The OEM announced the requested removal of toner cartridges offered by ESTON Store from Amazon Canada and Green2Print from Amazon Spain.
Canon Inc. announced the filing of an infringement report with Amazon.ca seeking removal of an Amazon.ca listing for certain toner cartridges sold by ESTON Store.
Canon’s infringement report alleged that certain model 125A toner cartridges sold by ESTON Store via Amazon.ca infringed Canon’s Canadian Patent no. 2,635,791. Canon requested that Amazon remove the corresponding listing for these products, listed under the Amazon Standard Identification Number B01DLP1VHG.
At the time of this announcement, the above-identified listings were no longer available on Amazon.ca.
Canon also announced the filing of a Report Infringement Form with Amazon.es based on the alleged use of claims 1 and 2 of the Spanish portion of Canon’s European Patent EP 1 977 289 (“EP ‘289”) regarding the cartridge model “CE320A” offered by Green2Print under the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number) B01FY2EP86.
Afterwards, Amazon took down the respective products. These products are compatible with the OEM HP cartridge model CE320A and provide inter alia a non-OEM housing and a non-OEM force receiving device according to claim 1 of EP ‘289. Furthermore, they comprise an elastic portion according to claim 2 of EP ‘289.
Filing a Report Infringement Form with Amazon is a service offered by Amazon and does not comprise any official finding of validity or infringement of a patent. The decision to take down a product is in the discretion of Amazon and is based on information provided by Canon.
Amazon informed the vendors about the takedown and the vendors may object to it.
