Wait. Is this a company taking used printheads with ink supply, genuine HP product, and re-using them? Or is this a company that is licensed to make printheads for HP, that made extra ones to sell elsewhere?
If the latter is the claim - and anecdotally there's a lot of counterfeit manufacturing in China of all sorts of goods (I think the unusual Strida bicycle was a victim) - I see the problem patent-wise. But if it is legitimate product being recycled after use for re-use, that seems fair to me. But bad news for HP, obviously. They sell their special ink like it's holy water but I don't think you need their blessing to use a printer.
So maybe they'll just make the genuine HP printhead end its specified working life more dangerously. Say when the ink finishes, acid comes out instead. Hot acid. The product packaging disclaimer will be something to see.
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