What Chinese companies need to do to survive the ITC
21 June 2012
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Emma Barraclough, Beijing
Chinese companies got a crash lesson in defending IP actions at the US International Trade Commission today
The ITC has long been a feared forum for foreign – and particularly Chinese – companies exporting their products to the US. Its administrative judges can ban their imports and the procedures they follow force defendants to work fast if they want to defend their products.
But lawyers from Orrick and an in-house counsel from Eaton Investments provided plenty of practical advice for Chinese corporates that find themselves on the wrong of an ITC suit at Managing IP's China-International Forum today.
The key advice is that companies selling goods in the US must be prepared to deal with litigious rivals before they file any suits.
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