Managing IP | ‘A Year Like No Other’: Alston & Bird Enjoys ITC Boom

Alston & Bird defended ASUS against claims that its computer products infringed three patents owned by Lenovo. In a victory for ASUS, the International Trade Commission on February 5 determined that all asserted claims in the three patents asserted by Lenovo were not infringed, invalid or both.

Alston & Bird was named U.S. Firm of the Year – International Trade Commission (ITC) at the Managing IP Awards 2022. The firm was selected for this recognition from among hundreds that practice at the ITC, arguably the world’s premier IP litigation forum.

Alston & Bird client Navico Inc. has won an initial determination by a U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Administrative Law Judge, who recommended a $37 million fine against Garmin International Inc. and related Garmin entities. The penalty – the largest ever in an ITC investigation – concerns Garmin’s importation and sale of fishfinder products that utilize scanning sonar technologies patented by Navico