Judge Elliot is an administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission. He presides over investigations, conducts evidentiary hearings, and makes initial determinations in the agency’s investigations involving unfair practices in import trade. These investigations most often involve allegations of patent and trademark infringement. Prior to joining the USITC, ALJ Elliot served as an ALJ with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC, and the Social Security Administration in New York, NY, and Newark, NJ. He was an attorney at Darby & Darby, a New York intellectual property specialty firm, prior to his ALJ appointment. Earlier in his career, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, NY, and the Southern District of Florida in Miami. He was also a trial attorney on the Intellectual Property Staff of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division. He began his legal career as a judicial law clerk for U.S. District Judge Edward Reed in Reno, NV. ALJ Elliot attended Harvard Law School and majored in physics and applied physics at Yale. Prior to law school he served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy and Naval Reserve