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From the article the next level of appeals is the (U.S.) Supreme Court. It would just depend on whether that court decided to take up the case.
by plorg 11y ago
From the article the next level of appeals is the (U.S.) Supreme Court. It would just depend on whether that court decided to take up the case.
- daveguy 11y agoAnd it is doubtful the Supreme Court will take a case like this. There is no question about constitutional validity of the laws or rights involved, just interpretations of what is covered / infringed on various patents (slide to unlock for apple - cancelled others uninfinged, video compression for samsung - enforced).
- dragonwriter 11y agoThe Supreme Court takes cases for lots of reasons besides the presence of questions of Constitutional validity of laws.
- daveguy 11y agoWell, importance of the case (eg bush v gore), rights (civil, constitutional), conflict of law (disregard of previous rulings, federal vs state conflict) are the highest priority reasons. This case doesn't come anywhere near meeting any of the usual criteria -- conflict of law (with constitution or other laws) being most common. Do you think it will be heard by SCOTUS? If so, why?
- spott 11y agoIf the supreme court decides they want to revisit the idea of software patents, and patents on mathematical concepts.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoEven if the Supreme Court wants to revisit that, this might not be the best case for doing so. They most likely have other options.
- dragonwriter 11y agoImportance of the issue (not necessarily the case) is a consideration, and the most likely one I think for a patent case. I'm not familiar with the specific legal arguments made by either side in this particular case that might be the basis for either side appealing, though, so I don't actually have a prediction, I was just pointing out that the absence of an issue of Constitutionality of the underlying law isn't sufficient to dismiss the possibility of SCOTUS taking the case.
- ajross 11y agoThe only other big one is to clean up conflicting case law between circuits, though. And that's not relevant here because patent suits are heard only by the federal circuit. They won't take this one.