The International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking in part the antidumping (AD) duty order on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Canada and Germany with respect to certain wear plate product.
GENEVA -- ITU-T members established an IPTV focus group Wed., with the aim of coordinating a broad range of standards development work into a global standard, officials said. Standards bodies from the existing TV and video markets are creating standards for IPTV, but are focusing on -- and coming from -- their industry perspectives, officials said. What hasn’t been identified is a coordinated framework that says this is how IPTV works, this is the boundary of IPTV and these are the ways IPTV can be coordinated and managed as a service, they said.
Fax “store and forward” technologies are the subject of a patent infringement suit by IP development and licensing firm Catch Curve against French firm Esker in U.S. Dist. Court, Atlanta. The plaintiff said Esker violated Catch Curve’s AudioFax patents, which cover fax-to-e-mail, fax broadcasting, fax-on-demand and “real time” fax over the Internet. Catch Curve wants monetary damages for past infringement and preliminary and permanent injunctions. Esker, which has a U.S. subsidiary, sued Catch Curve days before in U.S. Dist. Court, Madison, Wis., after licensing talks broke down; Catch Curve portrayed its suit as a defensive measure. More than 1/3 of Esker fiscal year 2004 sales involve products and services related to the AudioFax patents, and more than half of Esker’s sales were in the U.S., Catch Curve said. Its patents have been licensed to companies such as AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Cisco, NEC, Send2Fax and Siemens, it said.
Network-based 3D imaging software firm Skyline praised a court decision to expedite discovery and a trial schedule in the firm’s patent infringement case concerning Google Earth. The U.S. Dist. Court, Boston hasn’t ruled on Skyline’s request for a preliminary injunction, but Skyline said the move was a “strong indication that the court views the claims of patent infringement as having real substance.” Skyline filed the suit in 2004 against Keyhole, since acquired by Google to create the satellite mapping application.
Blockbuster declined comment Wed. on a Netflix suit accusing its rival of violating basic patents on the online ordering and delivery of DVDs. A Blockbuster spokesman said his company hasn’t had an opportunity to review the suit, which Netflix filed Tues. in U.S. Dist. Court, San Francisco.
The PS2 version of The Godfather from Electronic Arts, in its 2nd week available, was again the #1-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended April 2. The Xbox version was again #2. The only new game in the top 10 was Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts II for PS2 at #7.
GENEVA -- ITU-T members established an IPTV focus group Wed., with the aim of coordinating a broad range of standards development work into a global standard, officials said. Standards bodies from the existing TV and video markets are creating standards for IPTV, but are focusing on -- and coming from -- their industry perspectives, officials said. What hasn’t been identified is a coordinated framework that says this is how IPTV works, this is the boundary of IPTV and these are the ways IPTV can be coordinated and managed as a service, they said.
Fax “store and forward” technologies are the subject of a patent infringement suit by IP development and licensing firm Catch Curve against French firm Esker in U.S. Dist. Court, Atlanta. The plaintiff said Esker violated Catch Curve’s AudioFax patents, which cover fax-to-e-mail, fax broadcasting, fax-on-demand and “real time” fax over the Internet. Catch Curve wants monetary damages for past infringement and preliminary and permanent injunctions. Esker, which has a U.S. subsidiary, sued Catch Curve days before in U.S. Dist. Court, Madison, Wis., after licensing talks broke down; Catch Curve portrayed its suit as a defensive measure. More than 1/3 of Esker fiscal year 2004 sales involve products and services related to the AudioFax patents, and more than half of Esker’s sales were in the U.S., Catch Curve said. Its patents have been licensed to companies such as AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Cisco, NEC, Send2Fax and Siemens, it said.
Blockbuster declined comment Wed. on a Netflix suit accusing its rival of violating basic patents on the online ordering and delivery of DVDs. A Blockbuster spokesman said his company hasn’t had an opportunity to review the suit, which Netflix filed Tues. in U.S. Dist. Court, San Francisco.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty investigation of certain activated carbon from China, in order to determine whether imports of subject merchandise are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.