On May 14, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 106 in Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets, Methods of Making Same and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-855). According to the Order, Complainants Hitachi Metals, Ltd. and Hitachi Metals North Carolina, Ltd. (“Hitachi”) and Respondents Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation and Techtronic Industries Company [...]

On May 9, 2013, ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued the public version of Order No. 97 (dated April 23, 2013) in Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets, Methods of Making Same, and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-855). According to the Order, Complainants Hitachi Metals, Ltd. and Hitachi Metals North Carolina, Ltd. (collectively, “Hitachi Metals”) moved [...]

On May 7, 2013, Chief ALJ Bullock issued Order No.102 and Order No. 103 in Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets, Methods of Making Same, and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-855). According to Order No. 102, Respondents Bose Corporation (“Bose”) and Bosch Security Systems, Inc. moved for summary determination of noninfringement of U.S. Patent No. [...]

On May 6, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 100 in Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets, Methods of Making Same and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-855). According to the Order, Complainants Hitachi Metals, Ltd. and Hitachi Metals North Carolina, Ltd. and Respondent Bose Corporation filed a joint motion to terminate the [...]

On May 7, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued a notice of Remand Determination (“RD”) in Certain Video Game Systems and Wireless Controllers and Components Thereof (Inv. No. 337-TA-770). By way of background, on August 31, 2012, ALJ Bullock issued an initial determination finding no violation of Section 337 by Respondents Nintendo of America, [...]

On April 16, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 95 in Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets, Methods of Making Same, and Products Containing Same (337-TA-855). In the Order, ALJ Bullock noted that his Ground Rule 3.1 requires all non-procedural motions to include a separate memorandum of points and authorities in support of [...]

On April 16, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued the public version of Order No. 90 (dated April 2, 2013) in Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets, Methods of Making Same, and Products Containing Same (337-TA-855). According to the Order, non-party Hitachi, Ltd. (“Hitachi”) filed a motion to quash or limit the subpoena duces tecum [...]

On April 23, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order Nos. 91 (dated April 4, 2013), 93 (dated April 9, 2013), and 94 (dated April 16, 2013) in Certain Sintered Rare Earth Magnets, Methods of Making Same, and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-855). According to Order No. 91, Complainants Hitachi Metals, Ltd. and [...]

On April 23, 2013, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued the public version of the Remand Initial Determination (the “Remand ID”) (dated March 26, 2013) finding no violation of section 337 in Certain Automated Media Library Devices (Inv. No. 337-TA-746). By way of background, the complainant in this matter is Overland Storage, Inc. (“Overland”) and [...]

On March 26, 2012, Chief ALJ Charles E. Bullock issued Order No. 27 denying Respondent T-Tech Tattoo Device, Inc.’s (“T-Tech”) motion for summary determination that claims 1 and 19 of U.S. Patent No. 6,505,530 are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 112 in Certain Ink Application Devices and Components Thereof and Methods of Using Same (Inv. [...]