Announcement

Canon's activities lead to the removal of 79 listings from Amazon in Australia

TOKYO, July 31, 2020—Canon Inc. today announced that in about the first half of 2020, it has used the Amazon Reporting Tool^* and/or letters of inquiry to successfully remove 79 listings from Amazon in Australia. Since September 2019, the total number of listings removed is 167. The listings offered third-party laser toner cartridges which Canon believes infringed one or more of Australian Patent Nos. 2014208277 and 2007205464.

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

• *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 take down and the vendor may object to it.