U.S. Steel avoids penalty requested by Chinese companies in reaction to trans-shipment claim

U.S. Steel has dodged Chinese efforts to fully derail the company's false-designation-of-origin claim in an ongoing section 337 case at the U.S. International Trade Commission, where Administrative Law Judge Dee Lord has “narrowly” decided to deny Chinese respondents’ motion to impose sanctions on U.S. Steel. Chinese respondents argued that U.S. Steel intentionally omitted country-of-origin information in its original complaint -- which U.S. Steel says would have had no impact on Lord’s ultimate decision on the claim. The false-designation-of-origin claim was...