Quantity Not Quality Required for Sex Toy Domestic Industry: Federal Circuit | Practical Law
In Lelo, Inc. v. ITC, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that an International Trade Commission (ITC) claimant seeking to enforce patent rights must provide quantitative data to establish significant investment in plant and equipment and significant employment of labor or capital under the relevant prongs of the domestic industry requirement of 19 U.S.C. § 1337(a)(3).