Crestron launched a campaign to “prevent” dealers from carrying rival Savant Systems’ home and commercial automation programmable controllers to “thwart competition,” Savant said in a suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, Boston.
An ITU-R study group will consider giving preliminary approval to two new recommendations and to revisions of six others in the terrestrial services when it meets in November, the Radiocommunication Bureau said in a letter. One new recommendation provides guidance on frequency arrangements for public protection and disaster relief radiocommunications in some regions at 806-869 MHz in the Americas, 380-470 MHz in some countries of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and 746-806 MHz in some Asia-Pacific countries. The other new recommendation provides the technical and operational characteristics of high altitude platform stations gateway links in the fixed service in the 5850-7075 MHz band. Countries at WRC-12 will consider whether to identify the frequencies for the systems. Other changes update the detailed specifications for the radio interfaces of International Mobile Telecommunications-2000. Approvals will go to administrations for consideration.
The International Trade Administration has issued a fact sheet announcing its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of certain coated paper suitable for high-quality print graphics using sheet-fed presses (certain coated paper) from Indonesia.
The International Trade Administration has issued a fact sheet announcing its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of certain coated paper suitable for high-quality print graphics using sheet-fed presses (certain coated paper) from China.
The Department of Energy is seeking public comment on a rulemaking proposal to develop a test procedure for TVs. The department in October repealed, at the behest of the CEA and the California Energy Commission, what was considered an outmoded test procedure it adopted in 1979. Separately, the DOE scheduled a public meeting in Washington Oct. 13 to discuss a preliminary technical report on energy conservation standards for battery chargers and non-class A external power supplies, it said.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is initiating investigations into the alleged injurious dumping and subsidizing of certain steel grating originating in or exported from China.The Canadian International Trade Tribunal's preliminary injury determination is due by November 19, 2010. CBSA's preliminary AD and CV rates are due by December 20, 2010.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews:
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative reviews:
Bipartisan Senate legislation to fight online piracy would give the Justice Department tools to track and shut down websites providing access to movies, music and other intellectual property in violation of copyright laws. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introduced the measure Monday. The bill was co-sponsored by Sens. Herb Kohl, D-Wis.; Arlen Specter, D-Pa.; Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.; Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and George Voinovich, R-Ohio. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act would allow DOJ to crack down faster on websites, authorize the department to file civil lawsuits against domain names and allow it to seek preliminary court orders declaring that they provide infringing material. Justice would have to publish notice of the actions immediately and “meet clear criteria that focus on the sites’ substantial and repeated role in online piracy or counterfeiting,” the Judiciary Committee said Monday. The bill would allow a domain-name owner or site operator to petition the court to lift the order. The bill would allow only the Justice Department to file an action and give federal courts the “final say about whether a particular site would be cut off from supportive services,” the committee said. “Each year, online piracy and the sale of counterfeit goods cost American businesses billions of dollars, and result in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs,” Leahy said. The bill “is critical to our continued fight against online piracy and counterfeiting,” Hatch said. “By coordinating our efforts with industry stakeholders and law enforcement officials, we'll be better able to target those who are profiting from illegal activity.” The MPAA supported the legislation, calling it “a major step forward in efforts to combat … a growing threat to the financial health and welfare of the men and women who work in our industry.” Viacom also applauded the bill’s introduction. Offshore pirating of intellectual property undermines millions of jobs in the film and television industries, threatening one of the most vital U.S. exports, it said. The bill gives the Department of Justice flexibility and authority to keep pace with intellectual property theft, it said, and is “an important first step” to curbing rampant piracy. Others voiced reservations. The Leahy bill has “some troubling political and technical implications, particularly as it attempts to extend U.S. control over the worldwide Internet addressing system,” said Public Knowledge Deputy Legal Director Sherwin Siy. “Domestically, we are concerned that the bill would establish an Internet black list of sites that the Justice Department thinks are ‘pirate’ sites but against which it hasn’t taken action,” Siy said. “We are also concerned about some of the vague definitions of what constitutes an infringing site and of the level of proof needed."
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China for the period of January 20, 2008, through July 31, 2009.