USS ordered to pay $15,000 in costs as Timken’s trademark claim remains pending. The High Court has struck out United Shipping Services’ (USS) attempt to bring ST Engineering Aerospace Systems (STEAS) into a trademark infringement suit filed by US bearings manufacturer Timken. Timken alleges USS infringed its trademarks by importing and selling counterfeit bearings to STEAS and the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF), and by providing falsified Timken certificates. It also rejected USS’s joint-tortfeasor claim, finding no pleaded facts showing that STEAS had procured or induced USS to commit the alleged infringement. The ruling does not decide Timken’s underlying trademark infringement claim against USS, but only USS’s attempt to pursue contribution and joint liability against STEAS.