HP sues ink cartridge maker for unfair competition
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Blog: In a second lawsuit, HP's German subsidiary alleges that a Swiss printer supply company is selling new ink cartridges labeled as remanufactured units.
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An appeals court orders additional hearings in a case that pits the printer company against a competitor that makes chips that allow replacement ink cartridges to work in Lexmark devices.
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A lawsuit between two factions of the National League of American Pen Women alleges financial misdeeds, abuses of authority, libel and fraud.
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In a challenge to HP, Canon and Lexmark, Kodak has begun offering inexpensive printers and ink cartridges to consumers.
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Software maker Novell filed a lawsuit late last week, re-igniting a legal feud between itself and rival Microsoft, alleging unfair business practices.
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Nokia Oyj , the world's top mobile phone maker, filed a patent counter-suit against Qualcomm Inc  in a Texas court seeking damages and an injunction against the U.S. chip maker.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-PackardÂ is upgrading its inkjet printers to appeal to small business owners for whom a big business machine is too expensive but a small consumer-oriented printer inadequate. Meanwhile, HP faces new competition in the consumer printer market from Eastman Kodak, which introduced new inkjet printers Monday. HP on Tuesday launched the HP Officejet J5700 printer series, scheduled to go on sale this month at a starting list price of $149. Also coming on the market, in March, is the Officejet Pro K5400 series, starting at $149, and the Officejet Pro L7000, starting at $299. Each of the new printers are identified as "All-In-One," which means they can print, scan, copy and fax documents. HP is migrating down to the sub-$300 market features previously available in more expensive laser printers used by businesses and large enterprises, said Karl Schwenkmeyer, vice president of marketing for inkjet systems within HP's Imaging and Printing Group. HP seeks to dispel some misconceptions about how inkjet printers can't handle business workloads because they are too slow, expensive to maintain and unreliable, Schwenkmeyer said. He said the printers can print color pages for as low as $0.06 each and black ink documents at as low as $0.015 each. And the machines are engineered to print 7,500 pages a month without a failure. Offering new features in lower priced printers is a lot like carmakers that first put anti-lock brakes only in luxury cars but now also offer them in compacts, said Robert Palmer, director of printer research at InfoTrends Inc., a printing market research firm. "There's nothing here that is really new, but they [HP] have done a good job of putting products out that are more robust," said Palmer. HP holds a market share lead of 50 percent in the inkjet printer market, according to 2005 InfoTrends numbers, said Palmer. Lexmark International follows with 16 percent, while Dell has 15 percent. Seiko Epson has 12 percent and Canon 8 percent. But one more company is lining up to challenge HP. Kodak entered the consumer inkjet market on Tuesday with models that aim for the heart of HP's printing profitability: the replacement ink cartridges. Kodak's replacement cartridges list for $9.99 for black ink and $14.99 for five-color ink, about half what HP and other brands charge. Different models of the Kodak machines, which can print, scan and copy -- but not fax -- documents, list for $149.99, $199.99 and $299.99, depending on the features. They are also targeted at consumers and home-based business operators.
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Refilling, reselling cartridges doesn't violate patents - Tokyo court
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Eastman Kodak  won another  round in a patent battle with Ampex  on Thursday in a  fight over who owns the patents for digital imaging.
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Procter &amp; Gamble Co. this week filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Coca-Cola Co. that claims the beverage company infringed on three P&amp;G patents.
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Cingular Wireless LLC, the nation's largest cell phone provider, on Friday sued a private eye caught up in the scandal over the Hewlett-Packard Co. leak investigation, seeking to make him pay for allegedly obtaining customer call records under false pretenses.
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Hewlett-Packard said that in 2007 alone it recycled 250 million pounds of hardware and printer cartridges â the equivalent of âmore than double the weight of the Titanic.â The colorful comparisons don't end there.
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HP now uses recycled plastics to produce its inkjet printer cartridges.
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(InfoWorld) - A shareholder lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard (HP) forÂ attempting to spy on board members and reportersÂ has been expanded to include charges of insider stock trading. An amended complaint filed Wednesday in the Superior Court of California for Santa Clara County accuses HP Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd and seven other company executives of selling $41.3 million worth of HP stock at "inflated prices" shortly before the company revealed that its investigators had used questionable and possibly illegal techniques to gain access to personal records such as phone call logs. The eight executives sold 1.7 million shares of stock between Aug. 21 and Sept. 6, according to the lawsuit. In an Aug. 31 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), HP said an outside investigator used the practice of pretexting, pretending to be someone else, to gain access to personal records. Former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn and four others face criminal charges stemming from their alleged participation in the spying, which also used e-mail tracer technology, according to testimony before a U.S. congressional committee. HP also tried to prop up the value of its stock price by announcing on Aug. 21 it would repurchase $6 billion worth of its stock, the lawsuit says. "In the midst of this acrimony HP executives cashed in," says the complaint, filed by the Lerach, Coughlin, Stoia, Geller, Rudman & Robbins LLP law firm. HP issued a statement calling the lawsuit "baseless." The lawsuit "represents a transparent effort to exploit issues related to HP's recent investigation for personal gain at the expense of HP, its shareholders and its employees," the statement said. "HP will defend itself vigorously." HP acknowledged that it had obtained the phone records of 12 people by using pretexting. The stockholder lawsuit, originally filed in September, asks the court to declare that HP's executives have "committed breaches of their fiduciary duties" and to order executives to repay the amount the company has been damaged by the spying scandal. The lawsuit also asks the court to require HP to reform its corporate governance and to extract punitive damages from Dunn, Hurd and other HP executives.
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Allegations by Google that Microsoft's new operating system unfairly disadvantages competitors has revived antitrust accusations against Microsoft and opened a front in a bitter war between the two technology giants.
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A lawsuit filed against Apple alleges the company unfairly uses restrictions with its iPod line and iTunes Music Store to beat out competitors.
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Cincinnati-based Procter &amp; Gamble Co. is suing soft drink maker Coca-Coca Co. for patent infringement, the Cincinnati Post reported Friday.