Canon Demands Amazon Product Removal – Yet Again

Canon Demands Amazon Product Removal – Yet Again

Canon Inc. continues its scrutiny of the world’s largest e-commerce site. It has filed two further infringement reports with Amazon.com – both on the same day.

Stop the sale of infringing aftermarket toner cartridges.

Canon wants listings for certain aftermarket toner cartridges to be removed. Specifically, they have requested the removal of what Canon considers to be infringing products sold by tonercreek and OFFICEWORLD_TEC which can be used in HP laser printers.

Canon’s infringement report alleges：

*certain model CC530A, CC531A, CC532A, CC533A, CE410X, CE411A, CE412A, CE413A, CF380A, CF381A, CF382A and CF383A toner cartridges sold by tonercreek via Amazon.com infringed Canon’s U.S. Patent No. 8,588,646. Canon requested that Amazon remove tonercreek’s listings for those products, namely, tonercreek’s listings with Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (“ASINs”) B07TYMYGXK, B07TVHCF7N, B0832F981C, B07TYHLZXC, B07TSCBHLZ and B07TYHG76K.

*certain model HP 126A toner cartridges sold by OFFICEWORLD_TEC via Amazon.com infringed Canon’s U.S. Patent No. 8,688,008. Canon requested that Amazon remove OFFICEWORLD_TEC’s listings for those products, namely, OFFICEWORLD_TEC’s listings with Amazon Standard Identification Number (“ASIN”) B01LYVJ6EM.

At the time of this announcement, the above-identified listings were no longer available on Amazon.com.

On the same day, Canon also filed report infringement forms with Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.it and Amazon.es based on the alleged use of claims 1 and 2 of the German, UK, Italian and Spanish portions of Canon’s European Patent EP 1 977 289 (“EP ‘289”) regarding certain models of toner cartridges offered by SCH ENTERPRISES LIMITED under the following ASINs (Amazon Standard Identification Numbers).

Amazon responded promptly and took down the respective products. These products are compatible with the OEM HP cartridge models and infringe Canon’s patents in that they “provide inter alia a non-OEM housing and a non-OEM force receiving device according to claim 1 of EP ‘289.” Furthermore, they comprise an elastic portion according to claim 2 of EP ‘289.

Filing a Report Infringement Form with Amazon is a service offered by Amazon and doesn’t comprise any official finding of validity or infringement of a patent. The decision to take down a product is in the discretion of Amazon and is based on information provided by Canon. Amazon informed the vendor about the takedown and the vendor may object to it.

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