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COMMIL USA, LLC v. CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.

Term: 2014
Important Dates
Argued: March 31, 2015
Decided: May 26, 2015
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
6-2
Majority
Samuel Alito • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Elena Kagan • Anthony Kennedy • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
John Roberts • Antonin Scalia

COMMIL USA, LLC v. CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 2015. The case was argued before the court on March 31, 2015.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Texas Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 575 U.S. 632
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
Who wrote the majority opinion: Anthony Kennedy

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

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External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024

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