Monday 13 June 2011

HP Receives Favourable Ruling on Patent Infringements

HP follows in Epson's footsteps and is awarded a favourable ruling from US international Trade Commission on the sale and importation of inkjet printer cartridges that infring on its patents.
Like Epson HP lodged a complaint last June with the ITC with the aim to ban imports of ink cartridges that they said infringed on their patents.
The ITC decided that Microjet Technology co. directly violated HP's patents and that Asia Pacific Microsystems attributed to that infringement.
This may affect those looking for cheap ink cartridges  for their HP printers as it may well pave the way for HP to agressively pursue and prevent 3rd party companies from producing cartridge compatible with their printers.

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