Canon : activities lead to the removal of 2,224 listings from Amazon i …
February 06, 2022 at 08:08 pm EST
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TOKYO, February 7, 2022-Canon Inc. today announced that in the fourth quarter of 2021, it has used the Amazon Reporting Tool*, letters of inquiry and/or information letters to successfully remove 2,224 listings** from Amazon in Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands and Turkey. Since June 2018, the total number of listings removed from Amazon in Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands and Turkey is 26,306**. The listings offered third-party laser toner cartridges from vendors which Canon believes infringed one or more of European Patent No.2 087 407, European Patent No. 2 137 577 ,European Patent No. 1 977 289, European Patent 3 470 931 and European Patent No.3 270 230.
Canon respects the intellectual property rights of others and will continue to enforce its own intellectual property rights.
Country
Number of removed listings
Germany
386
Italy
382
Spain
382
United Kingdom
305
France
402
The Netherlands
359
Turkey
8
*The "Amazon Reporting Tool" is a service offered by Amazon and does not encompass any official finding of validity or infringement of a patent. Canon appreciates the support of Amazon in protecting its intellectual property.
**The number of removed listings is the sum of the number of removed listings in each country.
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Canon Inc. specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of consumer printing materials and electronic equipment. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- printers (54.8%): laser printers, color printers, etc.;
- imaging equipment (19.4%): digital cameras, digital camcorders, inkjet printers, scanners, broadcasting materials, etc.;
- medical equipment (12.4%);
- other (13.4%): mask aligners by projection, industrial equipment, etc.
At the end of 2022, the group had 42 industrial sites located mainly in Japan (29).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (21.5%), Asia and Oceania (21.8%), Americas (31.1%) and Europe (25.6%).