“It was revealed today in court documents that Apple Inc filed a counter suit against Eastman Kodak on April 15, 2010,” Purcher reports. “The intellectual property patent suit was filed in the California Northern District Court”
Purcher reports, “Apple claims that Kodak has infringed on two of their granted patents [Apple Granted Patent 6,031,964: System and method for using a unified memory architecture to implement a digital camera device and Apple Granted Patent RE38,911: Modular digital image processing via an image processing chain with modifiable parameter controls] and lists the products under violation. Apple is seeking a trial by jury.”
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Point counter point. Shake hands and then back off.
Kodak market cap is 1.93 billion.
Can’t we all just get along??
Now we know why Jobs was accumulating all of that cash – to pay lawyers!
Out of court settlement in the works, cross licensing, leave as friends.
@Smarmy Bastard,
Sorry, but it would appear in this day and age that civility is dead.
Apple’s two granted patents are relevant to the cameras. The stupid patents that Kodak used against Apple were about software “objects.” The NeXT OS invented objects used in operating systems. So Apple’s case is on solid footing it appears. Portable devices with cameras are the future and Apple should take on kodak or whoever wants to tango in the courts with them. There’s a lot at stake here.
Way to go Apple. Start hitting these maggots right back. Use your friggin treasury for a change.
Bill Gates owns stock in Kodak.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ae5ayfK67YxY
@Kevin Weise. That sure is true. Civility, courtesy, respect, forgiveness even for unintentional errors – all appear to have been killed off. It used to be someone could say, “Is that how your mother raised you?” as a reminder that some behavior isn’t really acceptable and the other person should know that. But we can’t say that anymore since we are now in the second and third generations of many people actually being raised without those values at all. Many people today don’t even know what those concepts actually represent. American schools aren’t helping much either. None of this bodes well for the future.
Kodak seems to have forgotten that Apple was making digital cameras while Kodak was still cooking horse hoofs for film gel. It will be interesting to see how these play out.
Tomorrow 5pm will be another Record Profit announcement for AAPL
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ZERO debt
$43 Billion in Cash
New Products in 2010
$220 Billion Market Cap
No way 2 stop this Xpress Train onto $300B
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americanus litigatio extremus
The patent system has raised the bar incredibly high for the small guys. First you have to attempt to patent your ideas that you believe are new. Then, if you actually attempt to develop and market a product based upon your ideas, you have to worry about the uncounted thousands of other patents upon which you might be unwittingly infringing that won’t pop out of the woodwork until after you become successful and are turning a profit.
Kodak holds the patent for the CCD, which is what powers every digital imaging device on earth. Don’t speak about what you know not.
gee you think in the 60s anybody thought in 50 years “mutually assured destruction” would be best known as a form of patent protection.
By the way the CCD was invented in Bell Labs in 1969. and perfected and commercialized via pioneering work by…
wait for it…Gil Amelio,
This is nothing new, company A says thats our invention & ya can’t use it without paying! Company B finds something company A uses or has used, then counter sues. This is how business is done in America, hell, the world! Sick of all ya cry babies… how civility is gone, oh, man, remember how companies use to treat each other back in the day, no contracts, just a good old hand shake, a smile and maybe a few hours of hand holding, BHAAAAAA… that never was nor will ever be, law is a good thing, if ya don’t understand it, thats fine, but don’t bash it & call everyone a money hungry monster! Stop whining, read a law book or heck, a history of business might help some of you whiners, ya will see that this is how it’s done! If ya don’t like capitalism, thats fine, but thats the system & until someone smarter than all of us can come up with another system, we r stuck with it!
Nuff said
It’s a shame to see a one-time technology leader and industry giant reduced to patent mining to try to survive.
‘Not positive Sparky, but I believe hooves were for Elmer’s. Hides were used for the emulsion.
Kodak seems to be letting film die a slow death, but they were early in the digital photography and printing field. They even have a digital process for exposing old fashioned photo paper for creating large photo prints. Good stuff!
Good to see that the Apple lawyers are staying busy. Apple is out to make consumers love them. Professionals worry. Developers concerned that their efforts may not be approved and all other companies hate them.
Sad display of corporate arrogance going on here.
@ Spark
Apple had 4 versions of the QuickTake camera, three of which were designed by Kodak and built by Chinon.
@ @Spark
Google CMOS – it ain’t CCD, but many devices use this technology for imaging.
@TRRosen- The Doctor had help, but yes… the work he did was largely responsible for commercializing the CCD. At least he contributed something worthwhile, unlike the Diesel.
But the irony of Amelio’s work is pretty humorous, isn’t it?
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@Geez- the real arrogance is from the lazy developers themselves. Just as a commenter stated from the article:
“Apple designed those things for the users, not for you. This shows the arrogance of so many developers. That arrogance, and the lack of guts generally to stand up to it, has caused all these fake ‘cross-platform technologies’ which are really just parasitic additions to a perfectly adequate (and in the case of Apple, lean) operating system in order to save them developers effort, at the expense of the host OS and the users’ utility of their equipment.
I think, even if only subconsciously, these lazy developers might be seeing the potential end in sight of their dreams of a write once, slop out everywhere world where all chant ‘developers, developers, developers’ in time with monkey boy.
they think it is their right, and that consumers are there to serve them. It’s not just the retarding and obstructive middle-man products like flash and the java VM (why should I need a virtual machine when I have bought a real one already?) that are threatened here.”
Obviously you are new here. Apple will announce everything you just said PLUS most iPhones sold in a quarter and the stock will go down at exactly 2:00pm [EST]. Happens all the time. Use the dip to buy more on the way to 300.
Obviously you are new here. Apple will announce everything you just said PLUS most iPhones sold in a quarter and the stock will go down at exactly 2:00pm [EST]. Happens all the time. Use the dip to buy more on the way to 300.