On May 26, K.Mizra LLC, a non-practicing entity (NPE) that acquired some multifunction printer (MFP) patents from Sharp Corporation in October 2020, filed a patent-infringement complaint against Konica Minolta, Inc. and Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. K.Mizra has sued three other printer OEMs—HP, Lexmark, and Toshiba—for infringement of the Sharp patents. All three defendants settled
