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HP Launches Ink Patent Violation Manhunt

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ink-turf-wars dept.

BlueCup writes to tell us that Hewlett-Packard has deployed a large team consisting of many scientists and many more lawyers looking for possible ink patent infringement. With more than 4,000 patents on their ink formulations and cartridge design and a market share of more than 50 percent in the US HP depends heavily on the sale of ink to make profit after sometimes selling their printers at a loss in order to lock in the ink resale.

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  1. Hewlett-Packard of Palo Alto by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Interesting
    > Hewlett-Packard has deployed a large team consisting of many scientists and many more lawyers looking for possible ink patent infringement. With more than 4,000 patents on their ink formulations and cartridge design and a market share of more than 50 percent in the US HP depends heavily on the sale of ink to make profit after sometimes selling their printers at a loss in order to lock in the ink resale.

    I met a traveller from a silicon land
    Who said: Two life-sized cutouts of cardboard
    Stand near Palo Alto. Near it, at 367 Addison Avenue,
    Half sunk, a shatter'd garage lies, whose frown
    And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
    And on a pedestal in Cupertino these words appear:
    "My name is Carly Fiorina, queen of queens:
    Look on my works, Bill and David, and despair!"
    Nothing beside remains: round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, outsourced and bare,
    The stock options stretch far out of the money.

  2. Re:Disposable Razor IS bad by pixelpusher220 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Um, buy a laser?

    I won't be buying another ink-jet printer....ever*. I wouldn't even get 50 pages out of the inks before it clogged and reported problems, or 'empty'.

    I have a solid Samsung Laser (1610 maybe?) I bought 5 *years* ago. Still going strong. only B & W but hey, I don't need color all that often (that's what work is for...ha).

    My next purchase will be a laser 'all in one' that will be B & W too. Mostly because I'm not ready to shell out $500-700 for the all in one color monsters for my own small needs.

    *Unless you need to do uber-quality photo prints, ink-jets are relics.


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