The legal field has been popping with interesting technology-related lawsuits lately.

From the “Disclosure in Advertising” department we have:

Lawsuit Says HP Printer Cartridges Die Before Use

A Georgia woman has sued Hewlett-Packard Co., claiming the ink cartridges for their printers are secretly programmed to expire on a certain date, in some cases rendering them useless before they are even installed in a printer.

[...]

HP ink cartridges use a chip technology to sense when they are low on ink and advise the user to make a change. But, the suit claims, those chips also shut down the cartridges at a predetermined date regardless of whether they are empty.

“The smart chip is dually engineered to prematurely register ink depletion and to render a cartridge unusable through the use of a built-in expiration date that is not revealed to the consumer,” the suit said.

This case should be interesting if for no other reason than the determination of how it was discovered that the smart chip has this expiration date.

[Continue reading Lawsuit Rundown]