Canon, Google, Announce New Cooperative Patent-Licensing Agreement and LOT Group Designed to Stop Patent Trolls
Canon Inc. of Tokyo along with companies Asana, Dropbox, Google, Newegg, and SAP today announced the formation of the License......
Category: Patent-Infringement
Top News for the Week of 6/23/2014 – Toshiba’s New A3 Mono MFP Family; How Users are Printing; HP Lawsuit; More
This week’s news that Hewlett-Packard announced two new Officejet Pro inkjet models will probably be met with a “sigh, so......
Top News for the Week of 6/9/2014 – HP PageWide Inkjet for Large Format, Xerox Targeting High-Speed Inkjet, More
This week, inkjet was again in the news, with news from Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, and Xerox. In particular, this week’s inkjet......
ITC Investigating Alleged Patent-Infringement of Canon Laser-Printer Supplies
China Daily reports that the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has begun a patent-investigation into toner cartridges marketed by some......
Printronic Agrees Not to Sell Alleged Patent-Infringing Laser-Printer Supplies in the U.S.
Canon Inc. of Tokyo reports that it’s successfully concluded a patent infringement lawsuit against Printronic Corporation, which does business under......
Top News for the Week of 5/27/2014 – Ink Still Flowing at HP; Ricoh Goes Retail; More
Last week, the big news was about Hewlett-Packard, which reported essentially flat revenue growth for its first quarter. versus its......
Katun Refutes Canon Patent-Infringement Lawsuit
Katun, which is headquartered in Minneapolis, and is a provider of OEM-compatible printer supplies (toner cartridges, photoreceptors, etc.) recently responded......
Canon Continues Fight Against Third-Party Toner-Cartridge Makers, this Time in France
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, is continuing its fight against third-party toner-cartridge makers, now moving the battle to France. The......
Top News for the Week of 5/19/2014 – New Print-Management Solutions for Konica Minolta, Kyocera; Inkjet Strong in Production; More
There was no new office-imaging hardware this week, but two vendors introduced print-management solutions: Konica Minolta reported that NSi Output......
Canon Wins Permanent Injunction Banning Provantage from Selling Toner Cartridges in U.S.
Canon Inc. of Japan reports that it’s concluded a patent-infringement lawsuit against Provantage, LLC in the U.S. District Court for......
Top News for the Week of 5/12/2014 – More Good News from Japan, Western Europe, Mopria
Good news this week from Japan and Western Europe. This week in news from Japan, Sharp finally returns to a profitable year, Konica Minolta......
Canon Goes After Toner Remanufacturers in a Big Way
Canon Inc. of Japan announced that it’s filed patent-infringement lawsuits against no less than 33 toner-cartridge remanufacturers. The firm reported......
Top News for the Week of 4/28/2014 – Xerox Upgrades Print Security, Mopria Certification Soon; Sharp Improvement for Ricoh, Epson; More
This week, Xerox was in the spotlight, introducing several new products and solutions for virtually everyone. For enterprises, there was......
Judge Sends Vermont’s Lawsuit Against MPHJ Technology back to State Court
InsideCounsel.com reports that a U.S. District Court judge has remanded the state of Vermont’s case against MPHJ Technology Investments back...
Top News for the Week of 4/7/2014 – HP Puts the Capture-and-Route into Enterprise Inkjet; ‘4D Printing’; More
Photo credit: jmtimages / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) New Products and Solutions For an......
Judge Rules Data-Storage Patent-Infringement Suit Against Xerox, Toshiba Can Proceed
reports that a Delaware federal judge has refused to dismiss nearly a dozen suits brought by a computer engineer against Xerox,......
