Canon wins patent suit over recycled ink cartridge

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This is ludicrous!

What this ruling for Canon has done is make it very, very difficult (if not impossible) for recycled cartridges (however reliable) from being produced and sold.

This is bad for the consumer at whatever level they are, and the more ink they use, the worse it gets. The fact is that most ink cartridges sold today have a "lifespan" chip that will expire the ink whether it is used up or not, and (as I can personally attest) at $36 to $50 a cartridge for inkjet ink, for something that costs the manufacturer maybe a quarter to produce, their profits are nearly as out of control as those of Big Pharma. (aka the pharmaceutical companies, who make insanely high (12000-35000%) net profit, then claim they charge so much to support continuing R&D.

I'm not buying it, and I just crossed Canon off my short-list of printers. I will no longer recommend anyone else buy them, even if the printer is the best for their need.

My suspicion here is that the patent itself is suspect, since it probably describes the cartridge as it leaves the factory that fills Canon's cartridges: i.e.: a description of the cartridge with Canon's ink formulation in it. If this is indeed the case, then the unfilled cartridge itself is a violation of the patent!

Posted by: Raymond Danner   Posted on: 11/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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