Announcement

June 19, 2019
Canon Inc.

Canon requests removal of toner cartridge offered by BAILON GONZALEZ JORGE from Amazon.es

TOKYO, June 19, 2019—Canon Inc. today announced the filing of a Report Infringement Form with Amazon.es based on the alleged use of claim 1 and 25 of the Spanish portion of Canon's European Patent EP 2 087 407 regarding the cartridge model CE505A offered by BAILON GONZALEZ JORGE under the ASINs (Amazon Standard Identification Numbers) B018W4C0I0, B018W4C12U, B018W4C1O8, B018W4C28S, B018W4C2WY, and B018W4C3O6. Afterwards, Amazon took down the respective product. This product is compatible with the OEM HP cartridge model CE505A and provides inter alia a non-OEM coupling member, a non-OEM drum as well as a non-OEM housing.

Filing a Report Infringement Form with Amazon is a service offered by Amazon and does not comprise any official finding of validity or infringement of a patent. The decision to take down a product is in the discretion of Amazon and is based on information provided by Canon.

Amazon informed the vendor about the takedown and the vendor may object to it.