Commissioner Aranoff recused herself from our ITC case and others. I did check on a few of the other cases and the common denominator seems to be the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson. They are representing Huawei in our ITC case and they represented clients in the other cases for which Aranoff recused herself.

In a previous post of mine, I addressed a possible conflict of interest for David O Lloyd who is a staff member in our ITC case. He previously worked for a law firm whose partner had represented Samsung. I questioned whether or not he should have recused himself.

David O Lloyd was formerly an Associate of Friedman Wittenstein

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-lloyd/12/b78/420

The clients Mr. Friedman has represented include well-known corporations and entities such as Haworth, Inc., The American Stock Exchange, The New York Board of Trade, Total Petrochemicals USA, Farmland Dairies, Samsung, Priceline WebHouse, the United States Squash Rackets Association and the Boomer Esiason Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, as well as numerous private companies, associations and individuals. Among Mr. Friedman’s many cases, he has represented clients in disputes involving patent licensing systems and intellectual property rights in the textile and yarn industry; the firing of air traffic controllers by the FAA under the Reagan Administration; the broadcast rights of the Tour de France bicycle race; the size and types of permissible sailing vessels in the America’s Cup Race; the electric system utilized in movable walls of office furniture; the software and computer platforms of electronic trading on registered United States stock exchanges; the nationalization of businesses in Iran following the Iranian revolution; the application of the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution to corporate pleas of nolo contendere; alleged price fixing in the bread and dairy industries; damage to an oil tanker by fire on the high seas; the intellectual property rights to the listing and trading of exchange traded funds on securities exchanges; and international licensing and patent rights in the semi-conductor computer chip industry.

http://www.friedmanwittenstein.com/attorney.asp?langdisp=&key=134