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Canon Aggressively Suing Printer Toner Makers and Removing Their
Amazon Listings

Feb 07, 2023
Jaron Schneider
     

Canon Printer

Canon successfully saw the removal of over 1,500 Amazon listings of
third-party printer toner from vendors that it believed infringed on
its patents as part of an aggressive campaign to protect its
intellectual property.

Since January, Canon has published four notices that highlight its
actions in the last quarter of 2022 to remove a huge number of Amazon
listings for third-party printer toner.

In just Germany, Italy, Spain, France, The Netherlands, and the
United Kingdom, Canon successfully removed 1,202 listings in the
fourth quarter of last year. The company says that its efforts at
protecting its printer toner intellectual property have resulted in
30,263 total listings removed from Amazon since 2018.

Specifically in North America -- which encompasses the Canadian,
Mexican, and United States markets -- Canon took down 106 Amazon
listings in the fourth quarter of 2022 for patent violations. Since
June of 2018, the total number of listings removed from Amazon in
Canada, Mexico, and the United States has reached a total of 3,508.

It isn't ending there. Not only has Canon successfully removed
third-party companies that it believes infringed on its patents, but
it has at basically the same time issued a slew of new lawsuits aimed
at some of the companies behind the production of these infringing
products. Just today, Canon has announced multiple complaints filed
in the United States and Germany against a company it says sells
HP-compatible toner cartridges that infringe on several of its
patents.

Of note, Canon doesn't say that its aggressive action against these
companies is for the benefit or protection of the consumer. No,
instead, these actions are just to protect Canon.

"Throughout the development, sales, and marketing process, Canon
respects the intellectual property of other companies and individuals
and expects others to similarly respect Canon's intellectual property
rights," the company says. "Canon remains committed to pursuing legal
enforcement against those who do not respect Canon's intellectual
property."

Obviously, Canon wants to make money on its printer business and is
acting in defense of that goal. Still, it has a mixed history with
this endeavor. On the one hand, Canon last year developed a method
that turns waste toner into roadway asphalt, recycling the waste into
a useful substance. On the other hand, Canon has been so aggressive
in the protection of its printer investments that at one point, its
own printers didn't recognize first-party toner due to a chip
shortage (Canon ran out of the chips it would embed in printer toner
that its printers would read as "legitimate") and the company has
been sued for blocking the ability to scan or fax when certain
printers ran out of ink.

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Image credits: Canon

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