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Cite as:  590 U. S. ____ (2020) 

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GORSUCH, J., dissenting 

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

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No. 18–916 
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THRYV, INC., FKA DEX MEDIA, INC., PETITIONER v. 
CLICK-TO-CALL TECHNOLOGIES, LP, ET AL. 

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF 
APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT 

[April 20, 2020] 

JUSTICE GORSUCH, with whom JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR joins

as to Parts I, II, III, and IV, dissenting. 

Today the Court takes a flawed premise—that the Con-
stitution  permits  a  politically  guided  agency  to  revoke  an
inventor’s property right in an issued patent—and bends it 
further,  allowing  the  agency’s  decision  to  stand  immune
from  judicial  review.  Worse,  the  Court  closes  the  court-
house not in a case where the patent owner is merely un-
happy  with  the  merits  of  the  agency’s  decision  but  where 
the  owner  claims  the  agency’s  proceedings  were  unlawful 
from the start.  Most remarkably, the Court denies judicial 
review even though the government now concedes that the
patent owner is right and this entire exercise in property-
taking-by-bureaucracy was forbidden by law. 

It  might  be  one  thing  if  Congress  clearly  ordained  this 
strange  result.  But  it  did  not.  The  relevant  statute,  the 
presumption of judicial review, and our precedent all point 
toward  allowing,  not  forbidding,  inventors  their  day  in 
court.  Yet, the Court brushes past these warning signs and, 
in the process, carries us another step down the road of ced-
ing core judicial powers to agency officials and leaving the 
disposition  of  private  rights  and  liberties  to  bureaucratic 
mercy.