Amid claims that its client was unfairly bullied by protectionist Chinese courts, a team from Covington & Burling has won a key victory at the U.S. International Trade Commission in an intercontinental patent feud involving mobile device technology.

In a decisive, 231-page ruling issued publicly on Oct. 15, ITC Administrative Law Judge James Gildea found that China’s GoerTek Inc. and GoerTek Electronics Inc. infringed three patents owned by Knowles Corporation, an Illinois-based company that makes microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphones used in market-leading cell phones, smartphones and tablets. Gildea recommended that all imports of GoerTek’s products be banned.

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