After months of heightened attention about its growing problem with counterfeiters, Amazon has imposed a fee and new authentication requirements for certain brands in an apparent attempt to address the problem. Growing concerns over counterfeit products being sold on Amazon, along with criticism about the company’s move in recent years to invite Chinese manufacturers to
The year 2016 is now officially the year in which the most seizure-and-forfeiture orders have been issued for violations of general exclusion orders (GEOs) on ink and toner cartridges. It is also the year in which the most companies have received such orders. Seizure-and-forfeiture orders are issued by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) after
So far this year, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued 59 seizure-and-forfeiture orders to companies for violating general exclusion orders (GEOs) on ink and toner cartridges (see the complete list below). This compares with the 60 seizure orders issued in 2016. The latest company to be issued such an order is Lucky Print
Yesterday, we wrote that in July the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) issued seizure-and-forfeiture orders to three companies for violating various general exclusion orders (GEOs) on printer consumables (see “Three More Seizure-and-Forfeiture Orders Issued to Companies for Importing Infringing Aftermarket Consumables”). Since then, we learned that a fourth company received such an order. YMCK Gets
On July 11, three companies seeking to import aftermarket consumables into the United States were issued seizure-and-forfeiture orders by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) determined the cartridges violated general exclusion orders (GEOs). That brings the total number of such orders issued so far in 2016 to 57
On June 27, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that it has voted to institute a Section 337 investigation entitled, “Certain Inkjet Printers, Printheads, and Ink Cartridges, Components Thereof, and Products Containing Same.” This is the complaint that HP Inc. filed on May 27 alleging that 25 companies, including Memjet and its partners and
Over the past few days there have been some new developments in the HP and Memjet page-wide inkjet litigation. HP filed a reply with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in which it sought to counter Memjet’s arguments that the ITC should not institute a Section 337 investigation into alleged infringement of the HP patents
Memjet has spoken up about the new U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) complaint filed against it by HP. At the end of May, HP Inc. filed a complaint alleging violations of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). Entitled, “Certain Inkjet Printers, Printheads, and Ink Cartridges, Components
We are about halfway through the year, and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued nearly the same number of seizure-and-forfeiture orders to firms that have violated general exclusion orders (GEOs) issued in ink and toner cartridge investigations as it did in all of 2015. In 2015, the ITC issued 60 such orders after
On June 1, a version of the complaint that HP Inc. filed against Memjet and its partners with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) was made public. In related news, HP has filed a parallel patent-infringement complaint against Memjet in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Although HP filed its ITC complaint,
