[co-author: Nicole Hager] This alert was originally published on January 6, 2021 and updated on May 13, 2021.
UPDATE: On May 6, 2021, following a request from the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that it was instituting a second investigation into foreign censorship (
Foreign Censorship Part 2: Trade and Economic Effects on U.S. Businesses, Inv. No. 332-586) and accelerating the comment and hearing schedule for the first investigation (
Foreign Censorship Part 1: Policies and Practices Affecting U.S. Businesses, Inv. No. 332-585). On January 26, 2021, the ITC announced that it would initiate a new factfinding investigation, “Foreign Censorship: Trade and Economic Effects on U.S. Businesses,” on the effects of foreign censorship policies and practices on business in the United States.
A California tablet maker has failed to overturn a US International Trade Commission ruling that Nintendo’s Switch console and Joy-Con controllers didn’t infringe its patents.
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$400 billion of planned petrochemical outlay at risk on exaggerated plastics demand
Carbon Tracker Initiative, 04 September 2020
Key Quotes
Remove the plastic pillar holding up the future of the oil
industry, and the whole narrative of rising oil demand collapses.
Kingsmill Bond, Carbon Tracker Energy Strategist and report lead
author.
There are huge benefits in the change from the current linear
system to a more circular one. You can have all the functionality
of plastics but at half the capital cost, half the amount of
feedstock, 700,000 additional jobs and 80% less plastic pollution.
Yoni Shiran, lead author of Breaking the Plastic Wave
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Earlier today, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) announced a pilot program that will allow Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) to issue interim Initial Determinations (IDs) on fewer than all issues in Section 337 investigations. The announcement can be found here. The pilot program is part of the ITC’s ongoing efforts to expeditiously resolve Section 337 investigations, either through resolution of issues on the merits or by facilitating settlement. The pilot program will apply to all investigations instituted on or after May 12, 2021, and to investigations instituted prior to May 12, 2021 at the discretion of the ALJ.
Under the pilot program, ALJs can issue interim IDs focused on case-dispositive issues or significant issues that may facilitate settlement, in advance of the main evidentiary hearing. Possible issues may include infringement, patent invalidity, patent eligibility, standing, and/or the domestic industry requirement. ALJs w
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This report provides a snapshot of the US Executive Branch
priorities via daily schedules and the prior day s press
releases.
POTUS Schedule
9:30 a.m. EDT - The President receives the President s Daily
Brief | Oval Office
10:30 a.m. EDT - The President speaks with NATO s eastern
flank Allies, who will be meeting in a virtual summit of the
Bucharest Nine (B9) | Roosevelt Room
1:15 p.m. EDT - The President delivers remarks on the economy;
The Vice President also attends | East Room
Looking ahead, on May 12, the President will host a