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Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the this-will-fix-our-overcrowded-prisons dept.

Eric Smith writes "The Ninth Circuit has created box-wrap patent licenses. Now the label on the box that says "single use only" is given force of law, and if you refill the cartridge you are liable for patent infringement."

2 of 769 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How exactly is this patent infringment? by Battletux · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think so yes.

  2. Re:Misleading and misunderstood, as usual by putko · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just read the opinion, you lazy ass.

    Buy buying the one with the "prebate", you enter into a contract to have Lexmark, and only Lexmark, remanufacture.

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