The United States should Motorola launched 337 investigations of Apple products
U.S. International Trade Commission on the 18th Motorola mobile company requirements, launched the “337 investigation” of the U.S. Apple wireless communication devices, portable music and data processing equipment, computers and their components, in order to determine whether there is patent infringement.
The U.S. International Trade Commission said in a statement that the product involved in the Apple iPhone, iPod, iPad and PC.
The American Motorola mobile company to appeal to the U.S. International Trade Commission on August 17, accusing the company’s patent infringement in the U.S. market, sales of the products involved, requirements to start the “337 investigation” and issue an exclusion order and injunction.
The so-called “337 investigation” was first named after section 337 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930 “, after experiencing several major amendments. Under the terms, the U.S. International Trade Commission the power to investigate complaints of related patents and registered trademark infringement, in addition to carry out a survey involving misappropriation of trade secrets, merchandise packaging infringement, imitation and false advertising and other content.
After start “337 investigation”, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the agency must be in the target time of 45 days to determine the final ruling, and as soon as possible to complete its investigation is usually the case needs to make a ruling within a year. If the enterprises involved have been convicted of a violation of section 337 of the U.S. International Trade Commission will publish the exclusion order and injunction related products, which means that the product concerned will completely lose eligibility sales in the U.S. market.