Tag: ITC
ITC Remedies Don’t Have To Be All-Or-Nothing
The International Trade Commission’s (ITC) basic function is to protect American industry against unfair foreign competition by prohibiting the importation of unfairly produced trade goods. That i...
Using A Trade Court To Avoid Antitrust And FRAND: Qualcomm At The ITC
The first Apple/Qualcomm International Trade Commission (ITC) case is about to kick into high gear, with the prehearing conference scheduled for Friday and the hearing (essentially the equivalent of a...
Why Is The ITC Instituting Investigations On Expiring Patents?
Yesterday, the ITC published the Federal Register notice of the initial determination of an ITC administrative law judge (ALJ). The ALJ determined that the investigation, instituted in January based...
A Balanced Patent System to Protect Innovation
Now more than ever we need a strong patent system which strikes the right balance so that intellectual property rights encourage innovation rather than financial gamesmanship. The need to ...
Now The ITC Is Banning Products Over Invalid Patents
Update: Dan Lang, who commented on this post below, has provided an expansion of the thoughts in his comment. His detailed comments can be found here.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) is su...
Saying Doesn’t Make It So—Why You Still Shouldn’t Listen To Qualcomm
Last week, CCIA filed a statement on the public interest in Qualcomm v. Apple at the International Trade Commission (ITC), Qualcomm’s newest attempt to use patent law to reinforce their monopoly pow...
If Qualcomm Wins At The ITC, We All Lose
This afternoon, CCIA filed comments on the public interest in the Qualcomm v. Apple case pending at the International Trade Commission (ITC). Qualcomm sued Apple in the ITC as part of the large disp...
International Trade, Not Interrupted Trade—Trolls and the ITC
You hear a lot about patent litigation in district courts. And, over the past several years, the new inter partes review procedure has seen a lot of attention (including last week’s renewed effort...
Another Good Bill Introduced, This Time on ITC Reform
The last couple of weeks have seen two good patent bills introduced, first the VENUE Act, and now the Trade Protection Not Troll Protection Act. This bipartisan bill closes loopholes at the Internatio...