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On November 19, 2014, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published in Customs Bulletin and Decisions a notice pursuant to 19 CFR § 133.2(f), advising interested parties that CBP has granted “Lever-rule” protection for the following textbooks, intended for sale in the United States, bearing the “WILEY” trademark (CBP Rec. No. TMK 06–01435) and the “JW & DESIGN” trademark (CBP Rec. No. TMK 06–01378): (1) Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, Fifth Edition; (2) Communication Systems, Fifth Edition; (3) Project Management: A Managerial Approach, Seventh Edition; (4) Principles of Genetics, Fifth Edition; (5) Management, Tenth Edition; (6) Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, Sixth Edition; (7) Basic Concepts of Chemistry, Eighth Edition; (8) Financial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making, Fifth Edition; (9) Intermediate Accounting, Thirteenth Edition; (10) Managerial Accounting, Fourth Edition; and (11) Accounting Principles, Ninth Edition. In accordance with the holding of Lever Bros. Co. v. United States, 981 F.2d 1330 (D.C. Cir. 1993), CBP has determined that the gray market textbooks differ physically and materially from their correlating textbooks authorized for sale in the United States with respect to the following product characteristics: product construction, design, quality, appearance, market pricing and labeling. Importation of the above-referenced textbooks, intended for sale in other countries is restricted, unless the labeling requirements of 19 CFR § 133.23(b) are satisfied. The notice was signed January 30, 2014. |
