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The broadest treatment that the International Trade Commission (ITC or the Commission) can provide under 19 U.S.C. § 1337 (Area 337) is a General Exemption Order (GEO), which obstructs importation of all infringing items despite source, even by importers who were not participants in the ITC examination. GEOs are harder to get than the more typical Restricted Exemption Order (LEO) as they need extra evidence either that an LEO will not suffice to stop the infringing imports or that there is an extensive pattern of infraction of the asserted IP.
