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Kodak Alleges Patent Infringement by Apple as good as RIM
Files ITC Complaint Alleging Apple as good as RIM Camera Phones Infringe Kodaks Digital Imaging Technology; Also Files Suit Against Apple in U.S. District Court
ROCHESTER, N.Y.(BUSINESS WIRE) Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) announced today that it has filed lawsuits opposite Apple Inc. as good as Research In Motion Limited (RIM) alleging a transgression of Kodak digital imaging technology.
The Kodak complaint, filed with a U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), specifically claims that Apples iPhones as good as RIMs camera-enabled BlackBerry inclination transgress a Kodak obvious that covers record associated to a method for previewing images. Separately, Kodak filed two suits today opposite Apple in U.S. District Court for a Western District of New York that claim a transgression of patents associated to digital cameras as good as sure mechanism processes.
Kodak has a prolonged history of digital imaging creation as good as you have invested hundreds of millions of dollars creating a industry-leading obvious portfolio, said Laura G. Quatela, Chief Intellectual Property Officer, as good as Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. In a box of Apple as good as RIM, weve had discussions for years with both companies in an attempt to resolve this emanate amicably, as good as you have not been able to strech a acceptable agreement. In light of that, you have been receiving this movement to ensure that you protect a interests of a shareholders as good as a existing licensees of a technology.
Our primary interest is not to interrupt a accessibility of any product but to acquire satisfactory remuneration for a make make use of of of a technology, Quatela said. Theres a basic emanate of fairness that needs to be addressed. Those inclination make make use of of Kodak technology, as good as you have been merely looking remuneration for a make make use of of of a record in their products.
Kodak has protected digital imaging record to we estimate 30 companies, together with such leading mobile-device companies as LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, as good as Sony Ericsson, all of that have been royalty temperament to Kodak.
On Dec. 17, in an movement involving Samsung as good as Kodak, an ITC Administrative Law Judge released a statute dogmatic that a Kodak obvious covering color picture preview (No. 6,292,218) was current as good as enforceable, as good as that Samsungs camera-enabled mobile inclination infringed on that Kodak patent.
In a censure opposite Apple as good as RIM, Kodak is looking from a ITC a singular ostracism order preventing a importation of infringing devices, together with sure mobile telephones as good as wireless information exchnage inclination featuring digital cameras.
In a initial fit opposite Apple in U.S. District Court, Kodak alleges transgression of two patents generally covering picture preview as good as a estimate of images of opposite resolutions. In a second suit, Kodak alleges transgression of patents that report a method by that a mechanism program can ask for help from another application to lift out sure computer-oriented functions. The allegations in a second fit request to any Apple product that uses a estimate method described above. The patents during emanate in a second fit were previously a subject of lawsuit between Kodak as good as Sun Microsystems Inc., as good as in that case, a federal jury dynamic in a 2004 hearing that Suns Java programming record had infringed a patents. Kodak later staid a fit by similar to a remuneration from Sun in lapse for a permit for a patents during issue.
In both District Court actions opposite Apple, Kodak is looking to permanently enjoin Apple from further transgression as good as vague damages.
We remain open to negotiating a satisfactory as good as amicable agreement with both Apple as good as RIM, that has always been a preference as good as a use with alternative licensees, Quatela said. We find to avoid lawsuit in a chartering programs whenever possible. But when a transgression is persistent, you will act to defend a interests of a shareholders as good as licensees, as good as to promote a satisfactory remuneration that is a bedrock of innovation.
Kodak has a prolonged history of digital innovation. In 1975, Kodak invented a digital camera, as good as in 1976, Kodak invented a Bayer color filter array, that allows digital cameras to capture images in color. The association has a portfolio of more than 1,000 digital imaging patents, as good as to this day, Kodak continues to move creation to a marketplace. At a most recent Consumer Electronics Show, a KODAK SLICE Touchscreen Camera won an Innovations 2010 Design as good as Engineering Award from a International Consumer Electronics Association. These awards, sponsored by a CEA as good as permitted by a Industrial Designers Society of America, honor higher pattern as good as engineering among a years most technologically advanced products.
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