U.S. market remains open for TEAC Corporation

We defended TEAC in an ITC case brought by Tandon Industries involving the head assemblies in floppy disk drives. While a temporary exclusion order was granted against all respondents, we later established that TEAC's head assemblies were not covered by the patent. The matter was favorably settled on behalf of TEAC before the hearing on permanent relief, and the noninfringement position we devised was successfully asserted by the remaining respondent. That noninfringement defense was adopted by the judge, the full ITC, and ultimately, the Federal Circuit.