Decided

No. 18-801

Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. NantKwest, Inc.

from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

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Docket Entries

Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. Sotomayor, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.

Argued. For petitioner: Malcolm L. Stewart, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. For respondent: Mr. Morgan Chu, Los Angeles, Cal.

Complete record located on PACER (U.S.C.A. Federal Circuit and U.S.D.C. Eastern Dist, VA).

Record requested from the U.S.C.A. Federal Circuit.

CIRCULATED

Brief amicus curiae of IEEE-USA filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Association of the Bar of the City of New York filed.

Brief amicus curiae of American Intellectual Property Law Association filed.

Brief amicus curiae of The International Trademark Association filed.

Brief amici curiae of The Association of Amicus Counsel, et al. filed.

Brief amicus curiae of The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Intellectual Property Owners Association filed.

Brief amicus curiae of The American Bar Association filed.

Brief of respondent NantKwest, Inc. filed.

SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, October 7, 2019.

Brief amicus curiae of New York Intellectual Property Law Association filed.

Brief amicus curiae of Federal Circuit Bar Association in support of neither party filed.

Brief amicus curiae of R Street Institute filed.

Brief of petitioner Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office, filed.

Joint appendix filed.

Letter of substitution of petitioner received.

Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits is granted. The time to file joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including May 17, 2019. The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including July 15, 2019.

Motion for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed.

Petition GRANTED.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/1/2019.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/22/2019.

Reply of petitioner Andrei Iancu filed.

Brief of respondent NantKwest, Inc. in opposition filed.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 22, 2019)

Application (18A369) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until December 21, 2018.

Application (18A369) to extend further the time from November 23, 2018 to December 21, 2018, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Application (18A369) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until November 23, 2018.

Application (18A369) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 25, 2018 to November 23, 2018, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Parties

Laura Peter, Deputy Director, Patent and Trademark Office, Petitioner, represented by Noel J. Francisco

NantKwest, Inc., Respondent, represented by Morgan Chu

Amici Curiae

American Bar Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Robert M. Carlson

American Intellectual Property Law Assoc., Amicus Curiae, represented by Jeffrey I. D. Lewis

Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Amicus Curiae, represented by Philip Laurence Hirschhorn

Federal Circuit Bar Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by William Paul Atkins

IEEE-USA, Amicus Curiae, represented by Richard Alan Neifeld

Intellectual Property Owners Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Gregory Andrew Castanias

New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Charles Robert Macedo

R Street Institute, Amicus Curiae, represented by Charles Duan

The American Bar Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Theodore H. Davis Jr.

The Association of Amicus Counsel, InfoTech Law Offices, Isshiki & Co., and Law Offices of Hiraide & Takahashi, Amicus Curiae, represented by Charles E. Miller

The Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, Amicus Curiae, represented by Margaret M. Duncan

The International Trademark Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Lawrence K. Nodine

 
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