Announcement

July 29, 2021
Canon Inc.

199 listings removed from Amazon in Canada and the United States of America after Canon files infringement reports

TOKYO, July 29, 2021—Canon Inc. today announced that in the second quarter of 2021, it has used Amazon takedown procedures to report infringement based on 199 listings*, all of which now have been removed from Amazon in Canada and the United States of America. Since June 2018, the total number of listings removed from Amazon in Canada, Mexico and the United States of America is 3,015*. The listings offered third-party laser toner cartridges from vendors, which Canon believes infringed one or more of U.S. Patent No. 8,280,278, U.S. Patent No. 8,630,564, U.S. Patent No. 8,682,215, U.S. Patent No. 8,688,008, U.S. Patent No. 8,676,090, U.S. Patent No. 8,588,646, U.S. Pat. No. 9,581,958, Canadian Patent No. 2,635,791, Canadian Patent No. 2,910,527, Mexican Patent No. 308881 and Mexican Patent No. 317598.

Canon respects the intellectual property rights of others and will continue to enforce its own intellectual property rights.

  • *The number of removed listings is the sum of the number of removed listings in each country.