The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a final rule, effective June 28, 2010, which establishes requirements for domestic manufacturers and importers of durable infant and toddler products to enable consumers of these products to register and be notified directly if the product is the subject of a recall or safety alert.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a final rule, effective June 28, 2010, which establishes domestic manufacturer/importer requirements so that consumers can register durable infant and toddler products and be notified directly if the product is the subject of a recall or safety alert.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a notice announcing that it is extending the comment period on its advance notice of proposed rulemaking regarding whether the risks of injury and death associated with Recreational Off-Highway Vehicles (ROVs) are unreasonable and necessitate a rulemaking.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a notice announcing a two day staff-conducted public workshop to receive views from all interested parties on establishing a public consumer product safety incident database.
A House Subcommittee1 held a hearing titled "Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in a Global Economy: Current Trends and Future Challenges" on December 9, 2009.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a final rule, effective January 14, 2010, which establishes requirements for the import into the U.S. of certain hides and skins from regions with African swine fever (ASF) and from Mexico, and bird trophies from regions with exotic Newcastle disease (END).
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a notice of inquiry requesting comments by February 16, 2009 on a rulemaking to require tracking labels for drywall1.
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.
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.
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.