Defendant

Microjet Technology Co., Ltd.

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
0
1 closed
Filed
2000
Top venue
ITC
1 case

Company profile

MicroJet Technology Co., Ltd. (研能科技股份有限公司; commonly "MicroJet") is a privately held Taiwanese manufacturer founded August 10, 1996 and headquartered at 1F, No. 28, Yanfa 2nd Rd., Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. It is a company limited by shares, not publicly traded; Taiwan registry data lists paid-in capital of roughly NT$617 million (authorized NT$1.5 billion). Its own site and D&B-certified profile report 500+ employees (job-board listings cite figures around 450–680), and it states working capital of about US$21 million. No parent company is disclosed in the sources reviewed.

Products / operations. MicroJet is an operating manufacturer built on three stated core technologies: inkjet printing, piezoelectric micro fluidics, and additive-manufacturing inkjet 3D printing. Product lines include thermal-bubble inkjet printheads and ink cartridges, inkjet print engines, printers and multifunction devices, piezoelectric micropumps, atomizers and micro-coolers marketed under the CurieJet brand, full-color/ceramic 3D printers under the Cometrue brand, plus PM2.5 sensors and blood-pressure measurement devices. It operates a Hsinchu Science Park plant (front-end IC/nozzle processes) and a Guanyin, Taoyuan plant (assembly, packaging, R&D), and does own-brand as well as OEM/ODM work. The company claims more than 2,000 granted and pending patents worldwide and ranks among Taiwan's top-100 patent filers.

Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data show 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant, entirely at the U.S. International Trade Commission — the profile of an operating company defending imported-product allegations, not an NPE asserting an acquired portfolio. No Eastern District of Texas activity appears.

Notable cases. The tracked matter, Hewlett-Packard Company v. Microjet Technology Co., Ltd. et al. (filed December 22, 2000; Inv. No. 337-TA-446), alleged Section 337 infringement of six HP inkjet-cartridge patents; the Commission found a violation and issued a limited exclusion order against MicroJet plus cease-and-desist orders against other respondents (May 2002). External reporting also places MicroJet as a respondent in HP's later ITC action Certain Inkjet Cartridges with Printheads (337-TA-723), which ended in a general exclusion order in October 2011.

Hewlett-Packard Company v. Microjet Technology Co., Ltd. et al.

terminated
Docket:
337-TA-446
Filed:
2000-12-22
Terminated:
2002-04-25

Hewlett-Packard filed a Section 337 complaint at the ITC against Microjet and several inkjet cartridge resellers, alleging infringement of six patents including US 4,635,073. The ALJ initially found no infringement of the '073 patent, but the Commission reversed in part, found claim 4 infringed, found a Section 337 violation, and issued a limited exclusion order against Microjet and cease-and-desist orders against Price-Less and ABCCo.net. The investigation was terminated in 2002.