Morgan Lewis’s legal team is highly educated and experienced, giving us both the scientific acumen needed to evaluate the complex technologies in question and allowing us to leverage years of successful trial experience. Our Intellectual Property Practice has over 205 intellectual property professionals and technical specialists, with one-fourth of these having advanced degrees in various technical specialties, thus making us capable of meeting the rapid U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) deadlines without sacrificing technological prowess. Moreover, we have former ITC attorneys, from both the General Counsel’s office and the investigative office (OUII), who are intimately familiar with the workings of the ITC. Success in the ITC also requires a sophisticated understanding of patent laws and procedures. Morgan Lewis lawyers have an active counseling and prosecution practice, obtaining approximately 1000 patents per year for our clients.
Unlike smaller “boutique” firms, Morgan Lewis offers the considerable resources of a 1,300-lawyer global law firm to help clients gain competitive advantage during an ITC 337 proceeding. Our size also enables us to provide a geographic and linguistic advantage to ITC clients. We have active patent practices in both China and Japan and technology practices in Europe. We also have critical mass in Washington, D.C., the home of the ITC, with lawyers and legal staff who are native speakers, fluent, or highly proficient in many languages, including Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean.