ...

'' (UK, 2002) * '' Merck v. Integra'' (US, 2005) * ''

Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser ''Monsanto Canada Inc v Schmeiser'' 0041 S.C.R. 902, 2004 SCC 34 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada case on patent rights for biotechnology, between a Canadian canola farmer, Percy Schmeiser, and the agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto. ...

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Motorola Mobility v. Apple Inc. ''Motorola Mobility v. Apple Inc.'' was one of a series of lawsuits between technology companies Motorola Mobility and Apple Inc. In the year before Apple and Samsung began suing each other on most continents, and while Apple and High Tech Co ...

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* '' Nokia v. Apple'' (US & international, 2009)

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Orange-Book-Standard ''Orange-Book-Standard'' (Az. KZR 39/06) is a decision issued on May 6, 2009 by the Federal Court of Justice of Germany (german: Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) on the interaction between patent law and technical standards, and more generally between int ...

'' (DE, 2009), on the interaction between patent law and standards

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Parker v. Flook ''Parker v. Flook'', 437 U.S. 584 (1978), was a 1978 United States Supreme Court decision that ruled that an invention that departs from the prior art only in its use of a mathematical algorithm is patent eligible only if there is some other "inven ...

'' (US, 1978) * '' Pension Benefit Systems Partnership'' (EPO, 2000) * ''

Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. ''Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc.'', 525 U.S. 55 (1998), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that determined what constituted being "on sale" for the purposes of barring the grant of a patent for an invention. Background of t ...

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* '' Quanta v. LG Electronics'' (US, 2008)

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State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group ''State Street Bank and Trust Company v. Signature Financial Group, Inc.'', 149 F.3d 1368 (Fed. Cir. 1998), also referred to as ''State Street'' or ''State Street Bank'', was a 1998 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal ...

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* '' Typhoon Touch v. Dell'' (US, 2008)

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* '' United States v. Adams'' (US, 1966)

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* '' Warner-Jenkinson Company, Inc. v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co.'' (US, 1997)

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External links

"Internet Sources for Intellectual Property Case Law"
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IP Precedents Database
at the Research Center for the Legal System of Intellectual Property, Waseda University

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