{"id":3790,"date":"2016-07-29T08:35:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T12:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cpip.gmu.edu\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:36:32","slug":"cpip-scholars-file-amicus-brief-in-trading-technologies-v-cqg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ualawip\/2016\/07\/29\/cpip-scholars-file-amicus-brief-in-trading-technologies-v-cqg\/","title":{"rendered":"[Archived Post] CPIP Scholars File Amicus Brief in Trading Technologies v. CQG"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Bhamati Viswanathan<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, CPIP Senior Scholar Adam Mossoff penned an amicus<\/em> brief<\/a> in Trading Technologies v. CQG<\/em>, currently on appeal to the Federal Circuit. The brief was joined by nine other IP scholars, including CPIP Senior Scholars Mark Schultz and Kristen Osenga.<\/p>\n

The amici<\/em> argue that Trading Technologies\u2019 graphical user interface (GUI) constitutes patentable subject matter under Section 101<\/a> of the Patent Act. Noting the Supreme Court\u2019s holding in Bilski v. Kappos<\/em><\/a> that \u201cSection 101 is a dynamic provision designed to encompass new and unforeseen inventions,\u201d the amici<\/em> urge the Federal Circuit not to interpret Section 101 so narrowly as to \u201cimpede the process of future innovation\u201d by \u201ccreating unnecessary and innovation-killing \u2018uncertainty as to the patentability of software.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The recognition that specific computer-implemented technologies are not \u201cabstract\u201d is wholly consistent with the Mayo-Alice<\/em> test set forth by the Supreme Court in its recent Section 101 decisions, Mayo v. Prometheus Labs<\/em><\/a> and Alice v. CLS Bank<\/em><\/a>. Under the Mayo-Alice<\/em> framework, Trading Technologies\u2019 GUI is not merely an \u201cabstract idea\u201d incorporating conventional and automatic processes, but rather it exemplifies the technical innovation and \u201cprogress of . . . useful Arts\u201d that the patent system is intended to promote.<\/p>\n

The Summary of Argument section of the brief is copied below:<\/p>\n

SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The trial court\u2019s decision represents a proper application of 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 101. See Trading Technologies Int\u2019l, Inc. v. CQG, Inc.<\/em>, No. 05-4811, 2015 WL 774655 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 24, 2015). Because the parties address the relevant innovation covered by Trading Technologies’ patents, as well as the application of the Supreme Court\u2019s recent \u00a7 101 jurisprudence, amici <\/em>offer an additional insight that supports the trial court\u2019s decision: the invention of computer-mediated processes is exactly the kind of innovation that the patent system is designed to promote.<\/p>\n

As the Supreme Court recognized in Bilski v. Kappos<\/em>, 561 U.S. 593 (2010), \u201cSection 101 is a dynamic provision designed to encompass new and unforeseen inventions.\u201d Id.<\/em> at 605 (internal quotations omitted). Thus, this Court should decline the invitation by Appellant to construe \u00a7 101 in a crabbed and antiquarian fashion that would limit patent eligibility only to \u201cprocesses similar to those in the Industrial Age\u2014for example, inventions grounded in a physical or tangible form.\u201d Id.<\/em> To do so would contravene the Bilski <\/em>Court\u2019s warning against limiting \u00a7 101 to only non-digital inventions, creating thereby unnecessary and innovation-killing \u201cuncertainty as to the patentability of software,\u201d such as Appellee\u2019s graphical-user-interface invention.Id.<\/em><\/p>\n

To read the full amicus<\/em> brief, please click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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