Opinions of court

Opinions of the Court
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Institution
At its core, the US Supreme Court is different in a fundamental way from other state or federal courts particularly on whether to hear a case or not (Dahl, 2017). The court has a procedure that determines how and why a particular case should be heard or not. For instance, a case between the Oil States Energy Services, LLC, the petitioner versus Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, the respondent was accepted by the Supreme Court to full hearing. It was heard on October 11, 2017, and the decision made on April 24, 2018? The Supreme Court has various grounds for accepting a case to proceed to full trial. Such cases that reach the trial level should contain an element related to the violation of the laws contained in the US Constitution. This was the ground upon the mentioned case was accepted by the Supreme Court to go to full trial.
Oil States Energy who was a petitioner in the case had received a patent to apply the technology in the protection of the equipment used for hydraulic fracturing. Then accusing Greene’s Energy of infringement, Oil States Energy sued the company in the Federal District Court. Though the ruling of the federal district court favored Oil States Energy, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board maintained that what Oil States Energy was claiming was not patentable. Being dissatisfied with this decision, the Oil States Energy moved an appeal to the Supreme Court. The Oil States Energy, however, raised a question of unconstitutionality.

The petitioner in its claim presented that constitutionally, such an action to revoke a patent could only be heard by a jury in an Article III court but not the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (The U.S Supreme Court, 2017). Therefore, the element of constitutionality that was raised by the petitioner is what led to the Supreme Court to consider the case for hearing.
References
Dahl, R. A. (2017). Decision-making in a democracy: The Supreme Court as a national policy-maker. In Constitutionalism and Democracy (pp. 137-154). Routledge.
The U.S Supreme Court (2017): OIL STATES ENERGY SERVICES, LLC v. GREENE’S ENERGY GROUP, LLC, ET AL. Opinions of the Court- 2017.