On May 8, 2018, the ITC published in the Federal Register (83 F.R. 21140) long-awaited revisions to its Rules governing Section 337 investigations. The ITC made several amendments to its Rules including (1) codifying the pilot…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
Trademark owners seeking non-monetary relief for infringement can turn to the U.S. International Trade Commission. The ITC offers a variety of powerful remedies pursuant to Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
On July 11, 2017, Federal Circuit Judges Prost, O’Malley, and Chen heard oral arguments in the appeal captioned Instradent USA, Inc. v. ITC, No. 16-2336 (Fed. Cir.), and, on July 19, 2017, issued a Rule 36 judgment affirming the…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
Since the passage of the America Invents Act (“AIA”) in 2011, Inter Partes Reviews (“IPRs”) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) have assumed growing importance in patent litigation in federal district courts. …
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
On April 20, 2017, the Commission heard oral arguments in Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Products, Inv. No. 337-TA-1002, in connection with its review of Judge Lord’s Initial Determination dismissing complainant U.S. Steel’s…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Constitutional Law, Energy & Utilities, International Law & Trade
In a recent decision in UV Curable Coatings for Optical Fibers, Inv. No. 337-TA-1031, Judge MaryJoan McNamara struck a respondent’s inequitable conduct defense, which the respondent based on the complainants’ conduct during IPRs…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On February 15, 2017, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Commission’s imposition of severe, case dispositive sanctions on Respondents for bad faith spoliation of evidence as well as the issuance of a 25-year limited exclusion…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
Recent decisions by the Commission highlight a split among the Commissioners over the proper standard for issuing cease and desist orders.
The majority of Commissioners appear to agree that the determination regarding whether…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
On January 26, 2017, after taking the unusual step of ordering a full International Trade Commission oral hearing to consider issues including laches, remedy, and public interest, the Commission issued a limited exclusion order…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
In 3D Cinema Systems (Inv. 939), the Commission issued an opinion that explained why it did not give deference to a decision of invalidity by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in an inter partes review (IPR)…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On November 28, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a writ of certiorari seeking appeal of the Federal Circuit’s decision to uphold the ITC’s imposition of a $6.2 million penalty against DBN, Inc. and BDN LLC (collectively,…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Since February 2015, when the ITC announced its Pilot Program for expedited rulings on whether ITC exclusion and cease-and-desist orders cover redesigns or new products, the Commission has issued four decisions under the program…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
The ITC’s docket experienced a strong uptick in 2016, with new investigations approaching the record highs of 2010 and 2011, the years of the smartphone wars. 54 new investigations were instituted at the ITC in 2016, compared…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
In the last year, this blog has covered a number of substantial developments at the International Trade Commission. Among other things, 2016 saw (1) an increased usage of the ITC’s 100-day program for early resolution of…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Commission will review Judge Dee Lord’s initial determination (“ID”) dismissing U.S. Steel’s antitrust claims on the pleadings. As we previously posted (here), Judge Lord ruled that U.S. Steel was required to plead federal…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law & Trade
