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Kodak Gets Half a Win in Apple/RIM Patent Case

May 21, 2012, 1:09 PM by Eric M. Zeman
updated May 21, 2012, 1:45 PM

Kodak today announced that an administrative law judge found the Apple iPhone 3G and several older Research In Motion BlackBerries infringe on a Kodak patent. However, the judge also recommended that Kodak's patent be declared invalid. The patent at issue relates to a technology invented by Kodak for previewing images on a digital camera-enabled device that is fundamental to how those devices take pictures. Kodak plans to appeal the judge's validity recommendation, but the iPhone 3G isn't available for sale any more. Further, the ITC cleared Apple and RIM's current device line-ups from infringing on the patents in question. The full International Trade Commission will need to sign off on the law judge's ruling. Kodak has been mostly unsuccessful at using its patent portfolio as a litigation tool.

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Slammer

May 21, 2012, 4:50 PM

Disgusted!

I posted this in other forums and I will post it here as well:

Having lived in Rochester NY all my life, Much of my family and most of the city's population had worked for Kodak. My Father retired in '82 after 35 years. The management may have given the company a bad rap lately, but the bottom line is that many hardworking employees such as my Dad, Aunts, Uncles, etc(some which were in the chemical and engineering/ research/ developement teams), helped make Kodak the giant it was.

It saddens me that companies that had no experience in photo imaging, waltz in and financially fruiten the legal system. To take advantage of a company that may be almost gone but shaped what imaging was and is about. So what if the 3Gs is not for sale. Does ...
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bluecoyote

Your family may have helped make Kodak great, but Kodak is a company that needs to be taken out back and shot. They are a worthless company. You should be angry at their incompetent management, not two companies that fell victim to a patent troll.

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