The International Trade Commission seeks comments by July 22 on a recent Section 337 complaint filed by MimirIP alleging imports of NAND devices from Micron and electronic devices from several of its downstream customers are infringing its patents. In its July 8 complaint, MimirIP said Micron is manufacturing NAND memory devices that copy its patented manufacturing methods and chip structure, which are in turn incorporated into consumer electronics from Acer, HP, Kingston and Lenovo. MimirIP seeks a limited exclusion order and cease and desist order banning the import and sale of infringing products from all five accused companies.

The International Trade Commission recently began a Section 337 investigation into allegations from MimirIP that imports from several companies are infringing on its patents on memory devices, it said in a notice last week. In its June complaint (see 2406070045, MimirIP said Micron, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Kingston, Lenovo and Tesla are importing DRAM and NAND computer memory or products that contain them, including laptops, tablets, servers, solid-state drives and self-driving automotive computers and automotive media control units. In the investigation, the ITC will consider a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against the six companies banning importation and sale of infringing merchandise.

The Commerce Department on July 12 released a proposed rule updating various aspects of its antidumping and countervailing duty regulations. The agency said the changes largely "codify existing procedures and methodologies" and also "create or revise" provisions related to the "collection of cash deposits," use of AD rates on nonmarket economy nations, calculation of an all-others' rate, respondent selection and "attribution of subsidies received by cross-owned input producers and utility providers to producers of subject merchandise."

The Commerce Department is finalizing antidumping duties on importers of certain hydrofluorocarbon blends from Turkey and China. The agency found in its final determinations in a trio of anti-circumvention inquiries that imports of the blends from Turkey and China are circumventing the AD order on hydrofluorocarbon blends from China (A-570-028).

The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on low-speed personal transportation vehicles from China (A-570-176/C-570-177). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2023. The AD investigation covers entries Oct. 1, 2023 - March 31, 2024.

The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 15 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 15 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 12 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 12 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from the United Arab Emirates (A-520-807). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Dec. 1, 2021, through Nov. 30, 2022.