The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain mobile devices and related software pursuant to a complaint.
STANFORD, Calif. -- Major question marks hang over the nearly completed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), said Director Richard Owens of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s copyright law division. One is whether it’s enforceable by “fiat” of the chief executives of the 38 participating developed countries without legislative ratification, and another is the “precedential value” in promoting compliance, including by the many nonparticipants, he said last week at a Stanford Law School conference.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain automated media library devices pursuant to a complaint.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain products containing interactive program guide and parental controls technology pursuant to a complaint.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain data storage products and components thereof pursuant to a complaint.
The International Trade Data System has posted a report1 discussing how global e-commerce data could be integrated into the decision-support process for government admission of products at international borders. The report also states that pilots using such data for high-risk shipments began in the second half of 2010.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a questions and answers document from its October 27, 2010 webinar providing an update on the Automated Commercial Environment.
The International Trade Administration is revoking the antidumping duty order on certain non-frozen apple juice concentrate from China (A-570-855), pursuant to the final results of its five-year sunset review.
The Court of International Trade has dismissed All Tools’ complaints in All Tools, Inc. v. U.S., in which All Tools argued the deadline for filing its lawsuit seeking an order to reclassify certain paint brushes was “equitably tolled” because U.S. Customs and Border Protection had not issued a protest number in a timely manner.
On November 9, 2010, the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC) met in Washington, DC to discuss a variety of trade issues.