Certain Cigarettes and Packaging Thereof; Notice of Investigation

Resumen

Notice is hereby given that a complaint was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission on August 17, 1999, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. 1337, on behalf of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 1500 Brown & Williamson Tower, Louisville, Kentucky 40202. A supplement to the complaint was filed on September 8, 1999. The complaint, as supplemented, alleges violations of section 337 in the importation into the United States, the sale for importation, and the sale within the United States after importation of certain cigarettes and packaging thereof by reason of (a) infringement of U.S. Trademark Registration Nos. 118,372, 311,961, 335,113, 366,744, 404,302, 508,538, 747,482, 747,490, 2,055,297, 2,174,493, and 2,218,589, (b) unfair competition under the Lanham Act, (c) improper importation of products under the Lanham Act, and (d) dilution of the registered trademarks. The complaint further alleges that there exists an industry in the United States with respect to the asserted trademarks. The complaint further alleges that the threat or effect of the proposed respondents' unfair acts is to destroy or substantially injure that domestic industry. Th