Picture Patents LLC v. Aeropostale, Inc.

Petition for certiorari denied on November 26, 2012

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
12-339	Fed. Cir.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	OT 2012

Issue: Whether FilmTec Corp. v. Allied-Signal, Inc.'s “automatic assignment” rule should be overruled given the doubts about its validity expressed by three Justices of the United States Supreme Court in Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University v. Roche Molecular Sys., Inc., and in light of the reservation of that issue by the Court’s opinion therein.

Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
Sep 17 2012	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 19, 2012)
Oct 18 2012	Brief of respondents Aeropostale, Inc., et al. in opposition filed.
Oct 24 2012	Reply of petitioners Picture Patents LLC, et al. filed.
Oct 29 2012	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 20, 2012.
Nov 26 2012	Petition DENIED. Justice Breyer and Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.

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