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Xerox Settles Suit With Sharp Over Printer Patents
AUG
07 — Xerox Corp., the world’s largest maker of high-speed color
printers, settled a lawsuit with Sharp Corp. over nine patents covering
office-machine technology.Terms of the accord weren’t disclosed. The
Xerox patents cover areas such as scanning documents, chargers for
print cartridges, pre-programmed dialing for fax machines and a
document-handling system. Yesterday, both companies filed court papers
seeking to throw out the case.The companies ended the dispute through
mediation a little more than a year after the complaint was filed in
federal court in Marshall, Texas, according to court papers.Xerox,
based in Stamford, Connecticut, had asked the court to order Sharp to
stop selling infringing products and to pay Xerox for past
violations.Xerox spokesman Mike Moeller declined to immediately
comment. Kathleen Carr, a lawyer for Osaka, Japan-based Sharp, didn’t
immediately return a call seeking comment.Shares of Xerox, which
reported sales of $15.9 billion last year, fell 36 cents to $17.46 at
4:03 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. They have risen
5.1 percent this year.The case is Xerox Corp. v. Sharp Corp.,
06cv00187, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
(Marshall). To review the disputed patents through the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office’s Web site, search for patent numbers 6,236,470;
5,890,035; 5,638,429; 5,430,536; 5,339,139; 5,265,859; 5,081,494;
4,691,317; 4,627,710.

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August 1, 2007 at 12:45 PM