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Intellectual Property

Aug. 1, 2009

Outcome of Patent Fight Over Digital Televisions Still Fuzzy

The U.S. customs service may be the ultimate arbiter in a hard-fought case between Japan-based Funai Electric Co. and competing makers of digital televisions that the U.S. International Trade Commission said infringed Funai's patent.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The U.S. customs service may be the ultimate arbiter in a hard-fought case between Japan-based Funai Electric Co. and competing makers of digital televisions that the U.S. International Trade Commission said infringed Funai's patent.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the ITC this week both denied motions to stay an order blocking the import of digital televisions that infringed Funai...

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