Vroom v. Sidekick Technology
Panel: Stoll, Wallach, Cunningham
In Vroom, Inc. v. Sidekick Technology, LLC, the Federal Circuit remanded consolidated appeals involving patent-ineligibility decisions to the district court for consideration of vacatur in light of the parties' settlement. After the court stayed the appeals to allow the parties to effectuate settlement, the district court issued an indicative ruling that it would vacate its prior patent-ineligibility decisions if the Federal Circuit remanded, prompting the parties' joint motion to remand.
The court granted the remand solely for the district court to consider the parties' vacatur request under United States Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall Partnership, explicitly declining to take any position on whether vacatur was proper or necessary. The order illustrates the Federal Circuit's application of the indicative ruling procedure under Rule 12.1, where an appeal is pending but the district court lacks jurisdiction to grant requested relief absent remand, and underscores that the appellate court will not preview the merits of a Bonner Mall analysis when remanding for that purpose.