The International Trade Administration has initiated antidumping duty investigations to determine whether imports of narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from China and Taiwan are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office preliminarily rejected two claims in what’s called TiVo’s time-warp patent at the heart of its legal battle with EchoStar, TiVo said Tuesday. The patent office turned aside claims relating to a device that could simultaneously store and playback multimedia content temporarily taken from a broadcast signal. The patent, granted into 2001 to TiVo founder James Barton, is central to a long-running TiVo-EchoStar lawsuit that’s in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CED July 6 p1). The court in July granted EchoStar’s request to stay a June contempt order by U.S. District Judge Charles Folsom in Texarkana, Texas (CED June 4 p2). The patent office’s recent finding was “entered in the normal course” before TiVo could “present its views,” the company said. The finding won’t affect EchoStar’s appeal of Folsom’s June ruling, TiVo said. The decision is an “initial step” in reexamining the patent, TiVo said. It isn’t unusual for the patent office to reverse a preliminary finding of invalidity after hearing the patent owner’s explanation, TiVo said. EchoStar countered in a statement that the patent office’s “conclusions are highly relevant to the issues on appeal as well as pending sanctions proceedings” in the district court. EchoStar said it’s “pleased” that the patent office found the two claims invalid in light of two older patents.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative reviews:
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of an antidumping duty changed circumstances review of certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office preliminarily rejected two claims in what’s called TiVo’s time-warp patent at the heart of its legal battle with EchoStar, TiVo said Tuesday. The patent office turned aside claims relating to a device that could simultaneously store and playback multimedia content temporarily taken from a broadcast signal. The patent, granted into 2001 to TiVo founder James Barton, is central to a long-running TiVo- EchoStar lawsuit that’s in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The court in July granted EchoStar’s request to stay a June contempt order by U.S. District Judge Charles Folsom in Texarkana, Texas. The patent office’s recent finding was “entered in the normal course” before TiVo could “present its views,” the company said. The finding won’t affect EchoStar’s appeal of Folsom’s June ruling, TiVo said. The decision is an “initial step” in reexamining the patent, TiVo said. It isn’t unusual for the patent office to reverse a preliminary finding of invalidity after hearing the patent owner’s explanation, TiVo said. EchoStar countered in a statement that the patent office’s “conclusions are highly relevant to the issues on appeal as well as pending sanctions proceedings” in the district court. EchoStar said it’s “pleased” that the patent office found the two claims invalid in light of two older patents.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews:
U.S. District Judge William Pauley gave CEA and the ITI Council until Friday to file their motion for a preliminary injunction in their lawsuit against New York City and its e- waste law (CED July 28 p2). CEA and ITI sued July 24, seeking to block the city’s Department of Sanitation from implementing its July 31 deadline when manufacturers were required to begin filing e-waste collection plans or risk $1,000-a-day fines. DSNY has agreed to “stay all requirements of the e-waste program during briefing and resolution of plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction,” Pauley said in an order released Friday. Should the court deny the CEA-ITI motion, DSNY has agreed to give manufacturers 30 days to file the required collection plans. Pauley gave the city until Sept. 9 to file opposition papers to the CEA-ITI motion, and CEA and ITI have until Sept. 30 to respond, his order said.
The shift to next-generation networks will happen with a whimper, not a bang, the U.K. Office of Communications said. When details began to emerge in 2004 about British Telecom’s plan to build a fiber network called 21CN, advanced networks “were seen as perhaps the most important development in telecoms since privatisation” and as requiring a new regulatory approach, Ofcom said. Since then, though, it has become clear that the shift to next-generation networks won’t happen all at once but through wider evolution of network technologies, it said. Next-gen technology is being adopted alongside fixed and mobile access network upgrades, and with important developments are taking placing outside telecom, particularly in information technology, it said.
The shift to next-generation networks will happen with a whimper, not a bang, the U.K. Office of Communications said. When details began to emerge in 2004 about British Telecom’s plan to build a fiber network called 21CN, advanced networks “were seen as perhaps the most important development in telecoms since privatisation” and as requiring a new regulatory approach, Ofcom said. Since then, though, it has become clear that the shift to next-generation networks won’t happen all at once but through wider evolution of network technologies, it said. Next-gen technology is being adopted alongside fixed and mobile access network upgrades, and with important developments are taking placing outside telecom, particularly in information technology, it said.
The shift to next-generation networks will happen with a whimper, not a bang, the U.K. Office of Communications said. When details began to emerge in 2004 about British Telecom’s plan to build a fiber network called 21CN, advanced networks “were seen as perhaps the most important development in telecoms since privatisation” and as requiring a new regulatory approach, Ofcom said. Since then, though, it has become clear that the shift to next-generation networks won’t happen all at once but through wider evolution of network technologies, it said. Next-gen technology is being adopted alongside fixed and mobile access network upgrades, and with important developments are taking placing outside telecom, particularly in information technology, it said.