The MPAA is extending to hardware its crackdown on products it says violate DVD technology licenses. The MPAA sued Sigma Designs and MediaTek in Cal. Superior Court, L.A., alleging the companies sold DVD player chips to companies who products have features not allowed under the general DVD technology license.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of the AD duty order on extruded rubber thread from Malaysia. As a result, the ITA is revoking this AD duty order effective October 1, 2003.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative reviews for the following periods:
The FCC’s new Wireline Bureau Chief Jeffrey Carlisle said the agency ought to deal with state vs. federal jurisdiction over VoIP before tackling other issues in the FCC’s broad IP Enabled Services proceeding. “I don’t know if we can get a comprehensive order done by the end of the year because the record’s so huge and there are so many issues,” Carlisle said in an interview with Communications Daily. “I do believe we should try to decide the jurisdiction issue by the end of the year.”
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative reviews for the period July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a preliminary negative countervailing (CV) duty determination on live swine from Canada finding that countervailable subsidies are not being provided to producers or exporters of live swine from Canada.
(a) For previously reviewed or investigated companies not listed above, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recent period.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative and new shipper reviews:
Spider-Man 2’s 7 weeks of dominance on Rentrak’s top 10 videogame rental chart came to an end as Electronic Arts (EA) scored a predictable touchdown with Madden NFL 2005 in its first week. Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Aug. 15 showed that the PS2 version of Madden was the #1-rented title in the U.S., earning $558,052. The PS2 version of Activision’s Spider-Man 2 dropped to #2, earning an additional $440,963 for $4.59 million to date. The Xbox version of Madden was #4 ($277,521) and EA had 2 other PS2 games in the top 10: NCAA Football 2005 at #5 (down 3 in its 5th week, $240,333 and $1.95 million) and Need for Speed Underground at #8 (down one, 39th week, $137,443 and $9.99 million). The Xbox version of Spider-Man 2 dropped 3 to #7 ($189,013 and $2.21 million). Atari and Take-Two Interactive’s Rockstar Games also each had 2 top 10 SKUs. Atari’s were the PS2 version of DRIV3R at #3 again in its 8th week ($282,860 and $3.57 million) and the Xbox version at #9 (down 3, $136,666 and $1.91 million). Take-Two’s were the PS2 version of Red Dead Revolver at #6 (down one in its 15th week, $198,013 and $3.91 million) and the Xbox version at #10 (down one, $100,106 and $2.21 million). Separately, the NPD Group said NCAA Football 2005 for PS2 was the top-selling videogame of July in the U.S., followed by ESPN NFL 2K5 for PS2 from Sega and Take-Two Interactive at #2, Spider-Man 2 for PS2 at #3, the Xbox version of ESPN at #4 and the Xbox version of NCAA at #5. Six games in the top 10 were for PS2 and 6 for Game Boy Advance vs. 5 for Xbox and 3 for GameCube. Four titles were from Activision, while Atari, EA and Nintendo each had 3.