- This topic has 0 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 9 years, 9 months ago by
.
-
Posts
-
Epson hits another third-party ink retailer
Seiko Epson Corp. has scored another victory against a retailer of Epson-compatible ink-jet printer cartridges, it said Tuesday.
The
Japanese company recently filed patent infringement proceedings against
CybaHouse Ltd., a reseller of third-party ink cartridges in
Southend-on-Sea, England, to stop the sale and importation of
Epson-compatible cartridges. CybaHouse imported the cartridges from an
unidentified company in China and sold them in the U.K. under the “IM
Jet” brand, Epson said in a statement.
The case has been settled
out-of-court after CybaHouse and a sister company, Nutronic Ltd., and
their directors agreed to cease selling the cartridges in question,
Epson said. CybaHouse also agreed to pay Epson’s legal costs and an
undisclosed sum in damages.
Seiko Epson has reported several
successes since early this year after hitting companies selling
third-party cartridges that it says infringe on its patents.
In June
it settled a case with Multi-Union Trading Co. Ltd. that saw 75 of
Multi-Union’s cartridge models barred from being imported to the U.S.,
Epson said. Multi-Union, in Hong Kong, sells its products in the U.S.
under the PrintRite brand. A few days later Epson said that
Environmental Business Products Ltd., a U.K. company, stopped importing
and supplying Epson-compatible printer cartridges as a result of an out
of court settlement between the two companies.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.