HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that Germany-based Pelikan Hardcopy
Deutschland GmbH was found to be in violation of the German law on
unfair competition by the Cologne Regional Court, Germany.
In a judgment issued in July and finalized earlier this month, the court
ordered Pelikan to cease labeling certain newly manufactured inkjet
print cartridges as “remanufactured.”
HP initiated this unfair competition action against Pelikan last summer
after Pelikan refused HP’s request to
voluntarily give an undertaking to cease its misleading advertising. HP
had discovered that Pelikan marketed and sold new print cartridges in
packaging that claimed the new cartridges were remanufactured products.
In the recent judgment, the court agreed with HP and took the view that
Pelikan’s labeling was misleading to
customers.
The newly manufactured Pelikan print cartridges were sold under the
Pelikan brand and designated as H06 and H08 color cartridges. These same
Pelikan products were the subject of a patent infringement proceeding
brought by HP against Pelikan in Germany last year. In August 2007, the Düsseldorf
Regional Court in Germany ordered Pelikan to stop importing and
distributing these cartridges, following Pelikan’s
admission of patent infringement.
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