On January 31, 2012, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued the public version of Order No. 33 (dated January 9, 2012) concerning a motion for leave to serve a supplemental expert report and a motion to strike one of Respondents’ supplemental expert reports filed by the Complainants Creative Kingdoms, LLC and New Kingdoms, LLC (collectively, [...]

On January 31, 2012, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order Nos. 23 and 25 in Certain Static Random Access Memories and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-792). In Order No. 23, ALJ Bullock granted a joint motion filed by Complainant Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (“Cypress”) and Respondent Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (“ALU USA”) to terminate the [...]

Further to our December 16, 2011 and January 12, 2012 posts, on January 24, 2012, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 5 in Certain Products Containing Interactive Program Guide And Parental Control Technology (Inv. No. 337-TA-820). In the Order, ALJ Bullock included provisions for the early exchange of claim terms, claim construction expert [...]

Further to our January 9, 2012 post, on January 10, 2012, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 2 in Certain Kinesiotherapy Devices and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-823). In the Order, ALJ Bullock set May 10, 2013 as the target date for completing the investigation (which is sixteen months after institution of the [...]

Further to our December 16, 2011 post, on January 10, 2012, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 4 in Certain Products Containing Interactive Program Guide And Parental Controls Technology (Inv. No. 337-TA-820). In the Order, ALJ Bullock set July 22, 2013 as the target date for completing the investigation (which is nineteen months [...]

On January 3, 2012, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 37 in Certain Automated Media Library Devices (Inv. No. 337-TA-746).  In the Order, ALJ Bullock determined to strike Respondents BDT AG, BDT Automation Technology, BDT de Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V., and BDT Products, Inc.’s (collectively, “BDT”) post-trial reply brief in its [...]

On December 21, 2011, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued the public version of the Initial Determination (“ID”) (dated October 17, 2011) finding no violation of Section 337 in Certain Portable Electronic Devices and Related Software (Inv. No. 337-TA-721). By way of background, the Complainant in this investigation is HTC Corporation (“HTC”) and the Respondent is Apple [...]

On December 28, 2011, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 18 in Certain Static Random Access Memories and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-792). In the Order, ALJ Bullock denied a joint motion filed by Complainant Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (“Cypress”) and Respondents Nokia Siemens Networks BV and Nokia Siemens Networks US LLC (collectively, [...]

Further to our October 28, 2011 and November 28, 2011 posts, on December 21, 2011, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 6: Setting Procedural Schedule in Certain Navigation Products, Components Thereof, and Related Software (Inv. No. 337-TA-810). In the Order, ALJ Bullock included provisions for the early exchange of claim terms, claim construction [...]

On December 14, 2011, ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued the public version of Order No. 28 (dated December 1, 2011) granting-in-part Complainants Creative Kingdoms, LLC and New Kingdoms, LLC’s (collectively, “Creative Kingdoms”) motion to compel discovery responses from Respondents Nintendo of America, Inc. and Nintendo Co., Ltd. (collectively, “Nintendo”) in Certain Video Game Systems and [...]