As anticipated, on December 12, 2018, the
International Trade Commission ("ITC") issued a notice to
review the Final Initial Determination and Recommended
Determination ("FID") issued by Administrative Law Judge
("ALJ") Pender in In the Matter of Certain Mobile
Electronic Devices and Radio Frequency and Process Components
Thereof, 337-TA-1065 ("Certain Mobile Electronic
Devices"), where ALJ Pender, despite finding that a valid
patent was infringed and all jurisdictional requirements met,
recommended that no Limited Exclusion Order be issued against Apple
because it would be contrary to the public interest. See
Certain Mobile Electronic Devices, Commission Notice, Doc.
ID. 657154 (Dec. 12, 2018). If upheld by the ITC, ALJ Pender's
FID issued by in the 1065 Investigation will be only the fourth
time in the history of the ITC that a remedy was refused due to the
"public interest" factors1 and would mark the
first time that a limited exclusion order ("LEO")
would be