Print-Rite rewarded for SmarTact cartridge patent

Sep 11, 2014

The company was given two awards for its patent.SmarTact

Print-Rite won the China Patent Excellent Award at the 15th SIPO-WIPO Patent Awards for Chinese Outstanding Patented Invention and Industrial Design, and also won the Outstanding Prize of Patent from the People’s Government of Guangdong Province.

The SIPO-WIPO award is a joint prize from China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO), with Print-Rite noting that the awards were “recognition” for the SmarTact cartridge. The awards were announced on 28 August, recognising the company’s “commitment [to] innovation”, and recognise Chinese “inventors, designers and right holders who are delivering outstanding contributions to the country’s technical innovation and economic development”.

Print-Rite added that it is the “only enterprise to get [this] nation-level award twice in China”, as in 2005 its 86T inkjet cartridge won the Golden Award at the ninth SIPO-WIPO Patent Awards, with the patent award said to be the “most honourable award in China”. The SmarTact technology uses a switching system to “enabl[e] a contact development cartridge to work in a development printer”, which “widens the applications for different cartridges”.

Print-Rite added that “the industry faces challenges in the future; Print-Rite takes a proactive role in the industry to enhance the competitiveness and maintain the sustainability of the industry in [the] long term”. The company announced earlier this year that it was approaching 2,200 patents granted in China.

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