HP will follow M$ example by buy up all the ink manufacturing companies,
instead of software companies, it can and then make it very difficult to
buy ink that they don't own the rights too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brandt [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:29 AM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: HP sues ink refillers

 From CNet:

"Hewlett-Packard, much of whose profit comes from printer supplies, has
sued two companies that sell refilled ink cartridges, but it stopped
short of trying to block the refill business altogether.

On Friday, HP sued InkCycle in U.S. District Court for the western
district of Wisconsin, alleging that the company's ink violates three HP
patents.
And on Monday, HP sued RhinoTek in U.S. District Court for the northern
district of California, accusing RhinoTek of false advertising by using
packaging that indicates its refilled HP printer cartridges are new. "

Full story at http://tinyurl.com/3zxbn

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
http://www.northtech.com/

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