LOTES CO., LTD. v. HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO.

Docket No. 13-2280.

753 F.3d 395 (2014)

LOTES CO., LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., Ltd, Foxconn International Holdings, Ltd., Foxconn Electronics, Inc., Foxconn International, Inc., aka Foxcomm International, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, Foxconn (Kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd., Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 4, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas S. Gikkas , The Gikkas Law Firm, Palo Alto, CA ( Douglas M. Garrou and Ryan A. Shores , Hunton & Williams LLP, Richmond, VA, and Washington, DC, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant Lotes Co., Ltd.

Willard K. Tom ( Thomas M. Peterson , Thomas J. Lang , and Brian A. Herman , on the brief), Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC, and New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., Foxconn International Holdings, Ltd., Foxconn Electronics, Inc., and Foxconn International, Inc., aka Foxcomm International, Inc.

James Fredericks , U.S. Department of Justice ( William J. Baer , Assistant Attorney General, and Kristen C. Limarzi , Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice; Jonathan E. Nuechterlein , General Counsel, John F. Daly , Deputy General Counsel for Litigation, and Mark S. Hegedus , Attorney, Federal Trade Commission, on the brief), Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae the United States of America and the Federal Trade Commission.

Before: KATZMANN, Chief Judge, LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge, and CARTER, District Judge.


KATZMANN, Chief Judge:

This appeal presents important questions regarding the extraterritorial reach of U.S. antitrust law. The plaintiff, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company with facilities in China, alleges that the defendants, a group of five competing electronics firms, have attempted to leverage their ownership of certain key patents to gain control of a new technological standard for USB connectors and, by...

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