Microsoft, HP, IBM safe from Kodak software patent
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SAN FRANCISCO - Though a Friday patent lawsuit verdict against Sun Microsystems Inc. could potentially have a wide-ranging impact on the computer industry, the ruling appears unlikely to affect three of the world's largest IT companies, who have licensed the technology in question. Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are licensees of the software patents in question, the patents' owner, Eastman Kodak Co., confirmed Monday.
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The penalty phase of Eastman Kodak&#39;s Java patent lawsuit against Sun Microsystems starts this morning, and the outcome could cast a shadow over the future of the Java programming language.
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After a year and a half of investigation, a Georgia technology vendor feels sufficiently comfortable with the defensibility of three of its patents related to online advertising that it's prepared to sell or license them -- or to pursue infringements. Letters have already gone out to Microsoft and Google.
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Eastman Kodak Co. and International Business Machines Corp. said Thursday they have agreed to develop and make image sensors for digital still cameras and camera phones.
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EasyShare All-In-One printers, which use company's less expensive cartridges, handle documents and "lab quality" photos.Photos: Kodak's new printers
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A US jury found that Microsoft infringed audio patents held by the world's biggest software maker Alcatel-Lucent.   Microsoft has been ordered to pay Pounds 778m in damages, however the firm says it may appeal the ruling.   It says the verdict is unsupported by the law or the facts.
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By BEN DOBBIN  ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A year from now, capturing a crisp, clear image of a candlelit birthday party could be a piece of cake - even with a camera phone. Eastman Kodak Co.
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has preliminarily rejected a Microsoft patent on a system for recognizing computer files, a victory for &quot;open source&quot; advocates
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Eastman Kodak Co.  said on  Thursday it has developed digital camera technology that nearly  eliminates the need for flash photography, part of the  company's effort to make money from its deep patent portfolio.
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A federal jury in New York has ruled that Sun violated several patents held by Eastman Kodak when it developed its Java technology.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Eastman Kodak and IBM agreed to collaborate on the development and manufacture of image sensors. The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the multi-year agreement.
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Eastman Kodak Co.  is  introducing a line of desktop printers and low cost replacement  inks on Tuesday, as the photography company takes on a market  dominated by Hewlett-Packard .
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(October 7, 2004) - Eastman Kodak Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have settled their contentious legal dispute over Java programming language, skirting a trial on financial damages that could have brought Kodak more than $1 billion.
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Eastman Kodak Co.  introduced a  line of desktop printers on Tuesday that use low-cost  replacement ink cartridges, entering a market dominated by  Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Kodak has won a legal battle over Java that could see Sun landed with a $1bn legal bill. According to ruling made by a court in Rochester, New York, Sun has infringed a patent Kodak bought from Wang Laboratories
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A corporation is not the person the legal fiction makes it so much as a collection of different interests. I was reminded of this fact a couple of weeks ago when I went shopping for a laptop. Remembering that Hewlett-Packard almost singlehandedly solved the basic problem of laser printer support for GNU/Linux, I ended up buying one of the company's laptops. Consumer reports, price, and HP's listing as one of the greener hardware manufacturers according to Greenpeace also affected my decision, but my impression of HP as a free software friendly company was a large criteria.
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Eastman Kodak Company and IBM have banded together to sharpen the vision of image sensors designed for use in digital still cameras and camera phones. The collaboration marries Sony's complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing with Kodak's existing image sensor technologies in an attempt to sow a new breed of CMOS image sensor (CIS) devices that are capable of matching the image quality of charge-coupled devices (CCDs). Kodak and IBM will work together to develop as well as manufacture the sensors.