Are the Respondents in the ITC Investigation closing in for the kill? Tuesday, December 11, 2018
The third dongle-gear patent dispute, initiated by Canon back on February 28, 2018, in the form of the International Trade Commission, named 49 respondents and asserted infringement of 9 patents (containing 193 claims, of which 28 were independent). The dispute has now effectively been whittled down to 3 respondents (Aster Graphics, Print-Rite, and Ninestar), 1, 7 patents (Canon has withdrawn 2), and 21 claims, of which ten are independent and 11 dependent.2