Paul is a leading Section 337 litigator before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), a past President of the ITC Trial Lawyers Association, and the chair of the firm’s ITC Section 337 practice.  Paul has a reputation for matching extensive knowledge of the ITC’s practice and procedure with superior trial advocacy skills. Paul earned this reputation through his successful results as trial counsel in over 20 ITC trials and his involvement in over 60 ITC investigations. He also earned his reputation by starting at the beginning, with years of experience as the attorney-advisor to the ITC’s Chief Administrative Law Judge Paul J. Luckern.

From 2007 to present, Chambers has recognized Paul as a national leader in Intellectual Property Section 337 Litigation at the ITC noting “Paul just has a deep institutional knowledge of everything to do with the ITC and he runs those cases very well.” The Legal 500 has also recognized Paul for his “true ITC expertise” and commenting that he knows how to present cases “in the manner most conducive to success in this specialized area.” IAM Patent 1000 recognized Paul as being “as knowledgeable as they come on procedural and economic issues.” IAM Patent 1000 has also recognized Paul for his top-end skills as an intellectual property litigator and singled him out nationally for his ITC work and highlighting his trial abilities noting an admiring client’s comment that “Goulet is an agile thinker who can make tough decisions quickly.”

Paul has an intense focus, diving deeply into the unique dispositive issues that the ITC will address, while at the same time advancing the client’s litigation and business strategies. Paul is also known for making or breaking the ITC’s case-dispositive “domestic industry” requirement, with extensive experience working with his clients, including foreign entities, to establish a domestic industry recognized by the ITC, and a proven ability to defeat his clients’ adversaries claims of domestic industry. As a result, clients have achieved results that exceeded the original expectations of management and the public, even in the face of difficult challenges and fierce competition.

Paul has been a key participant in the global smartphone patent wars—having represented some of the world’s leading handset manufacturers and network infrastructure makers in the ITC—but he has also worked on a wide variety of technologies, from laser diodes, integrated circuit chipsets and graphics rendering to medical imaging, wind turbines, bulk welding wire, and hybrid electric transmissions.

In addition to his deep experience at the ITC, Paul has worked extensively with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency charged with enforcement of the ITC’s exclusion orders. He has not only filed ruling requests, but he is also skilled in working informally with Customs to secure enforcement against an adversary’s infringing products and safe passage for his clients’ redesigns.