{"id":4654,"date":"2011-12-14T22:47:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2011-12-14T22:47:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:47:21","slug":"dealertrack-seven-months-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4654","title":{"rendered":"Dealertrack &#8212; Seven months and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pending appeal of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dealertrack v. Huber<\/span> case reflects just how long an appeal can take when an area of the law is unsettled.\u00a0 Back in October of 2009, the court granted the parties&#8217; joint motion to stay proceedings until the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bilski<\/span> case was decided by the Supreme Court. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/images\/stories\/opinions-orders\/2009-1566.10-27-09.1.PDF\">Link<\/a>]\u00a0 As you may recall, that decision was not issued until very late in June of 2010.\u00a0 The briefing of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dealertrack<\/span> case ultimately renewed in 2010 and the oral argument was held on May 5, 2011.\u00a0 All the other cases argued that day have long since been decided; but, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dealertrack<\/span> decision has yet to be published.\u00a0 One can speculate why the opinion is taking so long or is on hold; but,\u00a0the delay\u00a0certainly highlights how this unsettled area of the law (compare <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">RCT v. Microsoft<\/span>\u00a0with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CyberSource v. Retail Decisions<\/span>)\u00a0is still a drag on industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pending appeal of the Dealertrack v. Huber case reflects just how long an appeal can take when an area of the law is unsettled.\u00a0 Back in October of 2009, the court granted the parties&#8217; joint motion to stay proceedings until the Bilski case was decided by the Supreme Court. [Link]\u00a0 As you may recall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4656,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions\/4656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}