The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has broad power to issue exclusion orders blocking the importation of goods determined to have infringed or misappropriated complainants' IP rights.
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has broad power to issue exclusion orders blocking the importation of goods determined to have infringed or misappropriated complainants'.
The U.S. International Trade Commission ("ITC") is an independent, nonpartisan, quasi-judicial federal agency created by statute whose essential purpose is to stop imports of goods.
International business managers are sometimes surprised to learn that trade secrets do not neatly conform to territorial borders in the way that other intellectual property rights typically.
With the right strategy, businesses can leverage the extraterritorial application of trade secret law to protect their IP, says John Williamson of Finnegan.