Insights

Washington – June 24, 2024: Crowell & Moring has been recommended in eight practice areas in the 17th edition of the Legal 500 United States. In addition, partner Daniel Forman, co-chair of the firm’s Government Contracts Group, has been named to the Legal 500’s “Hall of Fame” for Government Contracts.

On January 31, 2024, NETGEAR, Inc. sued Huawei in California federal court, claiming the Chinese tech giant broke U.S. antitrust laws by refusing to license its patents on reasonable terms. The Complaint accuses Huawei of fraud, racketeering, and other offenses for allegedly withholding patent licenses for technology that NETGEAR’s routers require in order to comply with the international Wi-Fi networking standards.

The Federal Circuit recently denied a petition for rehearing en banc in the much watched In re Cellect matter.  The landmark panel decision determined how obviousness-type double patenting (“ODP”) is impacted when patent term adjustment (“PTA”) is added to the term of one or more patents in a family under 35 U.S.C. § 154(b), resulting in different terms for the family member patents that would otherwise expire on the same day.

A recent Final Initial Determination (“FID”) from newly appointed Administrative Law Judge Hines confirmed the statutory authority of the International Trade Commission (“ITC” or “Commission”) to investigate the alleged importation of goods incorporating misappropriated trade secrets causing injury to a domestic industry, as held by the Federal Circuit in TianRui Grp. Co. Ltd. v. Int’l Trade Comm’n, 661 F.3d 1322 (Fed. Cir. 2011).  The ALJ also held that Complainant had proven its domestic industry had been substantially injured despite the fact that its revenue had increased during the same period.  For Crowell’s previous client alert on TianRui, see here.

Crowell & Moring is proud to sponsor ACI’s 14th Annual Practitioners’ Think Tank on ITC Litigation and Enforcement. Key members of the ITC Bench, Senior ITC attorneys, and leading In-House Counsel will spend two days of innovation and interactive discussions on the latest trends and developments in ITC litigation and enforcement. Crowell Partner Katie Clune will discuss the most important section 337 developments of the past year and their impact on ITC practice and procedure.

Crowell & Moring and ISUS IP are embarking on a new partnership to provide unique offerings to clients.

The Second Annual Duff & Phelps IP Value Summit will bring together corporate executives, attorneys, investors, and other intellectual property experts to discuss best practices, case examples, challenges and opportunities in valuing, managing, monetizing, structuring and defending IP assets.