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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a company that imports a product bearing a counterfeit mark can be liable for penalties under federal law (the Tariff Act) even if the owner of the mark in question does not make the product in question
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the International Trade Commission’s (ITC) ruling that the safe harbor statute applies in proceedings under the Tariff Act relating to process patents, as well as product patents, for imported products that are used for the exempt purposes of 271(e)(1
