Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents

eldavojohn writes "Remember back in 2003, when Lexmark tried to use the DMCA to stop aftermarket toner cartridges from being produced? Well, they're now suing 24 companies for infringing on 15 patents they have on toner cartridges. The article also notes that Lexmark has been filing lawsuits over patent infringement on formulas for their inks."

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copyrights, patents, all must be abolished.

[roman_mir]

Different topic, but same exact conversation.

Copyrights, patents, all other government regulations need to be abolished as well as any other government control of economy, interest rates, wages laws, every single thing. It's killing the economy, it can't save it. Government is an unproductive destructive force and you can see it in everything it does, this includes copyright and patent laws.

Re:copyrights, patents, all must be abolished.

[roman_mir]

Let me put it this way: US economy is dying, it is terminal.

There is nothing that can be done to save the economy at this point, nothing at all.

It will have to be restructured completely, it will be rebuilt as things are always rebuilt - with people saving and then starting their own small businesses and creating jobs and creating products and creating value, which is the real money. Not cash, actual value - products people need to live.

Government will have to shrink dramatically, I mean it will have to become negligible, because government is a non-productive life-sucking, value removing force.

In the process of restructuring people will suffer, there will be shortages, there will be hyper-inflation (created by government printing money to buy back its silly debt, because gov't will not admit it's already bankrupt now, so it will never admit it, so it will print dollar into nothingness.)

So there will be suffering, there will be struggle, etc. At the end people, separate people will restart economy by creating businesses and hiring other people.

However to create a business, you have to save first, otherwise where is the initial capital going to come from?

The large corporations you are complaining about are government created monopolies and they will abandon you, they will abandon the country where they won't be able to make money. My point is that government cannot save you and corporations will not save you. It will have to be people saving themselves, that's the only way.

Right now, as things are, government is standing on the way of restructuring and this shows in everything, from policy on interest rates, to policy on bailing out monopolies, to policy on taxing income, to policy on letting the military industrial complex to rob you of any last resources by waging wars, to policy on patents and copyrights. These policies are in the way of restructuring the economy.

Re:copyrights, patents, all must be abolished.

[roman_mir]

You idiots walking around spouting this libertarian/laissez-faire crap really make me want to repeatedly kick you in the nuts

- so why don't you come and kick me in the nuts? Oh, you won't even post here with a name attached to your comment, forget about actually doing something about things/words you don't like.

Coward (it's in your name.)

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As to your other so called 'points', I am not proposing anything, I am stating the obvious, which will come to pass probably within the next 3-6 years.