Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP fields a seasoned group of practitioners who regularly litigate intellectual property disputes before the International Trade Commission and draw on the firm's cross-border expertise to serve a large international client roster. Leading the ITC practice from Washington DC, Eric Namrow is an intellectual property specialist and an expert in handling Section 337 investigations. The group also includes Michael Lyons in San Francisco, who focuses on tech-related IP litigation, Chicago-based IP lawyer Jason White, and Stephanie Roberts in DC, who routinely handles patent infringement and trade secret cases. Other key practitioners in DC include Kandis Gibson, whose practice focuses on Section 337 investigations, and Calvin Brien, who litigates intellectual property and related business tort cases.

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Key clients

General Electric Company
Consumer Lighting (US), LLC
Zebra Technologies Corporation
Boviet
Boway
Iljin Diamond
One World Technologies, Inc.
Techtronic Power Tools Technology Ltd.
HP Inc.
Hugel, Inc.
Bluenix Co. Ltd.
Blue Air FSE LLC

Work highlights

Acted for Iljin Diamond and five of its global subsidiaries in a multi-patent litigation at the ITC against allegations of patent infringement brought by US Synthetic.
Represented HP Inc. in a suit before the ITC brought by VideoLabs Inc. concerning video codec patents.
Represented Bluenix Co. Ltd. and its US subsidiary Blue Air FSE LLC in a Section 337 investigation before the ITC and in a multi-patent infringement case before the US District Court for the Central District of California, in a case concerning commercial icemaking machines and their component parts.