Legal Opinion
United States v. Texas Instruments Inc.
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided April 17, 1980No. C.A.D. 1243; No. 79-32PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MarKet, Chief Judge.
The Government appeals from the judgment of the Customs Court, Texas Instruments, Inc. v. United States, 82 Cust. Ct. 287, C.D. 4811, 475 F. Supp. 1193 (1979), sustaining Texas Instruments’ classification protest relating to imported visible light emitting diode (VLED) display devices used as components in solid-state digital watches. Judge Nils A. Boe held classification under item 685.70,2 “electrical indicator panels or electrical visual signaling apparatus,” to be proper. We affirm.
Background
The imported articles, entered from Taiwan in June 1976, are VLED display…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Texas Instruments Inc. v. United StatesUnited States Customs Court · 1979
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