Arlington Industries will default in Canon’s Section 337 investigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). In other news related to Canon’s U.S. dongle gear toner cartridge litigation, a consent order and permanent injunction enjoining Fairland, LLC (doing business as ProPrint) from infringing Canon’s patents has now been entered by a federal court. To keep
Canon’s seemingly endless efforts in Germany to enforce its intellectual property on a so-called dongle gear design employed in Canon and HP all-in-one toner cartridges continued on May 14 with the news that the OEM has been awarded a preliminary injunction by the District Court Düsseldorf against Grey Systems GmbH and its managing director. According
On May 9, Canon Inc. announced that it has concluded a stock purchase agreement to acquire BriefCam Ltd., a developer and marketer of video content analysis (VCA) software that utilizes proprietary Video Synopsis technology. Canon says the transaction will be completed after it is cleared by regulatory authorities. The deal is part of Canon’s Excellent
The Age of Amazon has wrought changes that are both beneficial and detrimental to consumers, other businesses, and communities. Plenty of articles have been devoted to the “Amazon problem,” whether that means the closing of retail stores and emptying malls and strip malls, the bankruptcies of once-major retail chains, the types of jobs lost and
On May 9, Canon issued an announcement that should worry aftermarket supplies industry players: it has filed a second lawsuit against Ink Technologies Printer Supplies LLC in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. This is not the only litigation from Canon that Dayton, OH-based Ink Technologies Printer Supplies is facing. The company,
Apex Microelectronics, the aftermarket chip and component arm of Ninestar Corporation, recently announced an array of third-party chip solutions for the cartridges used in Brother, Canon, HP, and Samsung printers. Ninestar, which recently announced its fiscal 2017 results, reported that its Apex subsidiary had a good year, with profits up about 41 percent (see “Ninestar
As the weeks pass since Canon filed its toner cartridge patent-infringement complaints before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. district court, we are learning more about how various respondents/defendants will respond—or not—to Canon’s claims that they have infringed its dongle gear patents. Over the past couple of weeks, two more defendants, 9010-8077
On May 2, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a seizure-and-forfeiture order to NuTone for violating the general exclusion order Canon was awarded in 2015 on its “dongle gear” toner cartridge designs in the 337-TA-918 investigation (see “ITC Awards Canon GEO in Dongle Gear Investigation”). As shown below, this is the fourth seizure-and-forfeiture order related
TriMega Purchasing Association has done an about-face and notified dealers that it continues to support a range of toner cartridges marketed by Arlington Industries, including certain NXT-branded SKUs. The news follows a stern warning from the buying group last month telling dealers to stop selling allegedly infringing new-build toner cartridges like those in the NXT
On April 25, Canon Inc. announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2018, which ended on March 31, 2018. Many industry observers have been eagerly awaiting the firm’s results to see if Canon could keep up the momentum after a strong fiscal 2017 in which the company posted its first net sales and
