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 […]
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 […]