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HP wins German legal battle over ink
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German court has ordered ink and stationary supplier Pelikan Hardcopy
Deutschland to stop advertising certain inkjet print cartridges as
‘remanufactured’ products from HPA German regional court has ruled in
favour of HP in its action against Pelikan Hardcopy Deutschland, saying
the ink and stationary supplier had violated the German law on unfair
competition.The Cologne Regional Court has ordered Pelikan to “cease
labelling certain newly manufactured inkjet print cartridges as
‘remanufactured'”, according to a statement from HP on Thursday.The
US company said it had discovered that Pelikan marketed and sold new
print cartridges in packaging that claimed the new cartridges were
remanufactured products from HP.HPsaid it initiated the unfair
competition action against Pelikan last summer after Pelikan “refused
HP’s request to voluntarily give an undertaking to cease its misleading
advertising”.The cartridges at the heart of the action were sold under
the designations H06 and H08 and were the subject of a
patent-infringement proceeding brought by HP against Pelikan in Germany
last year. Back in August 2007, a court in Germany ordered Pelikan to
stop importing and distributing these cartridges following what HP
called Pelikan’s “admission of patent infringement”. The legal dispute
then continued with the unfair competition case.Pelikan has been a
supplier of ink and printing products in Germany for more than 150
years. The company sells a wide range of paper products as well as ink
cartridges. It also sells a wide range of cartridges that can be
re-filled, from companies such as Canon and Epson as well as HP.
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