History would appear to be repeating itself. The final active respondents in Canon’s “dongle gear” toner cartridge investigation currently before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) have settled with the OEM, and the parties jointly filed a motion asking for the hearing that was supposed to get underway on February 18 to be suspended. That
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has determined that it will conduct the investigation requested by Epson in the complaint it filed on December 23. A January 21 notice stated that, having considered the complaint, the ITC ordered on January 20 that it will institute an investigation to determine whether section 337 of the Tariff
Less than a month into the new year U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has already been active in the enforcement of general exclusion orders (GEOs) issued by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). On January 16, CBP denied entry into the country of consumables barred by two different GEOs. One of the seizure and
Seiko Epson along with Epson America and Epson Portland filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on December 23. The OEM alleges 19 third-party supplies vendors violated five patents issued to Seiko Epson over the past two years for technologies used in its ink tanks. The complaint requests that the commission investigate
As August came to a close, Apex Microelectronics issued a pair of interesting announcements. First, the firm commented on an Actionable Intelligence article about U.S. Customs’ barring entry into the United States of some compatible HP inkjet supplies that may not be imported as a result of a 2011 U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) general
We learned that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently denied entry into the United States of some inkjet supplies that cannot be imported under a general exclusion order (GEO) that the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) awarded to HP in investigation 337-TA-691 (see “HP Reveals the Breadth of the ITC’s General Exclusion Order for
As July came to a close, we heard news that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently denied entry into the United States of some consumables that may not be imported into the country as a result of two different general exclusion orders (GEOs) issued by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). It appears that
At the end of January, Canon filed 11 patent-infringement lawsuits against 18 companies that manufacture or sell third-party toner cartridges for various Canon and HP-branded laser printers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (see “Here We Go Again: Canon Sues Firms for Infringing Various Gear and Drum Patents”). What
On March 5, Green Project announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a patent on its “GP” gear technology for replacement OPC drums and the all-in-one toner cartridges containing them. Green Project announced its GP gear last fall (see “Green Project Announces GP Gear Design for Canon and HP Toner Cartridges”),
On January 15, Union Technology International (MCO) Co. Ltd. (UTec), Print-Rite’s global master distributor, announced the addition of two new models to its SmarTact line of compatible HP toner cartridges. The SmarTact HP CF283A and HP Q2612A are compatible with HP laser devices and feature UTec’s patented NoTwist drum gear (see “Print-Rite Introduces NoTwist Drum