Top News for the Week of 3/24/2013 – HP Inkjets for Enterprises; Trouble for MPHJ; More
Product Briefs HP Introduces New 72-ppm Officejet Enterprise Series The most interesting news this week was Hewlett-Packard’s roll-out of a......
Category: Patent-Infringement
FTC’s Motion to Dismiss MPHJ Technology’s Lawsuit Shot Down
Reports that U.S. District Judge Walter Smith Jr. has denied the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed...
Ricoh, Xerox, Lexmark File Petition with U.S. Patent Office to Invalidate MPHJ’s Scan-Patent Claims
Ricoh Americas, Xerox, and Lexmark International today filed two petitions for Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent No. 8,488,173, and certain......
U.S. Supreme Court: Static Control Can Proceed with Lawsuit Against Lexmark
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Static Control Components, which markets remanufactured and refilled Lexmark toner cartridges, can proceed......
Top News for the Week of 3/10/2014 – Samsung Cloud Print App, HP Business Inkjets, More
Products and Solutions Samsung is determined to make mobile printing as ubiquitous and easy as possible. It just previewed its......
Vermont Loses Round with MPHJ Technology
Law360 reports that the Vermont Attorney General will drop a request for a court injunction that would bar “patent troll” MPHJ...
Top News for the Week of 3/3/2014 – Ricoh A3 Color MFPs, Kodak Alaris, More
Products Ricoh is shipping new A3 color MFPs with cloud connectivity and smartphone apps. On the “old-school paper side” of......
Lexmark Cracks Down on Toner-Cartridge Patent Infringers at Remax Tradeshow
MicroScope reports that Lexmark International recently backed a raid at the Remax Paperworld exhibition held in Frankfurt, Germany. Lexmark, along with German authorities......
Lexmark, Konica Minolta, Ricoh, and Xerox Sued by Patent-Holding Firm
Marathon Patent Group, a patent-licensing company, reports that its subsidiary, CyberFone Systems, LLC (“CyberFone”), has filed four patent-infringement lawsuits in......
Top News for Week of 2/17/2014 – Worldwide Printer/MFP Market Continues Recovery; First Mopria-Certified MFP; More
New Products The big news this week was Hewlett-Packard’s introduction of the first imaging device that’s Mopria-certified for mobile printing.......
MPHJ Technology Calls Vermont’s Lawsuit a Sham, Seeks Sanctions
Law360 reports that notorious patent-enforcement firm MPHJ Technology has struck back against Vermont’s attorney general, petitioning a court on February...
Top News for the Week of 2/10/2014 – Mopria-Certified Printers On the Way; PaperCut for Controlling Mobile Printing; More
Legal News He’s got a lot of other things on his mind – namely the closing of three traffic lanes......
Canon Files Suits Against Cartridge Manufacturers; Union Technology Set to Defend Itself
On February 6th, Canon Inc. of Tokyo announced it had filed 11 patent-infringement suits in the United States against 18......
Judge: MPHJ Technology can Continue Sending Cease-and-Desist Scan-Patent Enforcement Letters
From Law360: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning cannot prevent the law firm Farney Daniels PC from...
Top News for the Week of 1/13/2014 – MPHJ Technology Sues Government, Anonymous Owner Revealed; Sharp Mono A3 MFPs Shipping, More
New Hardware Sharp keeps rolling along. News is that Sharp has launched new mid- to high-volume mono A3 MFPs that......
Epson to License Patent-Firm Intellectual Ventures’ 40,000 Intellectual-Property Assets
Patent-firm Intellectual Ventures reports that it’s signed a license agreement with Seiko Epson Corporation of Japan. The deal provides Epson with......
