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Floodgates are open post-Lashify, but complaints only trickle in at USITC

By Melissa Ritti ( September 8, 2025, 23:09 GMT | Insight) -- Following an expanded interpretation of the domestic industry requirement earlier this year, the path to exclusionary relief at the US International Trade Commission has never been easier. A predicted onslaught of Section 337 complaints has not materialized, however, and one practitioner said today the high cost of litigating at the quasi-judicial agency may be to blame.The US International Trade Commission has long been floated — including by Chief Administrative Law Judge Clark S. Cheney, himself, last fall (see here) — as a viable alternative to US district courts for patent owners in need of tangible relief....

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