A non-practicing entity (NPE) called K.Mizra LLC acquired some MFP-related patents from Sharp in October 2020 and set to work filing patent-infringement lawsuits against MFP vendors including HP, Lexmark, and Toshiba. The patent-assertion campaign has proven a successful one—for K.Mizra. After gleaning settlements from first Lexmark and then HP in 2021, the NPE tucked another
