The U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC’s) decision late last week to issue a general exclusion order (GEO) barring the importation of gears, drums, and toner cartridges that infringe two Canon patents came as no surprise to the third-party supplies industry (see “U.S. ITC to Restrict Imports of Infringing Canon Gears; Alerts U.S. Customs of GEO”).
