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While an important victory against the anti-competitive uses of the DMCA and digital rights management (aka "technical protection measures") the Sixth Circuit ruling likely will not prevent companies from trying tactics similar to those used by Lexmark in the future. The Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of SCC holding that (1) some of the Lexmark software was insufficiently creative to deserve copyright protection and (2) the authentication handshake did not effectively protect the software because printer owners could directly access the software through other open interfaces.
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EFF filed an amicus brief to the appeals court supporting Static Control. The district court ruled in Lexmark's favor then Static Control appealed to the Sixth Circuit. Lexmark cited provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the lawsuit. The copyrights in question were to Lexmark software contained on its toner cartridge chips. Lexmark claimed that SCC circumvented Lexmark's access control technologies and infringed its copyrights by "reverse engineering" its printer toner cartridges in the course of developing its replacement chips.
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SCC produced replacement microchips that enabled printer cartridge remanufacturers to refill laser toner cartridges and sell them more cheaply.
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Printer maker Lexmark sued chipmaker Static Control Components (SCC).
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