Lexmark Australia boss Henrik Stensfeldt wants to alleviate any potential reseller concerns that the printer vendor is trying to stop third-party printer cartridge re-manufacturers, following a ...
Score one for the little guys. In a precedent-setting decision handed down this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a company’s patent rights are forfeited once they sell an item to a consumer ...
In Supreme Court case Impression Products, Inc v Lexmark International, Inc, the court ruled that a company that sells you something cannot use its patent on that product to determine or influence how ...
A corporate squabble over printer toner cartridges doesn’t sound particularly glamorous, and the phrase “patent exhaustion” is probably already causing your eyes to glaze over. However, these ...