ITC Comments Due on Import Ban Sought on PCs, Phones From 6 Vendors

Comments are due May 26 in docket 337-3621 at the International Trade Commission on the public interest ramifications of the cease and desist and limited exclusion orders that Sonrai Memory seeks in a May 11 complaint on laptops, desktops, mobile phones and tablets from Amazon, Dell, Lenovo, LG, Motorola and Samsung for allegedly infringing a January 2007 patent (7,159,766) on the power-saving characteristics of memory devices, says a notice for Wednesday’s Federal Register. Consumers will have available to them in the U.S. marketplace “a wide variety of laptops, desktops, mobile phones, and tablets, as well as other competitive non-infringing products, if the accused products are excluded from the United States,” said Sonrai, a Dublin-based company, whose main licensee is Microchip Technology in Chandler, Arizona. None of the proposed respondents commented Tuesday.