Lexmark filed its suit against SCC in December 2002, accusing it of violating copyright law as well as the DMCA. It alleged that SCC’s Smartek chips include Lexmark software that is protected by ...

Lexmark may have crossed the line into false advertising when it told manufacturers of refurbished ink cartridges that it was illegal for them to use microchips designed to allow them to operate in ...

Patent owners have the right to prevent their goods, first sold overseas, from being refurbished and resold in the US, an appeals court ruled on Friday. Ruling in a dispute brought by Lexmark ...

The US Supreme Court has ruled that a company's patent claims end after the first sale and customers can refurbish and sell old products without the threat of being sued under patent laws by the ...

Printer vendor Lexmark International Inc. has apparently failed in a carefully targeted legal battle to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to stop ...

Patent owners have the right to prevent their goods, first sold overseas, from being refurbished and resold in the U.S., an appeals court ruled Friday. Ruling in a dispute brought by Lexmark ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court said companies give up their patent rights when they sell an item, in a ruling that puts new limits on businesses’ ability to prevent their products from being resold at a ...