A nearly unanimous Supreme Court told Lexmark it can't use patent law to restrict printer cartridge buyers from doing what they want with the cartridges, including refilling them or even selling them ...

Lexmark Australia boss Henrik Stensfeldt wants to alleviate any potential reseller concerns that the printer vendor is trying to stop third-party printer cartridge re-manufacturers, following a ...

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 ...

A corporate squabble over printer toner cartridges doesn’t sound particularly glamorous, and the phrase “patent exhaustion” is probably already causing your eyes to glaze over. However, these ...