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20 Jul 2007
HP has settled its lawsuit against three printer cartridge refill vendors accused of patent violation.
HP filed the original complaint last November in a Düsseldorf district court.
The company alleged that German firm InkTec GmbH and its parent company InkTec Ltd of Korea had used ink in its refill kits that violated two of HP's patents on ink formulas.
A third German company, PCE Group, also sold the InkTec kits and was included in the settlement.
All three companies admitted to infringing on HP's patents. They will pay HP an undisclosed sum and will be barred from selling the offending kits. The companies will also be pulling any offending kits currently on the market.
Michael Hoffman, senior vice president of HP's supplies, imaging and printing group, said: "We are pleased to have resolved this matter quickly without extensive litigation and will continue to monitor InkTec and others for possible patent infringement as part of our ongoing worldwide testing and enforcement efforts."
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HP Ripoff
Wonder what happened on the lawsuit filed by a California woman who maintained that HP prematurely required users to purchase new ink cartridges before the old ones were empty. I bought a new HP1200D business printer and the ink cartridges I had would not work because the cartriges I had from my old HP1100 still were full of ink but were outdated. That is tantamount to fraud.. HP is making a fortune on their ink products. There is no need to bilk their customers the way they do. This will be my last HP product..
Posted by: Roger Lenneville 17 Aug 2007
Bad day
That's a bad day for consumers.
Posted by: Jon Leighton 25 Jul 2007
Hp settles
I wonder when printer companies will have to put the appx price of their ink cartridges wth the printers they sell?
Posted by: Richard Kearney 21 Jul 2007