The International Trade Commission announces that a section 337 patent-based complaint has been filed regarding certain gemcitabine and products containing same.
The Justice Department has announced that Karen Blyth and David Phelps, co-owners of Consolidated Seafood Enterprises Inc. of Arizona and Reel Fish and Seafood Inc. of Florida, pleaded guilty on January 24, 2011 to violating the Lacey Act by purchasing and selling certain falsely labeled catfish and perch in order to avoid certain anti-dumping duties; selling farm-raised shrimp falsely labeled as wild caught; buying fish they knew had been illegally imported into the U.S. etc. Their sentencing is set for May 4, 2011.
MetroPCS will file a legal challenge to the FCC’s Dec. 21 net neutrality order in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the carrier said. The lawsuit is patterned on Verizon’s challenge filed last week in the same court. The company filed a notice of appeal through its law firm Paul, Hastings.
MetroPCS will file a legal challenge to the FCC’s Dec. 21 net neutrality order in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the carrier said. The lawsuit is patterned on Verizon’s challenge filed last week in the same court (CD Jan 21 p1). The company filed a notice of appeal through its law firm Paul, Hastings.
STANFORD, Calif. -- Civil libertarians go into Data Privacy Day, Friday, cheered by a string of recent victories in intermediate federal appeals courts concerning electronic communications, said two prominent legal activists. Last month, a “really important” ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati recognized for the first time a reasonable expectation of privacy in stored e-mail, said Professor Susan Freiwald of the University of San Francisco’s law school.
STANFORD, Calif. -- Civil libertarians go into Data Privacy Day, Friday, cheered by a string of recent victories in intermediate federal appeals courts concerning electronic communications, said two prominent legal activists. Last month, a “really important” ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati recognized for the first time a reasonable expectation of privacy in stored e-mail, said Professor Susan Freiwald of the University of San Francisco’s law school.
Cloud music services will provide a turnaround for digital music distribution, which is still too much of a niche market, said music industry executives at the Midem conference in Cannes, France. Several cloud music services were announced during Midem, including Sony’s “Unlimited Music” which is supported by the streaming service Qriocity. But the debate over fair licensing deals for online services and the call of the industry to governments for help to protect their business models against piracy continues.
Democratic Commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn have no regrets about supporting a compromise net neutrality order last month, the commissioners told us after a Minority Media and Telecommunications Council panel Friday morning. Copps acknowledged that he was “worried” that Verizon would prevail in its appeal of last month’s order, “and I said so at the time,” but said “our case is stronger” than the one the FCC took to court that led to last year’s Comcast decision. Verizon announced it would challenge the net neutrality order in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (CD Jan 21 p1).
Understanding the economics of broadcaster/pay-TV deals raises several questions -- not all of which may be readily answerable -- but the industries can help inform the FCC as it looks to start a rulemaking on retransmission consent deals, the commission’s top economist said Friday. “This is an interesting economic question” about the benefits of such deals to TV stations, subscription-video providers and their consumers, Jonathan Baker told a Technology Policy Institute event on Capitol Hill. Retrans deals aren’t a “lump-sum transfer” of money since the payments are made on a per-subscriber basis, Baker noted.
Democratic Commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn have no regrets about supporting a compromise net neutrality order last month, the commissioners told us after a Minority Media and Telecommunications Council panel Friday morning. Copps acknowledged that he was “worried” that Verizon would prevail in its appeal of last month’s order, “and I said so at the time,” but said “our case is stronger” than the one the FCC took to court that led to last year’s Comcast decision. Verizon announced it would challenge the net neutrality order in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.