Case: Patents/Procedure (Fed. Cir.)

December 10, 2025, 6:26 PM UTC

The Federal Circuit denied HighLevel Inc.'s petition for a writ of mandamus directing the U.S. PTO to vacate and reconsider decisions declining to institute inter partes review of Etison LLC’s patents relating to a website creation system. The court said that HighLevel failed to present the kind of property rights or retroactivity concerns that might give rise to a cognizable due process clause claim, or to present a non-constitutional claim that is mandamus-worthy.

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