BULLOCK NAMED U.S. ITC ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE
Judge Charles Edward Bullock has been appointed as an administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission, and will begin working at the position May 5.
Bullock will preside over evidentiary hearings and make initial determinations in proceedings involving imports alleged to infringe on U.S. patents, trademarks and copyrights.
Since June 1996, Bullock has been an administrative law judge with the Environmental Protection Agency. Before joining EPA, he served for 24 years with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. For the last 12 years of that FERC assignment, he was an administrative law judge, conducting hearings and writing initial decisions on multi-party cases involving electric utility and natural gas pipeline rates. Prior to his judgeship at FERC, he was a trial attorney and then an assistant general counsel.
The ITC is an independent, nonpartisan, agency that provides trade expertise to the legislative and executive branches of government, and directs actions against certain unfair trade practices, such as patent, trademark and copyright infringement.