“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried the titular Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It is a sentiment we share whenever we peer down the rabbit hole that is Epson’s lawsuit against an alleged ring of inkjet cartridge counterfeiters in Nevada. The case immediately captured our attention because such a large cartridge counterfeiting operation inside the United
There is a new patent troll on the block with some printer- and fax-related patents in its portfolio that it is asserting against HP, OKI, and Panasonic. On August 3, a company called OpenPrint LLC filed three patent-infringement lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. One of the lawsuits names HP
It’s raining motions in a Georgia district court, and the judge in the case has declared, “Enough is enough.” Since a jury determined that Color Imaging and General Plastic had infringed a patent Canon holds on toner bottles and awarded Canon nearly $4.5 million, the parties have filed various post-trial motions with most of the slew
In May of this year and again in July, Actionable Intelligence has seen reports stating that Black Point S.A. prevailed in a patent-infringement litigation brought against the company by HP. The news puzzled us because the last time we heard about HP’s lawsuit against the Polish remanufacturer, the OEM had reported it had won the
We imagine it might be a challenging time to work for Ricoh U.S.A. The company is reorganizing its U.S. sales channels by moving contracts and machines-in-field from its direct sales organization to dealers and laying off employees (see “Ricoh America Reorganizes Channel, Cuts Workforce,” “Ricoh Ends Fiscal 2016 with Big Slide in Profits, Focuses on
HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the companies that together once formed Hewlett-Packard Company, are already fighting one class action over claims that their workforce reduction programs unfairly targeted older workers (see “HP Faces Suits over Age and Sex Discrimination, ERISA Litigation”). Now the companies face another discrimination class action. A class action filed
It has been nearly two months since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Impression Products v. Lexmark International (see “U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Impression Products and against Lexmark on Patent-Exhaustion Questions”). In a case that centered on whether remanufactured cartridges using cores sold with a single-use-only restriction and cores first sold
It took a while, but a securities class action against Lexmark over its slumping share price in the years leading up to its acquisition has finally materialized. On April 19, 2016, Lexmark announced that it would be acquired by a consortium of investors led by Apex Technology, PAG Asia Capital, and Legend Capital (see “It’s
Since late 2016, Epson has filed ten patent-infringement lawsuits against companies that sell aftermarket inkjet cartridges online in U.S. district court. Now, yet another defendant has settled with the OEM and agreed to a consent judgment and permanent injunction to resolve the litigation. A judgment ending Epson’s lawsuit against OW Supplies Corp. and Smart and
Static Control Components has announced that it is suing Aster Graphics for infringing two of its patents relating to dongle-gear designs used in various Canon and HP laser cartridges. The aftermarket components giant filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on July 17, less than two weeks after
