Sun&#39;s Java Infringes on Kodak Patents
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A jury in Rochester, NY, found Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart) liable for using patented technology owned by photography company Eastman Kodak (Quote, Chart) in the Java programming language.
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Opinion: Despite Kodak&#39;s initial victory in its Java patent dispute with Sun, the company will be hard-pressed to prove it deserves a $1 billion settlement.
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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 federal jury in New York has dealt a legal blow to Sun. The jury ruled that Sun violated several patents held by Eastman Kodak when it developed its Java technology, a Kodak spokeswoman confirmed on Monday.
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Sun Microsystems has entered into a formal agreement with the Eastman Kodak Company to settle all claims in pending litigation regarding a software architecture based on the Java computer language.
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SAN FRANCISCO - With $190 million in charges on its balance sheet related to restructuring and its recent patent lawsuit settlement with Eastman Kodak Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday posted a net loss of $174 million for its the first quarter of its fiscal 2005 year, which ended September 26.
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A federal jury has backed Eastman Kodak Co. in a high-stakes, patent-infringement dispute with Sun Microsystems Inc. over the Silicon Valley company's popular Java programming language.
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Kodak, one of the largest digital imaging companies, filed a lawsuit against Sun Microsystems stating that Sun has infringed on Kodak&#39;s various patents, however, the case centered around three main ones.
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ROCHESTER, NY - Eastman Kodak Co. accepted a $92 million payout by Sun Microsystems Inc. to settle a $1 billion patent-infringement lawsuit over the Silicon Valley company&#39;s Java programming language.
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In lieu of facing a court judgment of possibly more than US$1 billion, Sun Microsystems has agreed to pay $92 million to settle a long-running patent infringement case with Eastman Kodak.
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Sun has lost the case brought against it by Eastman Kodak. The photographic giant convinced a Federal jury that Sun infringed its patents in the development of the Java programming language.
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Eastman Kodak has won a controversial lawsuit in which it claimed Sun Microsystems had infringed several of its patents with its Java programming language.
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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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Sun Microsystems faces the possibility of having to pay more than US$1 billion in damages now that a federal court jury has found the computer giant&#39;s popular Java languages infringed on a patent held by Eastman Kodak.
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This morning, Kodak confirmed the readiness of a technology with multiple patents apparently attached, that will add a panchromatic element to the single image sensors mass-produced for digital cameras.  Such an element could conceivably increase cameras' sensitivity to light by two to four times.  But BetaNews also discovered evidence of Kodak's plans to cash in on this and other technologies.
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Sun Microsystems has settled a patent suit brought by Eastman Kodak relating to Java software, agreeing to license Kodak&#39;s patents for $92m.
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Sun Microsystems Inc has found itself in the unusual position of losing a Java law suit, brought by photography giant Eastman Kodak.