The International Trade Commission has issued its report entitled Use of the "First Sale Rule" for Customs Valuation of U.S. Imports.
The International Trade Administration has initiated administrative reviews of the antidumping 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 silicon microphone packages and products pursuant to a complaint.
Six consumer products trade groups from outside the CE industry support the CEA and ITI Council motion for a preliminary injunction blocking the New York City e-waste program from taking effect, they said in an amicus brief filed Monday at the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Facebook’s new privacy settings constitute unfair and deceptive acts and practices that go against what the company has previously promised users regarding control over what information to share, 10 privacy groups said in a complaint filed Thursday with the FTC. The complaint, led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, asks the commission to require Facebook to restore the previous privacy settings that allowed users to control whether to disclose their hometowns and friends and to “fully opt out” of giving information to third-party developers. It also wants Facebook “to make its data collection practices clearer and more comprehensible and to give Facebook users meaningful control over personal information provided by Facebook to advertisers and developers."
CBP has posted a document that provides summaries of proposed and final revocations and modifications that were published on December 10, 2009 in the CBP Bulletin. (Bulletin, posted 12/10/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/legal/bulletins_decisions/bulletins_2009/vol43_12102009_no50/summary_12102009.ctt/summary_12102009.pdf)
The International Trade Commission has instituted a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain multimedia display and navigation devices and systems, components thereof, and products containing same pursuant to a complaint.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation will argue Friday against a subpoena seeking the identity of an anonymous Internet poster, it said. The U.S. District Court in San Francisco set a hearing in USA Technologies vs. Stokklerk, in which the technology company is seeking the identity of a Yahoo customer using the nickname “Stokklerk” who posted comments on a Yahoo message board criticizing the company and its CEO for falling stock prices, high executive pay and lack of profitability. Another commenter had similar complaints. The company filed suit in Pennsylvania alleging the statements violated federal securities regulations and issued a subpoena through the California court. EFF said the First Amendment protects people’s right to speak anonymously, particularly about matters of public concern like the performance of publicly traded companies. In a filing opposing Stokklerk’s motion to quash the subpoena, USA Technologies said the First Amendment doesn’t grant the right to make defamatory comments and hide behind anonymity. Stokklerk’s comments aren’t valid criticism but are attempts to damage the company’s reputation and lower its stock price, the company said. “This is not a case where revealing an anonymous poster’s identity could cause embarrassment or lead to the disclosure of highly sensitive information. Nor is this a case of a regrettable statement made in the heat of the moment. Rather, Stokklerk has engaged in a deliberate, systematic and ongoing effort to defame USAT,” the company said. It said that by accusing the company of running a Ponzi scheme, Stokklerk has given the company a valid defamation complaint.
The copyright industries already have many of the tools they need to reduce infringement over the Internet, the Information Technology Innovation Foundation said in a report. What’s missing is crucial regulatory and legislative encouragement toward intermediaries such as Internet service providers and online advertising networks, and some good old-fashioned political horse trading, researchers and executives told a foundation event in Washington Tuesday. Foundation President Robert Atkinson said the White House roundtable on intellectual property enforcement scheduled for the afternoon may presage a more active role for the Obama administration than that of President George W. Bush. (See separate report in this issue.)
Lawmakers are more eager than federal officials to target individual file-swappers in the U.S. for copyright infringement, judging by the back-and-forth at a House Oversight Government Management Subcommittee hearing on intellectual property enforcement Wednesday. They quibbled over the balance between pursuing operators of illicit-content networks, which often requires the cooperation of foreign governments, and Internet users downloading from them, who can be spooked by a warning letter from their ISP. Officials defended the opportunities for reduction in piracy and counterfeiting from some of the worst IP offenders in the U.S. government’s view, such as China. But lawmakers seemed unimpressed with other countries’ efforts.