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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. Re:it's come to this for HP by dotgain · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Do you really do that? Wow, what the heck do you do with all of the printers?

    I'm sure he just tosses them down a hole in the ground like everybody else. We stopped giving a crap about the Earth long before consumers were printing their own photos. It's just "buy now pay later" at an extreme.

    What, none of you realised we're slo^H^H^Hquickly but surely screwing the planet with progress?