Publisher Bethesda Softworks is “confident” it “will prevail on our claims” against Interplay Entertainment, Pete Hines, Bethesda vice president of PR and marketing, told us Tuesday, four days after a Maryland U.S. District Court judge denied Bethesda’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Interplay. A reason for Judge Deborah Chasanow’s denial wasn’t stated in the order filed Friday. Bethesda was trying to stop Interplay from selling the games Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics and Fallout Brotherhood of Steel, and prevent Interplay from creating a Fallout massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) before a trial and final determination in a suit filed by Bethesda against Interplay in September. The trial is expected to start in 2010.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of pure magnesium from China for the period of May 1, 2007 through April 30, 2008.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of chlorinated isocyanurates from China for the period of June 1, 2007 through May 31, 2008.
CE makers’ request for a preliminary injunction to block New York City’s e-waste law from taking effect got a significant boost Friday when the union for the city’s 6,200 sanitation workers filed a supporting amicus brief in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The Office of Textiles and Apparel has posted to its website monthly reports containing official October 2009 trade data from the Census Department for U.S. imports and exports of textiles and apparel.
Antitrust review of Comcast’s purchase of a controlling stake in NBC Universal probably will center on defining the market for the combined company’s broadcast and cable programming, said a wide range of industry lawyers and officials we interviewed. Whichever agency gets the matter, the Federal Trade Commission or the Justice Department, probably will look at the merged company’s TV stations, NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks and cable channels, they predicted.
The International Trade Administration has issued a preliminary affirmative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from China.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of polyethylene retail carrier bags from Thailand for the period of August 1, 2007 through July 31, 2008.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.
Antitrust review of Comcast’s purchase of a controlling stake in NBC Universal probably will center on defining the market for the combined company’s broadcast and cable programming, said a wide range of industry lawyers and officials we interviewed. Whichever agency gets the matter, the Federal Trade Commission or the Justice Department, probably will look at the merged company’s TV stations, NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks and cable channels, they predicted.