The Supreme Court partially granted Samsung’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking a review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s May ruling that whittled down the amount of damages the company is required to pay Apple in a patent infringement lawsuit Samsung lost in 2012.
The Energy Department’s proposal to require the filing of additional data elements in ACE for products subject to energy efficiency standards is unnecessarily burdensome, and runs contrary to the federal government’s stated goal of simplifying the import process, said manufacturer and importer associations in comments submitted to the agency (here). The proposed rule results from a misunderstanding of the roles various parties play in the import process, seeking data from importers that is best and most easily – and already – submitted by manufacturers, they said.
The Food and Drug Administration will in the coming days release a new version of its supplemental guide for filing in ACE, said Jessica Aranda, FDA’s ACE outreach lead, during a March 15 webinar. The update will include a number of tweaks, bug fixes and clarifications based on feedback it has received from the trade community. FDA also plans on setting up a 24 help desk for ACE in the “near future,” said Aranda.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 6-13:
International Trade Today is providing readers with some of the top stories for March 7 - March 11 in case they were missed.
Competition between Chinese garlic exporters recently spilled over into Los Angeles federal district court, with both sides alleging manipulation of antidumping duty rates in order to obtain a commercial advantage. Harmoni International and its Chinese subsidiary, Zhengzhou Harmoni, allege a constellation of Chinese companies, many with common ownership, are working a racketeering scheme designed to fraudulently obtain lower AD rates, while artificially inflating Harmoni’s. Those companies contend that it is Harmoni that has been engaging in rate manipulation by colluding with the coalition of domestic garlic distributors that originally requested AD duties on garlic.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 29 - March 6:
International Trade Today is providing readers with some of the top stories for Feb. 29 - March 4 in case they were missed.
Trademarks do not have to be registered with the Patent and Trademark Office in order to qualify for less stringent CBP country of origin marking rules, said the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a March 2 decision (here). In a dispute over how prominently a jeans importer with “U.S.A.” in its brand name must mark jeans made in China, CAFC overturned the Court of International Trade in holding the company’s unregistered marks are sufficient to allow the country of origin be listed on a small tag rather than in large letters next to the brand name.
The FCC, several trade associations and a group of broadcasters attempted through court filings to fend off a stay of the incentive auction requested by Class A broadcaster Latina Broadcasters in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The auction is to start March 29. “Any unnecessary delay, especially this close to the start of the auction, would cause substantial harm” to companies that have delayed business plans or have investments or financing riding on the current schedule,” the FCC said in an opposition filing Friday.