Busy Schedule for the Supremes – Court Takes on Six High Profile Patent Cases This Term
Feb 27th, 2014 by Michael Dilworth | News | Recent News & Articles |
The Supreme Court will hear six patent cases during the current 2013-14 term that began on October 7th of last year. This is an extraordinary number of patent cases, considering that the Court is scheduled to hear just 70 cases during this term, and that these 70 cases were selected from over 10,000 petitions for hearings (called writs of certiorari). In contrast, just three patent cases were heard during each of the 2010-11 and 2011-12 terms, and only two patent cases during the 2012-13 term.