Canon has once again asked the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) for leave to amend the complaint and notice of investigation in which it accused numerous aftermarket toner cartridge makers and sellers of infringing its dongle gear patents. The big change that the OEM wishes to make is to eliminate a slew of patent claims
It has been about a week since we last updated readers on the status of Canon’s parallel toner cartridge patent-infringement complaints before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in federal court (see “Canon Makes Then Withdraws Motion to Amend ITC Complaint, Moves to Find Respondents in Default”). Since then, there have been a few
The hardcopy peripherals market in Australia took a hard dive during the first quarter of 2018, according to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) “Asia Pacific Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker.” Laser and inkjet markets tumbled 8.6 percent and 9.3 percent, respectively, over the same period last year. IDC attributes the decline to falling sales of low-price brands,
Three years after Chinese aftermarket supplies manufacturer Print-Rite came out with its PR2 gear design that the firm claimed “saved” the industry from Canon’s dongle gear patent litigation campaign (see “Print-Rite Promotes PR-2 Gear Solution in Advance of Likely GEO for Canon” and “Print-Rite’s PR-2 Gear Gets U.S. Patent”), it has launched a new PR3
At the end of May, Actionable Intelligence reported that Canon has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) for leave to amend its complaint and notice of investigation (see “FTrade Defaults in Canon ITC Investigation, Agrees to Injunction in District Court”). At the time, Canon’s filing was confidential, so it was impossible to see how
In general, nothing makes a company become quiet faster than being named a defendant in a lawsuit. But the hue and cry over Canon’s recent monochrome toner cartridge litigation in the United States is almost unprecedented, with OEM partners Canon and HP using the litigation to try to strike fear in the hearts of channel
On June 7, Canon announced that Toyotsugu Kuwamura, executive vice president and general manager of Canon U.S.A.’s Business Imaging Solutions Group (BISG) and chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Canon Solutions America, Inc., will retire on July 1. Canon says it has appointed Shinichi Yoshida as Mr. Kuwamura’s successor as executive vice president and
At the end of April and throughout May, printer and copier OEMs reported quarterly financial results for the three-month period ended on March 31, 2018. For all the Japanese OEMs, except Canon, this period was the fourth quarter and the end of their fiscal years. For Canon and Xerox, this period was the first quarter
On June 6, Canon Inc. announced that it has obtained yet another preliminary injunction against an online aftermarket cartridge seller in Germany. The latest injunction awarded to Canon was granted by the District Court Düsseldorf against Inkjets Toners and Cartridges Ltd. as well as against its directors. Inkjets Toners and Cartridges Ltd. is based in
Canon’s toner cartridge litigation in the United States aimed at manufacturer’s workarounds to the OEM’s dongle gear is big news and has dealers and resellers rightly concerned about the HP/Canon toner cartridges they are selling. Ninestar, it seems, is looking to allay those concerns by announcing yet another new dongle gear workaround. On February 28,
