Further to our March 28, 2011 post, on April 27, 2011, ALJ Gildea issued the public version of the Initial Determination (“ID”) in Certain Electronic Devices, Including Mobile Phones, Portable Music Players, and Computers (Inv. No. 337-TA-701). According to the ID, ALJ Gildea determined that no violation of Section 337 had occurred by Apple in [...]
Further to our January 11, 2011 post, on January 28, 2011 the International Trade Commission (the “Commission”) issued the public version of its opinion on Remedy, the Public Interest, and Bonding in Certain Inkjet Ink Supplies and Components Thereof (337-TA-691). By way of background, the Complainant in this investigation is Hewlett-Packard Co. (“HP”). Comptree Ink, [...]
On January 10, 2011, ALJ Carl C. Charneski released the Public Version of Order 29 (dated December 20, 2010), granting Respondents’ motion to amend their Responses to the Amended Complaint and Notice of Investigation to assert a defense of inequitable conduct in Certain Large Scale Integrated Circuit Semiconductor Chips and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. [...]
On December 3, 2010, Louis Vuitton Malletier S.A. of France and Louis Vuitton U.S. Manufacturing, Inc. of San Dimas, California (collectively, “Louis Vuitton”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to Section 337. The complaint alleges that a host of proposed respondents from Guangzhou China, Texas and California – T&T Hanbag [...]
On August 13, 2010, ALJ Carl C. Charneski issued the public version (dated July 16, 2010) of the Initial Determination (“ID”) in Certain Machine Vision Software, Machine Vision Systems, and Products Containing the Same (337-TA-680). By way of background, the Complainants in this matter are Cognex Corporation and Cognex Technology & Investment Corporation (“Cognex”). The [...]
On July 9, 2010, ALJ Carl C. Charneski issued the public version of Order No. 10 disqualifying Adduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg, LLP (“AMS”) as counsel for Complainants Apple Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc. (“Apple”) in Certain Personal Data and Mobile Communications Devices and Related Software (Inv. No. 337-TA-710). Respondents Nokia Corporation and Nokia, Inc. (“Nokia”) [...]
On June 28, 2010, Canon Inc., Canon U.S.A., Inc. and Canon Virginia, Inc. (collectively, “Canon”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to Section 337. Canon alleges infringement of certain claims of two of its U.S. patents, 5,903,803 and 6,128,454 which both relate to a projection on photosensitive toner cartridge drums [...]
On April 26, 2010, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued the public version of his 132 page Initial Determination (“ID”) (dated January 22, 2010) in Certain Semiconductor Chips Having Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory Controllers and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-661). Complainant Rambus, Inc. (“Rambus”) accused Respondents NVIDIA Corporation, Asustek Computer, Inc., ASUS Computer International, Inc., [...]
On March 1, 2010, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (“Freescale”) filed a complaint requesting that the ITC commence an investigation pursuant to Section 337. The complaint alleges that the following proposed respondents unlawfully import into the U.S., sell for importation, and/or sell within the U.S. after importation certain integrated circuits, chipsets, and products including same that allegedly [...]
The Federal Circuit will conduct an en banc hearing on March 3, 2010 in Princo Corp. v. Int’l Trade Comm’n, (2007-1386). As detailed in our April 21, 2009 post, in the original decision, the panel remanded the case back to the International Trade Commission to consider one of Princo’s patent misuse defenses. By way of [...]
