The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted the remarks of Chairman Tenenbaum from the October 2010 trilateral product safety summit held in China that involved U.S., European Union, and Chinese regulators.
The U.S. Trade Representative “should stop its transformation into a law enforcement agency,” Public Knowledge said in a filing to the office. The public interest group said its comments respond to plans by the agency to publish a list of notorious markets in its intellectual property report. “If the list is intended as a preliminary step to further legal action, the USTR must first acknowledge this.” Then it must “clearly articulate exactly what the foreign company is accused of.” The agency also should state whether it believes that violators “are direct or secondary infringers, and it should cite the statutes these companies run afoul of,” PK said. It can be appropriate for the U.S. government to negotiate with other countries to get them to acknowledge American intellectual property rights, the filing said. But the government should “bear in mind the need for a balanced system that does not merely grant rents to certain industries to the detriment of others."
Dish Network remains uncertain of how it will use its large holdings of 700 MHz spectrum, Dish CEO Charlie Ergen said Friday during the company’s Q3 conference call. Dish paid about $712 million for 168 E-block spectrum licenses in 2008, covering most of the U.S.
Dish Network remains uncertain of how it will use its large holdings of 700 MHz spectrum, Dish CEO Charlie Ergen said Friday during the company’s Q3 conference call. Dish paid about $712 million for 168 E-block spectrum licenses in 2008, covering most of the U.S. The company also recently encouraged the FCC to update spectrum bidding rules before the next auction, a possible indicator it’s considering bidding on more 700 MHz spectrum (CD Aug 27 p8). Some believe Dish plans to use the spectrum for mobile video, though Ergen raised the possibility of a sale of the spectrum somewhere down the road. Dish’s revenue grew 10.9 percent to $3.2 billion compared to Q3 last year. Net income more than tripled from the previous year to $245 million. The revenue and income gains came despite the fact that the company lost 29,000 net subscribers in the quarter.
On the margins of President Obama’s trip to India, he announced and showcased twenty trade transactions exceeding $14.9 billion in total value with $9.5 billion in U.S. export content, supporting an estimated 53,670 U.S. jobs.
An overview of a number of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
On November 3, 2010, the Federal Highway Administration released its new version of Freight Analysis Framework, which it states is the most comprehensive, publicly available data set of freight movement.
A GOP wave claimed longtime telecom heavyweight Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., and other Democrats in rural states, as Republicans seized control of the House Tuesday. The Republicans also won seats in the Senate, but the Democrats maintained power there. The GOP gain is seen as bad news for net neutrality supporters, while the loss of House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Boucher is a setback for rural telcos who supported his efforts to overhaul the Universal Service Fund.
Losing won’t keep former high-tech executives from continuing to seek high public office, experts said. They said the defeats Tuesday in California of Republican nominees and former CEOs Meg Whitman from eBay for governor and Carly Fiorina from Hewlett-Packard for U.S. Senate won’t deter others. Both personal and industry reasons were cited.
Losing won’t keep former high-tech executives from continuing to seek high public office, experts said. They said the defeats Tuesday in California of Republican nominees Meg Whitman from eBay for governor and Carly Fiorina for U.S. Senate won’t deter others. Both personal and industry reasons were cited.