ITC Votes to Institute Patent Case on Digital TVs Against Vizio

The International Trade Commission voted on September 13, 2011 to institute a section 337 patent-based investigation of certain digital televisions containing integrated circuit devices and components thereof (337-TA-806). The investigation is based on a complaint filed by Renesas Electronics Corporation of Japan and 511 Technologies, Inc. of TX. The complaints allege violations of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in the importation into the U.S. and sale of these products and requests that the ITC issue an exclusion order. The ITC has identified Vizio, Inc. of CA as the respondent in this investigation.