The RIAA suffered minor scrapes in its P2P litigation strategy recently, and opposing lawyers are taking advantage of the setbacks in other cases, including one set for oral argument Friday. A judge told the trade group that its standard complaint against a defendant alleged to have shared copyrighted files was too vague to be considered. And in a case not brought by the association, an appeals court cast doubt on the soundness of the RIAA’s theory that copyrighted files can be infringed even without access by other users.
The International Trade Commission voted to investigate whether Nokia’s 3G WCDMA handsets infringe InterDigital patents. The commission has “not yet made any decisions on the merits of the case,” it said in its announcement late Wednesday. A Nokia spokeswoman said the company would defend its rights, products and integrity. Regardless of the outcome, the investigation could hurt Nokia’s effort to persuade the commission to investigate Qualcomm, said Jay Sandvos, a lawyer with Bromberg and Sunstein.
Net neutrality rules could harm competition by blocking service providers from offering premium services and prioritizing “latency-sensitive content” such as streaming video, the Justice Department told the FCC in an ex parte filing on a commission inquiry into broadband industry practices. Justice warned against “prophylactic” controls that could require providers to ignore demand and avoid investing in network upgrades. Critics panned the agency’s filing as a sop to the Bells, and some warned that warrantless surveillance would only grow without neutrality rules.
Net neutrality rules could harm competition by blocking service providers from offering premium services and prioritizing “latency-sensitive content” such as streaming video, the Justice Department told the FCC in an ex parte filing on a commission inquiry into broadband industry practices. Justice warned against “prophylactic” controls that could require providers to ignore demand and avoid investing in network upgrades. Critics panned the agency’s filing as a sop to the Bells, and some warned that warrantless surveillance would only grow without neutrality rules.
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The International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission have each issued notices initiating automatic five-year Sunset Reviews on the above-listed antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
According to Zisser Group and Global Data Mining, LLC, more than 40 importers, including Totes-Isotoner, Target (and its affiliate Associated Merchandising Corp.), Payless Shoesource, Asics, Columbia Sportswear, and Steve Madden have filed complaints with the U.S. Court of International Trade accusing the U.S. of gender and age discrimination in the tariffs its imposes on similar items of apparel, footwear, and gloves. These companies state that more than 2,200 pairs of HTS codes are impacted by discriminatory duties (over 300 for age discrimination and more than 1,900 for gender discrimination). (See ITT's Online Archives or 08/07/07 news, 07080725, for BP summary on Target's and Totes-Isotoner's cases.) (Full article available via email by sending a request to documents@brokerpower.com)
The Department of Homeland Security has issued several recent notices related to the Automated Targeting System (ATS).
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements has issued an electronic notice inviting interested parties to a meeting on September 19, 2007 in Washington, DC to discuss "due diligence" in the U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA)1 commercial availability process.
Unwilling to let Qualcomm’s harried attorneys rest, Nokia complained to the U.S. International Trade Commission that Qualcomm committed unfair trade practices by infringing five Nokia patents in its CDMA and WCDMA/GSM chipsets, it said Friday. Nokia wants an ITC ban on import of the chipsets and devices using them, as occurred with Qualcomm chips infringing Broadcom patents. The Thursday filing came the same week a federal judge in Santa Ana, Calif., ordered Qualcomm to pay Broadcom double damages and attorney’s fees (CD Aug 15 p10) and less than two weeks after the president declined to veto the ITC ban (CD Aug 7 p3) and a San Diego judge ruled against Qualcomm in a separate Broadcom patent dispute (CD Aug 8 p6).
According to Trade Support Network (TSN) sources,1,2 Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A23 will be phased-in for ACE accounts on a filer-by-filer basis instead of deploying overnight, or phasing the system in on a port-by-port basis.