Kappos v. Hyatt

Kappos v. Hyatt
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 9, 2012 Decided April 18, 2012
Full case name	David Kappos, Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Gilbert P. Hyatt
Docket nos.	10-1219
Citations	566 U.S. ___ (more)
Prior history	Decision against petitioner, unreported (BPAI 2001); summary judgement for defendant sub nom. Hyatt v. Dudas, 2006 WL 4606037 (D.D.C. 2005); affirmed sub nom. Hyatt v. Doll, 576 F.3d 1246 (Fed. Cir. 2009); vacated and remanded on en banc rehearing, 625 F.3d 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2010); certiorari granted, 131 S.Ct. 3064 (2011)
Argument	Oral argument
Holding
There are no limitations on a plaintiff's ability to introduce new evidence in a §145 proceeding other than those in the Federal Rules of Evidence and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Court membership
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Thomas, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan
Concurrence	Sotomayor, joined by Breyer
Laws applied
35 U.S.C. § 145

Kappos v. Hyatt, 566 U.S. ___ (2012), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that there are no limitations on a plaintiff's ability to introduce new evidence in a §145 proceeding other than those in the Federal Rules of Evidence and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.^[1]

References

1. Kappos v. Hyatt, No. 10-1219 (2012), Slip. Op. at 14

External links

• Text of the decision from the United States Supreme Court PDF
• Coverage of the case on SCOTUSblog
• Coverage of the case on Oyez