Canon faces complaint for patent infringement

February 15, 2021

On 11 February Flexiworld Technologies Inc. filed a complaint against Canon, Inc., and Canon Solutions America, Inc. alleging patent infringement of its wireless printing device.

The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Waco Division, alleging that Canon is infringing its United States Patent Nos. 9,036,181 (“the ’181 Patent”), 10,140,071 (“the ’071 Patent”), United States Patent Nos. 10,481,846 (“the ’846 Patent”), 10,642,576 (“the ’576 Patent”), and 10,761,791 (“the ’791 Patent”).

Flexiworld Technologies Inc alleges that Canon makes, uses, sells, offers to sell, and/or imports into the United States wireless printers that infringe at least one claim of one or more of the Patents-in-Suit, including but not limited to Canon’s imageClass and imageRunner wireless printers. Other violations are allegedly derived from Canon’s printing Apps.