This Week in Imaging: ‘When in Doubt, Hit Print’
This week we were in court for a routine matter, and one thing that struck us was how much lawyers...
This week we were in court for a routine matter, and one thing that struck us was how much lawyers...
Canon / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 4, 2019 · Last modified April 30, 2019
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, today announced it’s concluded a patent infringement lawsuit against FTrade Inc., which does business under......
Canon / Featured Posts / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published April 2, 2019 · Last modified April 18, 2019
In March 2018, the ITC had announced that it was initiating a patent-infringement investigation on behalf of Canon Inc. against a number of sellers of after-market third-party toner cartridges.
Industry trade group, Recycling Times Media, which is based in China and represents the “remanufactured” toner-cartridge industry, continues to illegally post entire articles from Wirth Consulting without permission.
Amazon / Canon / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 27, 2019 · Last modified April 18, 2019
This week in Canon Inc.’s continuing battle against third-party toner cartridges designed for use in HP laser printers, it announced a new patent-infringement lawsuit, as well as new injunctions and new Amazon cartridge take-downs.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 22, 2019 · Last modified March 26, 2019
While this is of course speculation, it’s beginning to look a lot like HP Inc. will acquire Xerox – not......
Canon / Imaging Supplies / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 19, 2019 · Last modified March 26, 2019
Fresh off a key patent-infringement defeat at the hands of the U.S. International Trade Commission, Canon requested Amazon to remove multiple aftermarket toner cartridges from its Web site.
Canon / Imaging Supplies / Lexmark / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 18, 2019 · Last modified March 26, 2019
“We respect (the) IP rights of others and we also request ours to be respected.”
Canon / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 15, 2019 · Last modified April 18, 2019
Court ruling is a blow for Canon, as USITC rules against it.
As Amazon made it easy for thousands of Chinese vendors to sell to Americans, Office Depot could be also making it much easier for Chinese vendors to sell printer and copier consumables to Americans.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 7, 2019 · Last modified March 18, 2019
“Our stance from the very beginning of this was that our solution, marketed as SafeDrive, was just that – safe.”
Amazon / Canon / Imaging Supplies / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 4, 2019 · Last modified March 18, 2019
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, today reported that it’s requested Amazon to remove three third-party toner cartridges listed for sale......
According to Canon U.S.A., while much of the print and imaging industry has been undergoing substantial changes, it can say it...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 1, 2019 · Last modified April 18, 2019
We’re sure many in the industry breathed a sigh of relief this week when President Trump announced that the United...
Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 26, 2019 · Last modified April 18, 2019
HP saw a boom in copier sales last year in India – IDC noted that “On the copier side, HP grew significantly in 2018 with a shipment growth of 202 percent and a market share of 11.4 percent.”
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 22, 2019 · Last modified February 27, 2019
The preliminary injunction is based on the infringement of the German portion of Canon’s European patent EP 2 087 407 relating to a drum unit and a process cartridge.
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