The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation1 of certain turbomachinery blades, engines, and components thereof pursuant to a complaint.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a final rule to establish a publicly available and searchable database on CPSC’s Web site of consumer product safety incidents (and incidents involving other products and substances regulated by CPSC), as required by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA).
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has posted a comprehensive list of the “Special Case” Codes1 that are currently allowed to be used when completing the Lacey Act Declaration (PPQ 505 - Plant and Plant Product Declaration Form).
One of Zoran’s largest shareholders thinks the company’s shares are “deeply undervalued” and wants to replace its board with its own slate of directors, the shareholder, Ramius Value and Opportunity Advisors, told Zoran CEO Levy Gerzberg in a letter Monday. Copies were filed at the SEC. Ramius, which owns 8.3 percent of Zoran’s outstanding shares, said it blames the company’s “long-term fundamental underperformance and repeated missed expectations for revenue growth and profitability” for the stock’s performance. The letter said: “Shareholders have grown increasingly frustrated with the current direction and leadership of Zoran.” Changes in the board “must be implemented without delay to restore credibility and proper guidance in order to improve performance at Zoran,” the letter said. For example, Zoran’s “long-term objectives in the DTV business are unclear and misguided,” it said. “The DTV business is highly competitive, consisting of many low-cost Asian based suppliers fighting for market share and in some cases selling products at, or even below, cost.” Yet “management’s proposed solution to the current issues facing the DTV business is to continue to invest heavily in R&D and Sales and Marketing to attempt to recapture market share losses and improve gross margins by penetrating the tier-one market and de-emphasizing the tier-two market. We believe that this is an ill-advised strategy that will not succeed.” Zoran shares closed 4.3 percent higher at $8.03 in Monday trading. Zoran executives didn’t respond right away to requests for comment.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor” in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order’s duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.
The International Trade Administration has initiated administrative reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders below, for certain specified companies listed in the initiation notice.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain liquid crystal display devices, including monitors, televisions, and modules, and components thereof pursuant to a complaint.
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.