The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation1 of certain electronic devices, including mobile phones, mobile tablets, portable music players, and computers, and components thereof pursuant to a complaint.
The FCC should allow for flexibility in meeting the requirements of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA), companies and trade associations told the commission in comments filed this week. But advocates for the deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind said the rules must not be so flexible that “accessibility is never achieved,” said joint comments filed by Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Inc., the National Association of the Deaf, Hearing Loss Association of America, Association of Late-Deaf Adults, American Association for the Deaf-Blind and the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consumer Advocacy Network. “The Commission must also avoid the situation where accessibility is achieved only in a minority of instances,” they said. “It is the clear intent of Congress … that it should be the rule that accessibility is to be achieved in most cases, and only in exceptional instances in which providers can show that accessibility is not achievable can this requirement be foregone,” they said.
In Canadian Wheat Board, et al. v. U.S., the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Court of International Trade decision that the U.S. government cannot retain unliquidated antidumping and countervailing duties that were deposited prior to the revocation of an AD or CV duty order, and that the duty depositors are entitled to a return of those duties.
Nintendo of America (NOA) denied that its 3DS and Wii videogame systems and related products infringed on Creative Kingdoms patents. Its comment Thursday was one day after the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) said it voted to institute an investigation into whether Nintendo’s videogame systems, as well as wireless controllers and components for them, infringed on patents owned by Creative Kingdoms and its New Kingdoms subsidiary.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation1 of certain video game systems and wireless controllers and components thereof pursuant to a complaint.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation1 of certain handheld electronic computing devices, related software, and components thereof pursuant to a complaint.
On April 12, 2011 the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America, Inc. sent a letter to the Federal Maritime Commission stating that more work is needed to ensure the benefits of FMC's final rule to exempt licensed non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCCs) from the rate tariff publication requirements of the Shipping Act of 1984, if they agree to negotiated rate arrangements (NRAs) with their shippers.1
On April 18, 2011, the Federal Maritime Commission issued a guidance document on how to comply with the FMC’s final rule to exempt licensed non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCCs) from the rate tariff publication requirements of the Shipping Act of 1984, if they agree to negotiated rate arrangements (NRAs) with their shippers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
The American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade and Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company, Inc. sought to participate as defendant-intervenors in a lawsuit brought by Chinese furniture makers following an antidumping duty scope ruling by the International Trade Administration in wooden bedroom furniture from China. These domestic producers had filed an appearance in the agency scope review and were thus legally an “interested party,” but did not submit argument or evidence in the review. The Court of International Trade ruled the domestic producers therefore had not gained rights as a “party to proceeding” at court, which requires participating, “through written submissions of factual information or written argument, in a segment of a proceeding.” (Slip Op. 11-40, dated 04/14/11)