Tagged With "MASA"

Following on from our report on the patent lawsuit handed to Xerox by MASA in December 2017, The Recycler has now viewed court papers relating both to that court case and to the patent infringement complaint brought by MASA against Ricoh. The papers describe MASA as a “wholly owned subsidiary of Midwest Youth A&S Inc.” and explain that it provides services, funding and equipment for youth sports organisations “to help those organisations inspire youths in a positive way”. It also...

Ricoh hits by patent lawsuit The Midwest Athletics and Sports Alliance (MASA), a subsidiary of Midwest Youth A&S, Inc. (classified as a public-benefit corporation), has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Ricoh alleging Ricoh has infringed on 3 patents MASA has obtained involve technology for enhancing color prints and for Ricoh’s customer-replaceable supplies for its higher-volume printers and MFPs

In re Midwest Athletics and Sports Alliance LLC ( Fed. Cir. 2021 ) MASA sued Xerox for infringing 20 different patents that all relate to printer related technology. The district court felt that 20 patents was too many to handle and so ordered MASA to reduce the number of asserted patents to 8 patents by the summary judgment pre-trial stage; and then further drop down to only 4 asserted patents by trial. The defendant agreed that the eliminated patents would be dismissed without prejudice...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. , April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortis Solutions Group LLC ("Fortis"), a leading provider of high impact printed packaging solutions and a portfolio company of funds managed by Harvest Partners, LP, today announced the acquisition of the Print Division of MASA Corporation ("MASA") based in Norfolk, Virginia , and its additional Print Division facility in Decatur, Alabama . Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. MASA Corporation is a national, full-service provider...