October. 16,2014 – The latest on FCPA ruling, International Trade Commission and more.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Miami began to tackle an important foreign bribery case on Oct. 11, and the resulting interpretation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) could be crucial for all businesses conducting affairs outside the U.S. Joel Esquenazi and Carlos Rodriguez, two ex-executives of Terra Telecommunications Corp., were previously found guilty in August 2011 of bribing Haiti’s official state-owned telecom company, Haiti Teleco, in order to receive government contracts. Under the FCPA, Esquenazi
received 15 years in jail. However, lawyers for the two
attempted to appeal on the basis that Haiti Teleco officials did not constitute “foreign officials” as defined by the FCPA…[
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U.S appellate judges tackled a U.S. foreign bribery case for the first time, confronting a central issue with the law during oral arguments. A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Miami
heard oral arguments for nearly an hour on Friday in a closely watched corruption case that could set precedent in a section of U.S. law enforcement that has been highly active in recent years… [
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The U.S. Supreme Court let InterDigital Inc. (
IDCC:US) pursue a bid to extract patent royalties from Nokia Oyj (
NOK:US) for the third generation of mobile-phone technology. The nation’s highest court today rejected an appeal by Nokia, which contended that InterDigital couldn’t block imports of the disputed technology because it wasn’t making any products of its own. A federal appeals court had said InterDigital could press the case, one of several the company has filed at the U.S. International Trade Commission… [
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In a court filing made last week, it was revealed that Apple has officially lodged an appeal of unfavorable decisions made by the U.S. International Trade Commission in its decision to levy an import ban against certain Samsung products. Despite the U.S. government shutdown, the
ITC published Apple’s Notice of Appeal and Petition for Review, which was submitted to the trade body last Wednesday and
discovered on Tuesday by
FOSS Patents’ Florian Mueller…. [
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