On July 29, 2009, the International Trade Commission issued the public version of its Opinion in Certain Semiconductor Chips With Minimized Chip Package Size and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-605) denying a motion to stay enforcement of a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders pending appeal of the Commission’s final determination of [...]

On July 28, 2009, Hexagon Metrology AB of Sweden and Hexagon Metrology, Inc. of North Kingstown, Rhode Island (collectively, “Hexagon”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to section 337.
The complaint alleges that the following proposed respondents (collectively, “Respondents”) unlawfully import into the U.S., sell for importation, and sell within the [...]

On July 27, 2009, Chief ALJ Paul J. Luckern issued the heavily redacted public version of Order No. 42 (dated March 10, 2009) granting Complainants InterDigital Communications, LLC and InterDigital Technology Corp.’s (“InterDigital”) motion for summary determination that InterDigital’s U.S. licensing activities satisfy the domestic industry requirements of 19 U.S.C. § 1337(a)(3)(C) in Certain 3G [...]

On July 28, 2009, the International Trade Commission issued a Notice denying Respondents Vizio, Inc., AmTran Technology Co., Ltd., TPV Technology, Ltd., TPV International (USA), Inc., Top Victory Electronics (Taiwan) Co., Ltd., and Envision Peripherals, Inc.’s (collectively, “Respondents”) joint motion to stay enforcement of a limited exclusion order (“LEO”) and cease and desist orders (“C&D [...]

On July 28, 2009, Chief ALJ Paul J. Luckern issued Order No. 8 in Certain Energy Drink Products (Inv. No. 337-TA-678).  In the Order, ALJ Luckern granted complainants Red Bull GmbH and Red Bull North America, Inc.’s (collectively, “Red Bull”)  motion to modify the protective order (Order No. 2) to address the inadvertent disclosure of [...]

On July 28, 2009, Chief ALJ Paul J. Luckern issued a Notice assigning the remanded investigation in Certain High-Brightness Light Emitting Diodes and Products Containing Same (337-TA-556) to ALJ Robert K. Rogers, Jr.  See our May 26 and July 28 posts for more information.

On July 27, 2009, BTG International Inc. (“BTG”) of West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to section 337.
The complaint alleges that the following proposed respondents (collectively, “Respondents”) unlawfully import into the U.S., sell for importation, and sell within the U.S. after importation certain MLC flash memory chips [...]

On July 27, 2009, ALJ Carl C. Charneski issued the public version of Order No. 23 (dated April 24, 2009) in Certain Cast Steel Railway Wheels, Certain Processes For Manufacturing Or Relating To Same And Certain Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-655).  In the Order, ALJ Charneski denied Respondents Standard Car Truck, Inc., Barber Tianrui [...]

On July 27, 2009, ALJ Carl C. Charneski issued the public version of Order No. 14 (dated February 27, 2009) in Certain Cast Steel Railway Wheels, Certain Processes For Manufacturing Or Relating To Same And Certain Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-655).  In the Order, ALJ Charneski denied Respondent Tianrui Group Foundry Limited’s (“Tianrui Foundry”) [...]

On July 27, 2009, the Commission issued an order in which it remanded the investigation to Chief ALJ Paul J. Luckern in Certain High-Brightness Light Emitting Diodes and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-556).  The Complainant is Lumileds Lighting U.S., LLC and the named Respondents are Epistar Corporation and United Epitaxy Co. of Hsinchu, Taiwan [...]