Federal circuit curbs ITC jurisdiction
20 October 2008
Eileen McDermott, New York
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Tuesday that the International Trade Commission could not extend a limited exclusion order (LEO) barring the import of Qualcomm chips found to infringe Broadcom’s patent to downstream products
In October 2006, a presiding judge of the ITC initially determined that Qualcomm had violated Section 337 of the 1930 Tariff Act and infringed five claims of Broadcom’s patent number 6,714,983 through importation and sales in the US.
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