Certain Organic Photoconductor Drums and Products Containing the Same; Notice of Investigation

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Notice is hereby given that a complaint was filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission on April 30, 1998, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. Sec. 1337, on behalf of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, 5-2, Marunouchi, 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100 Japan, and Mitsubishi Chemical America, Inc., One North Lexington Avenue, White Plains, New York 10601. Supplements to the complaint were filed on May 18 and May 28, 1998, and a letter withdrawing the complaint as to two of the proposed respondents was filed on May 26, 1998. 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 organic photoconductor drums and products containing the same that infringe claim 1 of U.S. Letters Patent 4,680,246 and claims 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 of U.S. Letters Patent 4,396,696. The complaint further alleges that there exists an industry in the United States as required by subsection (a)(2) of section 337. The complainants request that the Commission institute an investigation and, after a hearing, issue a permanent exclusion orde