There seems to be quite a bit of discussion in our industry about the recent USPTO ruling on the invalidity of major chunks of the JPEG patent that Forgent has leveraged so far to generate some $100 million in revenue. It looks like someone finally got one of these patent rulings right. Hurrah! Let’s hope there is more of this to come.
1. THE WESTERN EUROPEAN MARKET 1.1 MARKET STATS The total Western European single-function toner/laser page printer (SFP) market decreased by 15% in FY 2023 compared...