Straightouttaink, LP d/b/a discountinkllc / einkshop2014 / Inkpro / inkprousa (San Jose, CA)

Straightouttaink, LP is a California limited partnership headquartered at 541 W. Capitol Expressway 10-212, San Jose, CA 95136, trading under the names discountinkllc, einkshop2014, Inkpro and inkprousa. Court filings citing California Secretary of State records identify its sole general partner as Nhan Ho. It is privately held; no revenue, employee-count or market-cap figures are publicly disclosed, and no parent company or ticker is identified (ITC complaint of Epson Portland Inc. et al.; Dockets.Justia).

Operations. Straightouttaink is an operating reseller of aftermarket inkjet supplies, not a patent-assertion entity. Its own site (discountinkllc.com) describes the business as selling remanufactured ink cartridges made from recycled genuine cartridges, marketed as replacements for Epson-brand cartridges. It sells through that website and through storefronts on eBay and Shopify; Epson's complaints describe it as importing and selling compatible/remanufactured cartridges for Epson inkjet printers.

Litigation posture. In the tracked data Straightouttaink appears once, as a defendant (0 as plaintiff), in a Section 337 investigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission. It is therefore an operating company defending infringement allegations, not an NPE or shell licensor. Its appearances sit at the ITC rather than in plaintiff-friendly district venues such as the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable cases. The tracked matter stems from a May 13, 2025 complaint by Epson Portland Inc., Epson America, Inc. and Seiko Epson Corp., instituted as Inv. No. 337-TA-1451 (Certain Ink Cartridges and Components Thereof I, June 12, 2025), with a parallel investigation, 337-TA-1452 (USITC News Release 25-073; Federal Register). Straightouttaink was found in default (Order No. 10, Sept. 30, 2025), and in September 2026 the Commission affirmed a violation and ordered a general exclusion order plus cease-and-desist relief directed to Straightouttaink and co-respondent Mountain Peak (91 FR, Sept. 29, 2026). Related context: Epson previously sued Straightouttaink and Nhan Ho in N.D. Cal. (No. 4:19-cv-08240, Dec. 2019; default entered Feb. 2020), and a 2017 ITC seizure-and-forfeiture order in Inv. No. 337-TA-565 named the company (The Recycler).