“The US International Trade Commission is an increasingly popular patent enforcement agency especially among companies asserting patents against mobile devices, which are typically manufactured outside of the United States and therefore susceptible to import bans, which the ITC can order,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents.
“But the rising tide of litigation and the fact that fewer ITC investigations are settled at their early stages than in the past make it hard for the ITC to cope with its enormous workload,” Mueller reports. “There are definitely signs of the ITC slowing down a bit, even if it is still faster than the vast majority of United States district courts.”
Mueller reports, “The latest sign of a slowdown: on Friday, Administrative Law Judge Theodore Essex entered orders in the investigations of Microsoft’s and Apple’s complaints against Motorola Mobility (investigations no. 337-TA-744 and 337-TA-750, respectively), extending the target dates of those investigations — and consequently also the deadlines for his initial determinations — by ‘approximately six weeks.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: How convenient that a potential patent infringer gets into yet another Christmas shopping season with products that just might profit off of other companies’ patented intellectual property.
“MacDailyNews Take: How convenient that a potential patent infringer gets into yet another Christmas shopping season with products that just might profit off of other companies’ patented intellectual property.”
Could it be “The US International Trade Commission” has the best judges money can buy?
With Google being sooo close to the current administration, why is anyone surprised? Not the first time gov’t (or justice) was for sale.