Patents, Trump Administration, International Trade Commission (ITC)

How Should a Licensing Commitment Affect the Availability of Injunctions at the ITC?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 3/26/2025

Governed by 19 U.S.C. § 337, the U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) is empowered to investigate unfair acts in the importation of articles into the United States. The ITC can be a powerful forum for owners of U.S....more

FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape - January 2024

WilmerHale on 1/31/2024

This marks the first issue of WilmerHale’s FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape, a bulletin that will highlight developments about the licensing, litigation, and regulation of patents that are or are claimed...more

Breach of FRAND Implications on ITC Exclusion Orders In View of the Public’s Interest

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/8/2020

Imagine a scenario where the International Trade Commission (ITC) finds a respondent infringes a standard essential patent (SEP). An SEP that was included in a standard based on a voluntary promise to license it on fair,...more

Commissioner Kieff to Leave ITC

Jones Day on 6/14/2017

ITC Commissioner F. Scott Kieff has announced that he is leaving the ITC to return to his previous academic position as a professor at the George Washington University Law School. Kieff’s last day at the ITC will be June 30,...more

ITC Section 337 – Quarterly Highlights

Hogan Lovells on 5/4/2017

The Trump Administration’s Potential Impact on ITC Section 337 Cases - Most project the Trump administration as less inclined toward continued patent reform, more pro-patent, and certainly more trade protectionist, than...more

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Winter 2017

Fenwick & West LLP on 2/10/2017

A Smooth Patch in a Rough Road? Governmental Transition and Intellectual Property - Whenever a new Congress convenes, some IP issues come to the fore while others take a back seat. Transition to a new administration in the...more