Certain Spiral Grilled Products Including Ducted Fans and Components Thereof; Notice of Investigation

Résumé

Notice is hereby given that a complaint was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission on November 26, 1999, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. Sec. 1337, on behalf of Vornado Air Circulation Systems, Inc. of Andover, Kansas. A supplementary letter was filed on January 7, 2000. On December 28, 1999, the Commission voted to extend the deadline by which it had to decide whether to institute an investigation based on the complaint. 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 spiral grilled products, including ducted fans, and components thereof by reason of (i) infringement of claims 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 of U.S. Letters Patent Re. 34,551, and (ii) misappropriation of trade dress. The complaint further alleges that there exists an industry in the United States as required by subsection (a)(2) of section 337. The complainant requests that the Commission institute an investigation and, after the investigation, issue a permanent exclusion order and a permanent cease and des