Sixty new Section 337 related complaints were filed at the ITC in 2016—a 50% increase over the previous year. This marks a reversal of a trend that saw a reduction of complaints from seventy-two in 2011 to only forty in 2015. The sixty complaints in 2016 included fifty-four for new violation proceedings, one request each for an advisory opinion and modification of remedial orders, and four enforcement actions.

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