Certain models of HTC smartphones and tablets violate portions of two Nokia U.S. patents (Nos. 6,393,260 and 7,415,247), said International Trade Commission Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender in a partial notice of initial determination (here). A complete public version of the initial determination will be released “when all the parties have submitted their redactions and I have had an opportunity to review the redactions,” Pender said. In his notice, Pender found HTC not to have violated a third U.S. patent (5,884,190) held by Nokia and Intellisync, the supplier of data synchronization software for mobile devices that Nokia acquired in 2006. HTC representatives didn’t immediately comment.
The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) ordered Iman Kazerani to be denied export privileges for up to ten years following a Jan. 30 conviction that concluded Kazerani violated the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Kazerani was convicted of knowingly and willfully exporting and causing the exportation of laptop computers from the United States to Iran in violation of the embargo imposed upon that country by the U.S., without having first obtained the required licenses or authorizations from the Office of Foreign Assets Control, United States Department of the Treasury. Liu was also sentenced to three years probation, a $10,000 criminal fine and an assessment of $100 by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
A trade mission to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait of 13 U.S. companies on a cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection will be led Sept. 29-Oct. 2, by Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco Sánchez. Participating companies will meet with government decision makers and prospective private sector partners, the International Trade Administration said.
Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration said it received petitions for certification of eligibility to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance from the following firms:
The International Trade Commission decided on a 4-2 vote Sept. 20 that a U.S. industry is neither materially injured nor threatened by imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from China, Ecuador, India, Malaysia, and Vietnam that the U.S. Department of Commerce has determined are subsidized. Commissioners Daniel Pearson, Dean Pinkert, David Johanson, and Meredith Broadbent voted it wasn't threatened. Chairman Irving Williamson and Commissioner Shara Aranoff voted in it was, the ITC said.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Sept. 20:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board is establishing new FTZ 287 based on a request from Tunica County, Miss., the agency said in a notice set for publication in the Sept. 20 Federal Register. The zone will be organized under the Alternative Site Framework (ASF), which streamlines processes for designation of new FTZ subzones and usage driven sites within the service area. That service area will include Tunica County, adjacent to the Memphis CBP Port of Entry, the FTZB said.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Sept. 19:
The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board has applied to expand the area served by Foreign-Trade Zone 39, according to an FTZ Board notice set for publication in the Sept. 19 Federal Register. The zone currently has a service area that includes Dallas, Tarrant, Kaufman, Collin, Grayson and Denton Counties, Texas. Under the expansion, it would also cover Hunt County, Texas. If approved, the zone’s grantee would be able to serve sites throughout the expanded service area based on companies’ needs for FTZ designation, said the FTZB. Comments are due by Nov. 18.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Sept. 16: