Just because you made it, you don’t control its destiny forever. That’s not your tweenager talking; that’s the U.S. Supreme Court. In Impression Products v. Lexmark International, the justices ...

A recent court victory was handed to Lexmark, which reportedly gives them the power under contract and patent law to enforce the "single use only" policy written on the side of Lexmark printer ...

Lexmark is one of numerous printer manufacturers that installs smart chips in printer ink cartridges. If you try to refill an empty cartridge with a third-party ink ...

Score one for the little guys. In a precedent-setting decision handed down this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a company’s patent rights are forfeited once they sell an item to a consumer ...

Printers are expensive. Recycling and selling used/refilled printer ink cartridges has often been seen as a way to recoup the money that often gets sunk into the cash cow of the printer business - the ...

Refilling the ink cartridge by yourself can help save you a lot of money. A lot of people, especially those doing it for the first time, often perform the refill poorly and even end up ruining the ink ...

A nearly unanimous Supreme Court told Lexmark it can't use patent law to restrict printer cartridge buyers from doing what they want with the cartridges, including refilling them or even selling them ...

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court said Friday it would review Lexmark International Inc.’s power to prevent third-party companies from refilling and reselling patented toner cartridges initially sold by ...