Captain Ted Baier and his charter fishing boat “Lethal Weapon” went fishing in March 2003 and encountered Jaws — or, at least, the jaws of the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”). According to charging letters and settlement agreements just…
The Bureau of Industry and Security has a new target: foreign employees of U.S. companies. BIS just posted an order, effective April 2, 2007, imposing a seven-year denial of export privileges on Stephen Lincoln, a citizen and resident of the…
We have criticized before the prosecution’s claim in the Chi Mak prosecution that the public domain exclusion doesn’t apply to exports of technical data to China. The prosecution bases its argument on language in section 126.1(a) of the ITAR that…
Two Indian nationals were arrested in the United States on March 23 for exporting dual-use items to India without a license. Although the indictment delivered by the District of Columbia grand jury is not yet posted on the Internet, recent…
. . . is to gag your opponent. And that’s exactly how the prosecution is trying to win the public domain argument in the Chi Mak trial, which we’ve discussed here and here. At least two of the three documents…