On January 4, 2010, ALJ E. James Gildea issued Order No. 1: Protective Order; and Order No. 2: Notice of Ground Rules and Setting Target Date and Date for Submission of Proposed Procedural Schedule in Certain Restraining Systems For Transport Containers, Components Thereof, and Methods of Using Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-696). In Order No. 2, [...]

On January 4, 2010, ALJ E. James Gildea issued Order No. 4:  Setting Procedural Schedule in Certain Ceramic Capacitors and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-692). In the Order, ALJ Gildea sets the procedural schedule for the investigation and includes provisions for the early exchange of claim construction terms and proposed constructions and also includes [...]

On December 30, 2009, ALJ Robert K. Rogers, Jr. issued Order No. 5:  Setting Procedural Schedule and Order No. 6:  Setting Target Date in Certain Silicon Microphone Packages and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-695). In Order No. 5, ALJ Rogers sets the procedural schedule for the investigation (Exhibit A) and includes provisions for [...]

Further to our December 30, 2009 post, Chief ALJ Paul J. Luckern issued a notice assigning ALJ Charles E. Bullock as the presiding Administrative Law Judge in Certain Liquid Crystal Display Devices and Products Containing The Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-699).

On December 31, 2009, the U.S. International Trade Commission issued a press release announcing that it voted to institute an investigation of Certain MEMS Devices and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-700). The investigation is based on a December 1, 2009 complaint, a December 9, 2009 supplement to the complaint, and a December 22, 2009 [...]

The Federal Circuit was scheduled to hear oral argument today in Deere & Company v. ITC, (2009-1016). On January 8, 2003, Deere & Company (“Deere”) filed a complaint alleging violations of Section 337 in the importation into the United States, sale for importation, and sale within the United States after importation of certain agricultural vehicles [...]

Under Section 337, complainants may seek and obtain temporary relief within a short time period.  Where such a motion for temporary relief is filed, and an investigation is instituted, the time period until a final determination by the Commission on the motion for temporary relief is extremely short, 90 days in most cases, and 150 [...]