The Trade Protection Not Troll Protection ("TPTP") Act, H.R. 4829, was introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif., and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, on March 22, 2016. The bill seeks to ensure that "the resources of the U.S. International Trade Commission are focused on protecting genuine domestic industries" by narrowing the domestic industry requirement of 19 U.S.C. § 1337. In this article, Finnegan attorneys Lionel M. Lavenue, R. Benjamin Cassady, Michael Liu Su, and Laith M. Abu-Taleb review the The Trade Protection Not Troll Protection ("TPTP") Act.
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