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Parties Involved:
Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc.
Appellee
International Securities Exchange, LLC
Appellant

Document Text:

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals 

for the Federal Circuit ______________________ 

INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES EXCHANGE, LLC,

Appellant

v.

CHICAGO BOARD OPTIONS EXCHANGE, INC.,

Appellee

______________________ 

2015-1743, 2015-1744

______________________ 

Appeals from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Nos. 

IPR2014-00097, IPR2014-00098.

______________________ 

Decided: March 25, 2016

______________________ 

 MICHAEL MARTIN MURRAY, Winston & Strawn LLP, 

New York, NY, argued for appellant. Also represented by 

MICHAEL JOHN SCHEER, Los Angeles, CA; GEOFFREY P.

EATON, Washington, DC.

STEVEN M. LIEBERMAN, Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & 

Manbeck, P.C, Washington, DC, argued for appellee. Also 

represented by JOSEPH A. HYNDS, BRIAN ANDREW 

TOLLEFSON. 

______________________ 

Case: 15-1743 Document: 39-2 Page: 1 Filed: 03/25/2016
2 INT’L SECURITIES EXCH. v. CHICAGO BOARD OPTIONS EXCH. 

Before O’MALLEY, MAYER, and REYNA, Circuit Judges.

O’MALLEY, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, International Securities Exchange, 

LLC (“ISE”) challenges the determination of the Patent 

Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) in inter partes 

review proceedings involving U.S. Patent Nos. 7,356,498 

(“the ’498 patent”) (IPR2014-00097) and 7,980,457 (“the 

’457 patent”) (IPR2014-00098). The Board found that ISE 

failed to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the 

challenged claims of the ’498 and ’457 patents are unpatentable as either anticipated, obvious, or both, under 

35 U.S.C. § 102(e) and 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). In light of our

decision in Chicago Bd. Options Exch., Inc. v. Int’l Secs. 

Exch., Case Nos. 2015-1728, -1729, and -1730, issued 

contemporaneously herewith, affirming the Board’s 

conclusion that both patents address unpatentable subject 

matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101, we find this companion 

case moot. We dismiss the appeal and vacate the Board’s 

decisions.

DISMISSED

Case: 15-1743 Document: 39-2 Page: 2 Filed: 03/25/2016