Canon Orders Removal of Thousands of Infringing Products

Canon Orders Removal of Thousands of Infringing Products

Canon Orders Removal of Thousands of Infringing Products

Canon Orders Removal of Thousands of Infringing ProductsCanon is the most diligent of printer OEMs to scrutinise the online listings of aftermarket printer cartridges, particularly on Amazon.

The iconic imaging leader has yet again, used the infringement reporting service offered by Amazon to see thousands of listings removed in Australia, USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and France.

The OEM has again provided details on its website of the removals. However, you will not find anywhere on the site where the listings were reintroduced and put back online after it was found that some, at least, were not actually infringing, but just suspected of doing so. But that’s another story.

On October 30, Canon stated in three separate press releases that it successfully sought the removal of “allegedly” infringing products as follows:

Canon Orders Removal of Thousands of Infringing Products

  • 305 listings in Canada and the United States of America, with the total number of listings removed since June 2018 from Amazon in Canada, Mexico and the United States of America to 2,166. Canon claimed these infringed one or more of U.S. Patent No. 8,280,278, U.S. Patent No. 8,630,564, U.S. Patent No. 8,682,215, U.S. Patent No. 8,688,008, U.S. Patent No. 8,676,090, U.S. Patent No. 8,588,646, U.S. Pat. No. 9,581,958, Canadian Patent No. 2,635,791, Canadian Patent No. 2,910,527, Mexican Patent No. 308881 and Mexican Patent No. 317598.

The “Amazon Reporting Tool” is a service offered by Amazon and does not encompass any official finding of validity or infringement of a patent. Canon says it appreciates the support of Amazon in protecting its intellectual property.


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