The Law Office of T. Spence Chubb is based in Washington, D.C. and specializes in fast-paced Section 337 litigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission and other intellectual property litigation. 

T. Spence Chubb is an intellectual property litigator with over thirty years of dedicated experience in ITC Section 337 investigations, of which over twenty years (1989-2010) were spent serving the ITC as a Supervisory Attorney in the Office of Unfair Import Investigations (“OUII”), preceded by three years serving as an ITC staff trial attorney.  During that evolutionary time period, as the ITC caseload transitioned to more sophisticated computer and electronics technologies and industries, Spence directly managed one half of the ITC’s entire nationwide docket of Section 337 investigations. 

Since leaving the Commission, Spence has continued to focus on Section 337 litigation, but now in private practice.  Spence continues to appear regularly before the ITC on behalf of both large multinational corporate clients and smaller companies, in a wide range of technologies. And as the proprietor of a small law firm, Spence has considerable experience in working remotely with his co-counsel and with counsel for the other parties and non-parties, as well as in interacting electronically with the Commission.

Experience

2014-present

Principal

Law Office of T. Spence Chubb
Washington, D.C.

2010-14
Special Counsel
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Washington, D.C.

1989-2010
Supervisory Attorney
U.S. International Trade Commission
Office of Unfair Import Investigations

Washington, D.C.

1986-89

Investigative Attorney
U.S. International Trade Commission
Office of Unfair Import Investigations

Washington, D.C.

Prior experience as an associate attorney at the law firms of Craig & Burns, Washington, D.C., and Cladouhos & Brashares, Los Angeles, CA and Washington, D.C.

Education

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. 1980

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A. 1976 (Math and English)

Admitted to practice

California, District of Columbia, and several federal courts, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Professional honors and activities

   While with the ITC, Spence received the Commission's highest award, the Commissioners’ Award for Exceptional Service (2006), and the Commission's second highest award, the Distinguished Service Award (2002). 

   Spence has been listed as a leading patent litigator in the 2012-2016 editions of IAM 1000: The World's Leading Patent Professionals (ranked as a "Luminary" in 2016) and in the 2011 edition of IAM Patent Litigation 250. 

   Spence frequently speaks before bar groups on Section 337 practice.  He maintains an active role in the ITC Trial Lawyers Association, including service as a member of the Executive Committee (terms of 1991–94, 2011–14, and 2015-2018).  In 2015, Spence was selected as a contributing author for IP Law360's Voices of the Bar series.