Post 13 Petition and Complaints filed with USITC Part 1

Recently I checked on the information about recent petitions and complaints filed with the USITC. It's not surprise that many cases are related to the wireless devices related industries and products. The followings are the list of petition and complaints filed since 2013:

Docket No.	Received		Type		Commodity	Investigation No.
2944	2013/03/14		103 Request		North American Free Trade Agreement Rules of Origin	Pending Institution
2943	2013/03/12		337 Complaint		Certain Electronic Devices having Placeshifting or Display Replication Functionality	Pending Institution
2942	2013/03/11		337 Complaint		Microelectromechanical Systems ("MEMS Devices")	Pending Institution
2941	2013/02/22		337 Complaint		Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Products	Pending Institution
2940	2013/02/20		337 Complaint		Products Having Laminated Packaging, Laminated Packaging, and Components	Pending Institution
2939	2013/02/19		337 Enforcement Complaint		Dimmable Compact Fluorescent Lamps and Products	Pending Institution
2938	2013/02/08		337 Complaint		Integrated Circuit Devices	337-TA-873
2937	2013/01/30		332 Request		United States-Korea Free Trade	Pending Institution
2936	2013/01/29		337 Complaint		Omega-3 Extracts from Marine or aquatic Biomass	Pending Institution
2935	2013/01/28		337 Complaint		Compact Fluorescent Reflector Lamps	337-TA-872
2934	2013/01/24		337 Complaint		Wireless Communications Base Stations	337-TA-871
2933	2013/01/18		337 Complaint		Sealing Rings for Utility Meters	Withdrawn
2932	2013/01/14		337 Complaint		Electronic Bark Control Collars	337-TA-870
2931	2012/01/10		332 Request		Generalized System of Preferences	Pending Institution
2930	2012/01/04		337 Complaint		Robotic Toys	337-TA-869
2929	2013/01/02		337 Complaint		Wireless Devices with 3G and/or 4G Capabilities and Components	337-TA-868

From the list, we can see three complaints are related to the wireless communication industry. I am going to start with case #2929, the complaint regarding to "Wireless Devices with 3G and/or 4G Capabilities and Components." The complaint was filed by Bert C. Reiser, a member of the Latham & Watkins’s Intellectual Property Practice Group and International Trade Commission (ITC) Patent Litigation Practice Group, on behave of several telecommunication companies. The list of targets in this complaints, are very interesting:

 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea; Samsung Electronics America, Inc., Ridgefield Park, NJ; Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, Richardson, TX; Nokia Corporation, Finland; Nokia Inc.,White Plains, NY; ZTE Corporation, China; ZTE (USA) Inc., Richardson, TX; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China; Huawei Device USA, Inc., Plano, TX; and FutureWei Technologies, Inc., d/b/a Huawei Technologies (USA), Plano, TX.

So, Samsung, Nokia, ZTE and Huawei were all subjected in their wireless devices with 3G/4G capabilities. However, according to this web page, ITC has not yet made any decision on the merits of the case. I am very curious to see what would be the result of this complaint and what impact it would make to the product sales of these companies in the US.