Every Filing Has Two Versions. Keep Them Consistent.
Confidential and public versions are a production discipline, and the place 337 productions most often come apart. Nearly every substantive filing in a Section 337 investigation exists twice: a confidential version and a public version with the business information removed. Both are filed electronically through EDIS, on a schedule that leaves no time to rebuild […]
Domestic Industry Is a Document Production Problem
The economic prong turns on investment records that live in systems nobody collects from in ordinary litigation. The economic prong of the domestic industry requirement asks whether there are significant investments in plant and equipment, significant employment of labor or capital, or substantial investment in exploitation including engineering, research and development, or licensing. Each of […]
The 100-Day Order: What It Demands of a Respondent
An early disposition request compresses an already short schedule into a sprint that starts before institution. A respondent who wants a dispositive issue decided early asks for it before institution, typically around two weeks after the complaint is filed. If the Commission grants it, the notice of institution directs the ALJ to issue an initial […]
Read the Ground Rules Before You Process a Single Document
Each ALJ sets their own. Production format, exhibit handling and witness statements are decided there, not by a Commission-wide standard. The first thing that should happen on a Section 337 investigation, before collection and well before processing, is that somebody reads the assigned judge’s ground rules and writes down what they require. Vendors who skip […]
Discovery Starts the Day After Institution. Your Collection Has Not.
Requests can issue immediately and responses come due in days, not the thirty a federal civil case allows. In a federal civil case, a party has thirty days to respond to document requests and the schedule is negotiable. In a Section 337 investigation, discovery requests may be served the day after the institution notice publishes, […]
Choosing Litigation Support for ITC Filing: Eight Questions Worth Asking
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Choosing litigation support for ITC filing is a different exercise from picking a district court vendor. The same firm that performs well on a two-year commercial case can come apart on a 337 schedule, and the failure usually shows up late, when there is no time to […]
ITC Section 337 Litigation Support for Law Firms
Arlington, Virginia · Minutes from the U.S. International Trade Commission · Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides litigation support for ITC filing — eDiscovery, redaction, certified translation, and exhibit production for law firms handling Section 337 investigations. We have supported ITC matters before, and we built our workflow around the three things that make this forum […]