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Company: HP Inc.
Current Parent Company: HP Inc.
Penalty: $1,500,000
Year: 2019
Date: April 25, 2019
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: HP agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle litigation alleging it programmed phony error messages to appear when a user of its printers installed a third-party ink cartridge.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 5:16cv5820
Case Name: In re HP Printer Firmware Update Litigation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: California
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: electrical and electronic equipment
Specific Industry of Current Parent: computers
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