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

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 ...

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

A case that went before the Supreme Court yesterday has a very long history. Lexmark sued Static Control Components (SCC) in 2002, arguing that SCC shouldn’t be allowed to reverse-engineer its ...

Kyle Wiens (@kylewiens) is the co-founder and CEO of iFixit, an online repair community and parts retailer. Impression Products wanted to make toner a bit cheaper by refilling Lexmark printer ...