Printer maker Lexmark has found an unusual weapon to thwart rivals from selling replacement toner cartridges: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This lawsuit is ...

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

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 ...

Doug Kari is a lawyer, business executive, and freelance writer in Southern California. The intellectual property interests are at it again, trying to leverage their rights to take away yours. No one ...

There are dozens of different printers in Lexmark's X line, and they vary widely. The X543DN, for example, is a laser printer for which you would buy toner, not ink cartridges. Even the X-series ...