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Perspective

May 9, 2012

ITC Section 337 investigations: tips for discovery in the rocket-docket

The fast-pace of discovery during a Section 337 investigation can be disorienting if you're not prepared. By Andrew Flior, Lindsey Martinez and Elizabeth M. Weldon of Snell & Wilmer LLP


By Andrew Flior, Lindsey Martinez, and Elizabeth M. Weldon


It's 4 p.m. on a Friday and your client calls in a panic after sending you a complaint for patent infringement, along with a lengthy set of discovery requests. You think the client must have something wrong - surely discovery could not have started in a patent case if you have not even responded to the complaint? Upon inspection of the complaint, as well as a notice of inves...

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