Companies are increasingly filing patent infringement cases before the International Trade Commission instead of the federal courts, because it is easier to get an order stopping the infringement at the ITC, Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission officials told Congress last week.
“I can’t speak to the motivations of all the parties for seeking relief from the ITC, but we are concerned that that is happening,” Joseph Wayland, acting assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s antitrust division, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 11.
