There was no violation of Section 337 of...
There was no violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act in the import of certain wireless consumer electronics devices and components, said an initial decision by a U.S. International Trade Commission administrative law judge. Judge Edward Gildea said in…
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the decision issued Friday that there was no violation by Acer, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Garmin Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., Kyocera Corp., LG Electronics, Nintendo of America, Novatel Wireless, Samsung Electronics, ZTE Corp. and others. All of the cases involved U.S. Patent No. 5,809,336, and Gildea found that a domestic industry exists that uses the patent. He gave no more reasoning (http://bit.ly/19ErleJ).