The U.S. International Trade Commission just published amendments to its rules of practice and procedure (“Commission Rules”), which will be effective for all Section 337 unfair importation investigations instituted after...more
September closed with ten new complaints of unfair competition under Section 337, including patent and trademark infringement, in the last two weeks of September. Five of those complaints were filed within the two-day span of...more
The U.S. International Trade Commission has declined to rescind remedial orders blocking importation of products found to infringe two patents that were recently found invalid by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S....more
The U.S. International Trade Commission is weighing the recommendation of an Administrative Law Judge that GPS gear-maker Garmin be fined $37 million for violating previous Commission orders. The Commission had found in 2015...more
In a wide-ranging investigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Converse asserted four trademarks against 31 respondents in an alleged Chuck Taylor look-a-like industry. After 22 of those respondents...more