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UK signs up to international anti-spam agreement
News The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) have joined forces with the US Federal Trade Commission, the UK Department of Trade and Industry, the UK Information Commissioner and the...
[July 5, 2004, 10:40]
Drive doldrums cost jobs
News Seagate last Friday said that it has also filed a patent infringement complaint against Cornice with the US International Trade Commission. Seagate said it is seeking "an order from the US International Trade Commission to exclude Cornice disc...
[July 5, 2004, 11:05]
Microsoft must pay $1.5bn in MP3 patent case
News Microsoft has also countersued in the case, and there have been additional actions in other legal venues, including an International Trade Commission case filed this week. We will continue to defend our customers against unfounded claims and are...
[February 23, 2007, 7:52]
Qualcomm 3G phone ban to take effect
News President Bush's administration said on Monday that it would not veto a decision handed down in June by the International Trade Commission that would prohibit the import of mobile phones using the chips that infringe on Broadcom patents.
[August 7, 2007, 10:52]
Qualcomm vs Nokia: Seconds out, round three
News The ongoing legal brawl between chipmaker Qualcomm and phone maker Nokia has been cranked up one more notch, as Qualcomm revealed on Monday it has lodged a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC).
[June 13, 2006, 11:25]
EU seeks overhaul of global IT trade pact
News The European Commission has proposed a revision of the Information Technology Agreement, a trade pact that for the past decade has helped keep down prices for IT-related goods across the world. The pact involved the elimination of international...
[September 16, 2008, 17:27]
SanDisk to sue STMicroelectronics for patent infringement
News SanDisk, the leader in flash memory cards, said Monday it has asked the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to investigate whether STMicroelectronics' NAND flash memory chips violate its patent. SanDisk has filed a patent infringement lawsuit...
[October 18, 2004, 16:45]
FTC cracks international Web porn ring
News The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday it has won a federal injunction against an international porn ring that cloned 25 million Web pages and "hijacked" unsuspecting visitors to its smut sites.
[September 23, 1999, 9:29]
Study: US out ahead on e-commerce
News That's according to a University of Utah professor who offered preliminary results on Tuesday of what may be the first study of consumers' experience of international e-commerce at the Federal Trade Commission's "Consumer Protection in the Global...
[June 9, 1999, 9:44]
Nokia and Qualcomm's fractious past
News June 2006: Qualcomm says Nokia is engaging in unfair trade practices by importing and selling phones which it alleges infringe six of its GSM patents and asks the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban Nokia from importing the devices to...
[October 2, 2007, 9:44]
Tiny-drive maker fights back against Seagate
News In addition, Seagate filed a patent infringement complaint against Cornice with the US International Trade Commission, asking the trade commission "to exclude Cornice disk drives and any systems or products using or containing Cornice disk drives...
[August 19, 2004, 11:40]
EMC and Hitachi agree to cross-license patents
News EMC also asked the International Trade Commission to block the importation of the HDS software. The trade commission proceeding was scheduled to begin next week. Storage makers EMC and Hitachi on Tuesday settled their patent-infringement suits and...
[March 4, 2003, 14:54]
EC launches antitrust probe against Qualcomm
News In 2006, it filed a similar complaint in the UK courts and lodged a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC), claiming Nokia was engaging in unfair trade practices. Following its recent victory over Microsoft, the European...
[October 2, 2007, 8:46]
Digital downloads tax EC/US relations
News The proposal may potentially be inconsistent with international trade obligations in the World Trade Organization. But Jonathan Todd, a European Commission spokesman on internal markets and taxation, said that the proposal is in accord with...
[February 11, 2002, 15:20]
Obama team takes on more tech execs
News He previously served as chief domestic policy adviser to vice president Al Gore and was chief of the international bureau at the Federal Communications Commission. He is also part of the working group overseeing international trade and economics...
[November 14, 2008, 11:27]
Ongoing SEC investigations may hit 'serious' problems
News A major field office of the Securities and Exchange Commission was destroyed in Tuesday's attack on the World Trade Center, possibly creating serious problems for ongoing investigations of technology companies.
[September 13, 2001, 16:36]
US aims to bring down China's regulatory wall
News China's trade with the United States came to $191.7bn in 2003 ($28.4bn in US exports to China and $163.7bn in Chinese exports to the United States), up 23.2 percent from the year before, according to statistics from the US International Trade...
[March 19, 2004, 14:45]
Taiwan: MS may have violated trade laws
News A taskforce, formed under Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC), will take at least six months to decide if action should be taken against Microsoft. The antitrust case against Microsoft can still go back the to Court of Appeals, and then there's...
[May 8, 2002, 9:05]
FBI unplugs candidate copycat site
News The Federal Trade Commission has dubbed such practices "page jacking" and has already pursued one huge case in which millions of unsuspecting Web surfers were redirected to porn sites as a result of being snagged in the page-jacking scam.
[February 21, 2000, 9:34]
Sony continues the fight for regional coding
News The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has stepped into a Federal Court case to challenge the international agreement on regional coding of DVDs. The commission this morning announced it was intervening as 'a friend of the court' in an...
[February 8, 2002, 10:07]
