Canon Wins Injunction against Doree Supplies in Germany
Close on the heels of announcing similar wins in Germany, Canon Inc. announced on February 12 that the District Court Düsseldorf awarded it a preliminary injunction against Doree Supplies B.V., doing...
View ArticleCanon Announces Removal of LD Products and Magic-stores.biz Cartridges from...
Canon Inc. shows no signs of slowing down its efforts to get toner cartridges it believes infringe its patents taken off Amazon. On February 12, the company announced still more Amazon takedowns: an...
View ArticleCanon Survey Reveals Preferences for Print
Canon U.S.A. found some happy news in a survey it commissioned last November of 2,010 adults in the United States: nearly half would be sad in a world without print. The Canon Print for Action Survey...
View ArticleCanon Debuts New Toner Cartridge in imageCLASS D1620 and D1650
On February 3, Canon U.S.A. announced a pair of new A4 monochrome MFPs: the imageCLASS D1620 and D1650. Canon describes the compact new devices as ideal for “small-to-medium sized workgroups in...
View ArticleCanon Announces Conclusion of Lawsuit against Do It Wiser
On February 18, Canon Inc. announced the conclusion of its patent-infringement lawsuit against Do It Wiser, doing business as Image Toner, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware....
View ArticleCanon Wins Injunction against Ines Krämer in Germany
Canon’s toner cartridge patent-enforcement campaign in Germany continued on February 18 with the news that the District Court Düsseldorf has awarded Canon yet another preliminary injunction against an...
View ArticleIDC Reports India’s Hardcopy Peripheral Market Declined in Q4 but Reached an...
International Data Corporation (IDC) released some mixed news about India’s hardcopy peripheral market on February 19. The good news: hardcopy peripheral shipments were up for the year, reaching an...
View ArticleCanon Announces imageRUNNER ADVANCE 3rd Edition Models with Security...
On February 4, Canon U.S.A. announced the debut of its imageRUNNER ADVANCE 3rd edition platform. Ultimately, the new lineup will include a variety of MFPs, both monochrome and color in A3 and A4...
View ArticleCanon Gets More Toner Cartridges Taken Down from Amazon.it
On February 22, Canon Inc. issued its 44th press release about getting infringing toner cartridges taken off the Amazon marketplace. Canon’s latest announcement indicates it got certain toner...
View ArticleIDC Finds Q4 18 Decline in Worldwide Hardcopy Peripheral Shipments Wipes Out...
On February 21, International Data Corporation (IDC) released some of the findings from its latest “Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker.” In the fourth quarter of 2018, worldwide...
View ArticleGerman Court Awards Canon Injunction against Print-klex GmbH
Need more evidence that Canon’s efforts to clean up the German market of infringing toner cartridges are heavily dependent on litigation? Canon recently filed what we believe its sixth lawsuit...
View ArticleApex Releases Chips for Canon and Xerox A4 Mono MFPs
On February 23, three weeks after Canon launched the imageCLASS D1620 and D1650 A4 monochrome laser MFPs (see “Canon Debuts New Toner Cartridge in imageCLASS D1620 and D1650”), Apex Microelectronics...
View ArticleNinestar Cartridge for New Canon MFP Follows Introduction of Apex Chip
On February 27, Ninestar announced a replacement cartridge for Canon imageCLASS D1620 and D1650 A4 monochrome laser MFPs. The announcement comes four days after Ninestar subsidiary Apex...
View ArticleNorth Africa Surges in Hardcopy Peripheral Shipments in 2018
A zoomed-in look at robust growth in shipments of hardcopy peripherals (printers, copiers, MFPs) in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region reveals extraordinary growth in North Africa in...
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The Big Picture: OEM Financials for the Quarter Ended in December 2018
In late January and throughout the month of February, printer and copier OEMs reported quarterly financial results for the three-month period ended on December 31, 2018. For all the Japanese OEMs,...
View ArticleCanon U.S.A. Says Its Business Is Stable in Unpredictable World
Several days after Canon Inc. reported a mixed bag of targets missed and exceeded in its financial results for 2018 (see “Canon Reports Sales Declines but Profit Growth in Q4 and FY 2018”), the...
View ArticleCanon Continues Toner Takedown Spree in Spain and U.S.
On March 4, Canon Inc. issued another three press releases about its efforts to get infringing toner cartridges for use in HP LaserJet devices taken off various Amazon sites. In its latest...
View ArticleMarkman Order Issued in Canon Toner Cartridge Investigation
Since late August, the industry has been eagerly awaiting the Markman order in Canon’s toner cartridge Section 337 investigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). On February 28,...
View ArticleStatic Control Declares Markman Ruling Means Its Products Do Not Infringe...
While Canon’s toner cartridge Section 337 investigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) isn’t over yet, Static Control Components sees signs of victory in Administrative Law Judge...
View ArticleNinestar Withdraws Request for ITC Determination on Remans
The big story this week is the Markman order issued in Canon’s toner cartridge investigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the respondents’ belief that a key part of the...
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