Infringement reports with Amazon

More Toner Cartridges Removal Requests

Canon Inc. announced the filing of three infringement reports with Amazon.com seeking removal of Amazon.com listings for certain toner cartridges sold by Innature, Northland Wholesale and WuTaiXianYunFeiYangBanGongYongPinJingYingBu.

Infringement reports with Amazon

Canon’s infringement report alleged that:

*certain model CE310A, CE311A, CE312A and CE313A toner cartridges sold by Innature via Amazon.com infringed Canon’s U.S. Patent No. 8,688,008. Canon requested that Amazon remove Innature’s listings for those products, namely, Innature’s listings with Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (“ASINs”) B07SRT4W7X, B07STVT429, B07SSSWWNX, B07SQQPLV1, B07SRTBR9X, B07SX3LHZB and B07T36CHZZ.

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

*certain model CE310A, CE311A, CE312A andCE313A toner cartridges sold by Northland Wholesale via Amazon.com infringed Canon’s U.S. Patent No. 8,688,008. Canon requested that Amazon remove Northland Wholesale’s listings for those products, namely, Northland Wholesale’s listings with Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (“ASINs”) B00DYZKAGM and B00DYZK7OC.

*use of claims 1 and 2 of the German and Italian portions of Canon’s European Patent EP 1 977 289 (“EP ‘289”) regarding certain models of toner cartridges offered by WuTaiXianYunFeiYangBanGongYongPinJingYingBu under the following ASINs (Amazon Standard Identification Numbers).

Afterwards, Amazon took down the respective products. These products are compatible with the OEM HP cartridge models and 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.

Throughout the development, sales and marketing process, Canon respects the intellectual property of other companies and individuals and expects others to similarly respect Canon’s intellectual property rights. Canon remains committed to pursuing legal enforcement against those who do not respect Canon’s intellectual property.

 

Sources: 

https://global.canon/en/news/2020/20200305-3a.html

https://global.canon/en/news/2020/20200305-2a.html

https://global.canon/en/news/2020/20200305a.html

 

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