Tom Jarvis

Tom Jarvis is the chair of Winston & Strawn‘s ITC practice who litigates patent and other unfair competition cases at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). Over the past 34 years, Tom has totaled more than 150 trial days as lead trial counsel across more than 60 ITC Section 337 cases.

Tom has a top-tier rating for his ITC representation of an “array of technology sector clients” (Chambers USA), including leading designers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment, smartphones, microprocessors, digital signal processors, memory device, networking equipment, semiconductor fabrication processes and packaging, and various operating systems and application software. His ITC cases also extend to diverse technologies such as medical devices, industrial equipment, design automation tools, alkaline batteries, and a wide variety of consumer products. Chambers USA praises Tom’s “excellent track record at the ITC” and describes him as “an expert at the unique procedures of the ITC and very in tune with the mindset within the ITC.“  He is warmly lauded by commentators, who say that “the ITC is a high-stakes, high-pressure environment and Tom is a master of that environment. He makes everything run smoothly, from pre-litigation work to post-trial procedures” (Chambers USA).

At Winston, Tom has led a successful Comcast ITC defense against Rovi/Tivo through trial, two Ericsson ITC cases against Apple that included a trial resulting in a settlement, two Taiwanese semiconductor company cases against Spansion that settled favorably after trial in the ITC, defended Ericsson in the ITC against Adaptix/Acacia, and supervised a variety of smaller cases. Previously, Tom led the defense of Research In Motion (BlackBerry) that invalidated the Kodak patent that had earlier extracted about $1 billion in royalties from Korean cell phone manufacturers in a prior ITC case. He also led multiple HTC, S3 Graphics, and VIA Technologies cases through trial against Apple.  Tom has also represented Action Semiconductor, Atheros, BIAX, Broadcom, Everex, Gold Peak, Hitachi, LG, Nikon, Nippon Steel, Seoul Semiconductor, Sony, Tate & Lyle, and Tyco in patent litigations at the ITC.

Previously, Tom was a Senior Investigative Attorney at the ITC where he litigated patent cases for 10 years in the ITC’s Office of Unfair Import Investigations. While there, Tom designed the Commission’s first generation Electronic Document Information System (EDIS) that tracks all documents filed with and issued in all investigations and designed and coded the Commission’s first-generation Unfair Import Investigations Information System (337Info), both of which are the foundations of the ITC’s current online services.