Supreme Court Skips Review of Patent-Owner Standing Question

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid to alter the rules for when a patent owner may bring an infringement suit when it’s pledged certain rights to the invention as collateral for a loan and lost them due to a default.

The court denied a petition from Zebra Technologies Corp., which was sued by Intellectual Tech LLC for infringement in 2022. Zebra unsuccessfully challenged IT’s right to bring the suit because its lender, Main Street Capital, gained the right to license the asserted patent—US Patent No. 7,233,247—after IT’s parent company defaulted on a 2011 ...