News Release

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

TOKYO, April 20, 2023—Canon Inc. today announced that in the first quarter of 2023, it has used the Amazon reporting tool to report infringement based on 53 listings^*, all of which have now been removed from Amazon in Canada, Mexico 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 3,561^*. The listings offered third-party laser printer toner cartridges from vendors that 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. Patent No. 9,581,958, U.S. Patent No.11,169,483, U.S. Patent No.11,156,954, 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.

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