Over the last month, Lenexa, KS-based remanufacturer and reseller TonerCycle/InkCycle announced a number of new additions to its Value Line series of cartridges. The Value Line cartridges are a newer addition to the company’s range of products. The line consists of compatible cartridges marketed toward the more price-conscious user. According to TonerCycle/InkCycle’s marketing literature, the
The dispute may be old and Nukote’s name an increasingly distant memory, but Nukote’s $100 million lawsuit against Clover is slowly inching closer to some sort of resolution. Nukote filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in 2009 after losing its biggest customer, Office Depot, to Clover. Not long after filing for bankruptcy, Nukote
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
On February 18, Canon announced it had obtained a default judgment against European Cartridge Warehouse Limited (ECW) and Printer Supplies Technology Limited (PST) in a patent-infringement complaint that the OEM had filed in the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. Canon commenced legal proceedings against these firms in July 2014 (see “Canon Files
After nearly eight months of legal wrangling, HP has voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against Datel Holdings. The somewhat surprising move came last week, when a notice of voluntary dismissal was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. When we last reported on the Hewlett-Packard v. Datel Holdings case (see “Datel Responds
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) will hold its hearing in Canon’s toner cartridge patent-infringement complaint from February 18 to 24. With the hearing so close, some additional respondents/defendants have come to terms with the OEM, including Calabasas, CA-based remanufacturer International Laser Group (ILG) and two interrelated Midland Parks, NJ-based firms, American Internet Holdings and
Calabasas, CA-based remanufacturer International Laser Group (ILG) recently announced the release of OEM-alternative cartridges for the HP 826A toner cartridge family (CF310A, CF311A, CF312A, and CF313A). The cartridges are for use in the HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M855 series, a family of A3 color laser printers released in November 2013 (see “HP Refreshes the High
If Staples and Office Depot have their way, the office-superstore channel in the United States will go from two big players to just one by the end of the year. On February 4, Staples and Office Depot jointly announced that Staples plans to acquire Office Depot for $6.3 billion. Each company’s board of directors has
Once again, Xerox’s slumping Document Technology business pushed total revenue down in Q4 FY14, which marked the sixth quarter in a row that the company reported year-on-year revenue declines. On January 23, Xerox reported it had $5.03 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2014, a decline of 3 percent compared to the same
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