This Week in Imaging: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like HP Acquires Xerox
While this is of course speculation, it’s beginning to look a lot like HP Inc. will acquire Xerox – not......
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 22, 2019 · Last modified March 26, 2019
While this is of course speculation, it’s beginning to look a lot like HP Inc. will acquire Xerox – not......
Canon / Imaging Supplies / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 19, 2019 · Last modified March 26, 2019
Fresh off a key patent-infringement defeat at the hands of the U.S. International Trade Commission, Canon requested Amazon to remove multiple aftermarket toner cartridges from its Web site.
Canon / Imaging Supplies / Lexmark / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 18, 2019 · Last modified March 26, 2019
“We respect (the) IP rights of others and we also request ours to be respected.”
Canon / Imaging Supplies / Legal Proceedings / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 15, 2019 · Last modified April 18, 2019
Court ruling is a blow for Canon, as USITC rules against it.
As Amazon made it easy for thousands of Chinese vendors to sell to Americans, Office Depot could be also making it much easier for Chinese vendors to sell printer and copier consumables to Americans.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 7, 2019 · Last modified March 18, 2019
“Our stance from the very beginning of this was that our solution, marketed as SafeDrive, was just that – safe.”
Amazon / Canon / Imaging Supplies / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 4, 2019 · Last modified March 18, 2019
Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, today reported that it’s requested Amazon to remove three third-party toner cartridges listed for sale......
According to Canon U.S.A., while much of the print and imaging industry has been undergoing substantial changes, it can say it...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 1, 2019 · Last modified April 18, 2019
We’re sure many in the industry breathed a sigh of relief this week when President Trump announced that the United...
Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 26, 2019 · Last modified April 18, 2019
HP saw a boom in copier sales last year in India – IDC noted that “On the copier side, HP grew significantly in 2018 with a shipment growth of 202 percent and a market share of 11.4 percent.”
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 22, 2019 · Last modified February 27, 2019
The preliminary injunction is based on the infringement of the German portion of Canon’s European patent EP 2 087 407 relating to a drum unit and a process cartridge.
Market Reports & Forecasts / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 22, 2019 · Last modified March 26, 2019
According to IDC, the brightest spot for the quarter was HP’s positive year-over-year performance of 3.6 percent growth in unit shipments.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 21, 2019 · Last modified February 27, 2019
In its continuing global campaign to stop the sale of unauthorized toner cartridges designed for use with HP laser printers, Canon Inc. of Tokyo, Japan, this week announced two key developments.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 14, 2019 · Last modified March 18, 2019
One of the most interesting and potentially game-changing news items this week was Staples’ announcement that it had signed...
Canon / Imaging Supplies / News / Patent-Infringement
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 12, 2019
Continuing its legal campaign around the world against sellers of third-party manufactured toner cartridges, in the last several days, Canon......
3D Printing / Canon / Electronics for Imaging / HP / Inkjet / Lexmark / News / Ricoh / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 1, 2019
One of the interesting things about technology is that we can’t always see where it will eventually take us, a case in point being drop-on-demand inkjet printing.
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