US trade agency isn’t allowed to block overseas internet data
If you’ve followed the smartphone patent wars, you know that the US International Trade Commission is a force to be reckoned with — copy someone’s product and you could face a sales ban. Its authority apparently doesn’t extend into the digital realm, however. An appeals court has ruled that the ITC can’t block internet transmissions from other countries when it hands down a ruling. The court argued that there’s a “fundamental difference” between data and material goods, and that the ITC’s authority only covers physical objects.
Source: Reuters
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