Sun, Kodak settle Java lawsuit
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to pay US$92 million to settle a software patent lawsuit brought against it by Eastman Kodak Co., Sun announced Thursday.
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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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Eastman Kodak Co  won another  round in a battle with Ampex Corp  on Thursday over who  owns the patents for digital imaging.
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As we reported previously, Kodak filed a lawsuit against Sun Microsystems claiming that the company had infringed on its patents by implementing &quot;ask for help&quot; functionality in its Java programming language, which gave a huge boost to the company&#39;s yearly
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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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Camera maker Eastman Kodak and IBM, the world&#39;s biggest computer company, said Thursday that the two US companies had agreed to a deal in which IBM will manufacture digital image sensors for Kodak.
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(InfoWorld) - AzulÂ and SunÂ have settled aÂ patent infringement suit Sun filed, the companies said Tuesday. The suit had been pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California since May 2006, said Scott Sellers, COO and co-founder of Azul. Sun alleged that Azul violated trade secrets and patent laws. Azul, founded in 2002, makes high-capacity computing appliances. The company had hired some former Sun employees, including Stephen DeWitt, its CEO. "We're very pleased to disclose this [settlement]. This has been in the works for some time. Both sides realize they're spending a lot of money, and this would have taken another year," said Sellers. U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer, presiding over the case, had made some pretrial rulings on motions that were adverse to Sun, which prompted the company to agree to settlement talks, Sellers said. Sun tells a different story. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Sun spokeswoman Kristi Rawlinson said Azul agreed to settle because Sun was building a stronger case against Azul as the lawsuit went on. "The patent infringement and trade secret claims against Azul grew larger during the pendency of the case," Rawlinson stated. "Azul came to the realization it would be better to return to negotiations and settle the claims rather than continue with the lawsuit they initiated." The case relates to technology for improving the performance of microprocessors through the use of chip multithreading, which Azul is now using in its products. Sun claims Azul infringed patents related to Sun's prior research in the field, and that it abused trade secrets by poaching about a dozen Sun employees familiar with the technology. In a blog posting, Michael Dillon, Sun's chief legal counsel, declined to discuss terms of the settlement, as did Azul's Sellers.
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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.
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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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Sun Microsystems Inc.'s first-quarter loss was reduced Friday as the server and software company finalized the accounting for its $92 million patent settlement with Eastman Kodak Co. over the Java programming technology.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. said it agreed to pay $92 million to Eastman Kodak Co. to settle a patent-infringement lawsuit over Sun&#39;s Java programming language.
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MANHASSET, NY - Sun Microsystems has reached an out-of-court settlement with Eastman Kodak Co. in a two-year patent dispute over its Java programming language, agreeing to pay the imaging products company
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SAN FRANCISCO - Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to pay US$92 million to settle a software patent lawsuit brought against it by Eastman Kodak Co., Sun announced Thursday. The settlement comes just six days after a New York jury found Sun guilty of violating Kodak's patents, but before any damages had been awarded. Kodak had been seeking $1.06 billion in lump sum royalties in the case.
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Accelerating its push into digital commercial printing, photography giant Eastman Kodak Co. said Wednesday it is paying &#36;817 million for Sun Chemical Corp.'s 50 percent stake in a jointly owned commercial graphic arts business.
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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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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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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.