The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 17 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 International Trade Commission seeks comments by July 26 on a potential Section 337 investigation on allegations that imports of network equipment that supports Bit Indexed Explicit Replication (BIER) standards infringe on patents held by Optimum Communications Services, the ITC said in a notice released July 17. In a complaint filed July 12, Optimum said four companies in China -- Beijing Tongruida Information Technology Co., Ltd., Ella Optoelectronic Technology Hebei Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou Qiongzhi Ceyu Network Technology Co., Ltd., and Beijing Morriss Technology Co., Ltd. – are copying its patented technology related to multicast networking capabilities per the BIER standard technique. Optimum seeks a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against Tongruida, Ella, Qiongzhi and Morriss.
The International Trade Commission is beginning a Section 337 investigation on allegations that imports of hydrodermabrasion systems (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1408) from Cartessa Aesthetics and Eunsung Global are infringing on patents held by HydraFacial, it said in a notice July 17. In a complaint filed in June (see 2406130048), HydraFacial said Cartessa’s Skinwave system and Eunsung’s Hydracare H2 and Hydra Touch H2 systems copy the patented technologies used in HydraFacial’s Syndeo system. In the investigation, the ITC will consider whether to issue a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders banning the import and sale of infringing merchandise from Cartessa and Eunsung.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on brake drums from China and Turkey (A-570-174/C-570-175, A-489-853/C-489-854). The CVD investigations cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigation on Turkey covers entries April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024, and the AD investigation on China covers entries Oct. 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 16 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 issued a Federal Register notice on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigation on large top mount combination refrigerator-freezers from Thailand (A-549-853). The agency will determine whether imports of Thai refrigrator-freezers are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The investigation covers entries from Thailand during the period April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.
A U.S. producer seeks the imposition of new antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of tungsten shot from China, it said in petitions filed July 9 with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders on tungsten shot.
The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on mattresses from Bosnia and Herzegovina (A-893-002), Bulgaria (A-487-001), Myanmar (formerly Burma) (A-546-001), Italy (A-475-845), the Philippines (A-565-804), Poland (A-455-807), Slovenia (A-856-002) and Taiwan (A-583-873). The orders detail a “gap period” of June 29 - July 4, 2024, of no AD duty liability.
The International Trade Commission will consider a general exclusion order banning all imports of eye cosmetics and related packaging that Amarte USA says infringe on its trademarks, the ITC said in a notice July 16 launching a Section 337 investigation. In a complaint filed in May (see 2405290041), Amarte said several companies are selling eye creams, eye palettes, eye patches, eye serums and eyelashes that use identical or similar names to its trademarked Eyeconic brand. The ITC will also consider cease and desist orders against the following respondents to its investigation:
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.