Lexmark is one of numerous printer manufacturers that installs smart chips in printer ink cartridges. If you try to refill an empty cartridge with a third-party ink ...
Score one for the little guys. In a precedent-setting decision handed down this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a company’s patent rights are forfeited once they sell an item to a consumer ...
In Supreme Court case Impression Products, Inc v Lexmark International, Inc, the court ruled that a company that sells you something cannot use its patent on that product to determine or influence how ...