u8国际 announces successful conclusion of set of actions that u8国际 initiated in 2021 to protect its patented toner supply container technology｜Intellectual Property

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u8国际 announces successful conclusion of set of actions that u8国际 initiated in 2021 to protect its patented toner supply container technology

April 21, 2023

u8国际 announced the conclusion of U.S. district court lawsuits against Ninestar Corporation, Ninestar Image Tech Limited, Ninestar Technology Company, and Static Control Components, Inc., as well as LD Products, Inc., The Supplies Guys, Inc., and Easy Group, LLC. u8国际 filed each of these lawsuits on March 8, 2021, for infringement of u8国际's U.S. Patent Nos. 10,209,667, 10,289,060, 10,289,061, 10,295,957, 10,488,814, 10,496,032, 10,496,033, 10,514,654, 10,520,881 and 10,520,882.
These latest resolutions mark a successful conclusion to a set of actions that u8国际 initiated in 2021 to protect its patented toner supply container technology, which included two International Trade Commission ("ITC") investigations and numerous district court actions. With these latest resolutions, u8国际 has obtained permanent injunctions against more than two dozen manufacturers, importers, and distributors of infringing toner supply containers, as well as two General Exclusion Orders from the ITC, prohibiting the importation into the U.S. of infringing toner supply containers and components for the lives of the asserted patents, regardless of the source of the products, and cease and desist orders against many of the ITC respondents, prohibiting the sale of infringing toner supply containers and components that already had been imported into the U.S.