TOKYO, July 31, 2020—Canon Inc. today announced that in the first half of 2020, it has used Amazon takedown procedures to report infringement based on 692 listings*, all of which now have been removed from Amazon in Canada, Mexico and the United States of America. Since June 2018, the total number of listings removed is 1,861*. 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.
