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It has been more than two months since Canon sued 50 manufacturers of new-built cartridges and their U.S. distributors. Canon accused the companies of making and selling toner cartridges and photosensitive drum units which infringe Canon’s patents, U.S. numbers 9,746,826; 9,836,021; 9,841,727; 9,841,728; 9,841,729; 9,857,764; 9,857,765; 9,869,960 and 9,874,846. In the past month, we can...
Aftermarket supplies businesses Color Imaging and General Plastic Industrial have urged the courts to provide them with a new trial because the jury ordered them to pay “grossly excessive damages” to Canon. Color Imaging, Inc. (CI), based in Georgia USA, and General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. (GPI) of Taiwan filed the order with the US...
Police have confiscated counterfeit toner cartridges worth €10 million (US$11.9 million) and apprehended a gang involved in worldwide trafficking in Hesse, Germany. According to hessenschau.de customs officials in Frankfurt arrested 24 people allegedly involved in the German-Iranian gang that manufactured and sold counterfeit Kyocera toner cartridges. Police raided 24 residential and business premises in the Rhein-Main and...
A court in the Netherlands says the sale of replacement ink cartridges is permitted, even if the cartridges relate to an essential part of a patented invention. The Court of Appeal at the Hague ruled in favor of Digital Revolution in a case brought on by HP. According to Lexology, the court ruled the user of...
US Copyright Office wants Congress to pass legislation so that customers have the right to repair products bought from companies who prevent consumers from doing this. Thehill.com reported that the US Copyright Office wrote in a report: “The Office recommends against limiting an exemption to specific technologies or devices, such as motor vehicles, as any statutory...
HP Inc awarded a cartridge patent 9,618,898 that would enable HP Inc to expand their Instant Ink programme to include toner cartridges. HP Inc has been awarded patent 9,618,898 and the invention to increase the toner supply capacity in some electrophotographic printers without also increasing the size of the printer, reducing the need for the user to...
The USITC has issued two seizure and forfeiture orders against two separate companies, one being Clover Technologies. The two seizure and forfeiture orders are said to be the first ones to be issued in 2017. According to copies of legal documents provided to RT Media, Illinois-based Clover Technologies and its subsidiary Cartridges Are Us were found...
Recent ranking of preliminary patent results show that Canon Inc. remains first in ranking among Japanese companies for the number of U.S. patents won in 2016. According to the results issued by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, Canon ranks third overall in number of US patents it owns in 2016. The company claims that it prizes...
To further safeguard its interests and defend the business of its authorized dealers, Epson has conducted a series of raids in Mumbai and Chennai. Local police joined Epson to demonstrate the government’s “no tolerance” position towards the sale and manufacturing of counterfeit inks. Epson’s vigilance team urged Mumbai police to raided one dealer’s premises in...
The Imaging Supplies Coalition (ISC) is comprised of OEMs that have come together for the sole purpose of fighting fraud and counterfeiting in imaging supplies. The ISC reported that their work has resulted in hundreds of thousands of products worth millions of dollars have been removed from commerce. In September, the ISC recently held their...
