Previously undisclosed details about allegations that an ex-Koss Corp. executive embezzled $31.4 million from her company over more than five years (CED Feb 2 p1) are contained in a new Koss lawsuit in which the company seeks to pin the blame on its former auditing firm for failing to uncover the illegal activity.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain inkjet ink cartridges with printheads and components thereof, pursuant to a complaint.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a finding by the Court of International Trade in favor of an International Trade Administration determination that mixed-wax candles imported by Target Corporation from China are “later-developed merchandise” that are legitimately included in the AD order on petroleum wax candles from China.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the April and May 2010 Trade Support Network monthly activity reports, which summarize the activity of all of the TSN Committees and Subcommittees for those months.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain biometric scanning devices, components thereof, associated software, and products containing the same, pursuant to a complaint.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain automotive vehicles and designs thereof, pursuant to a complaint.
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain portable electronic devices and related software, pursuant to a complaint.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted answers to questions that were submitted at its December 2009 Trade Symposium. Highlights of CBP’s answers to the questions it received include:
Ultimate Electronics denies Best Buy’s allegations that its “lowest prices” ad campaign is false and misleading, Ultimate said in a court filing responding to Best Buy’s April complaint. Best Buy’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., alleged Ultimate violated U.S. and Minnesota deceptive trade practices laws (CED April 21 p1). It sought an injunction forcing Ultimate to scrap the campaign. But Ultimate, “for its own business reasons,” stopped running the campaign before Best Buy sued, it said in its response. Ultimate twice asked the court for two-week deadline extensions to file the response, saying it hadn’t had time to hire lawyers in Minnesota. U.S. Magistrate Judge Janie Mayeron scheduled a July 20 pretrial conference in the case.
STANFORD, Calif. -- A government investigation of an online outlet’s reporting on the lost prototype for the new iPhone represents a frightening effort to start criminalizing some newsgathering, media and civil-liberties lawyers said. Apple escalated use of the legal system to stifle journalism, in this case against Gawker Media’s Gizmodo site, because the conventional civil remedy of injunction has proven ineffective in bottling up news in the Internet age, the lawyers said late Monday at the Innovation Journalism conference at Stanford University.