Sun: $92M to settle Kodak suit
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Network computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. Thursday said it agreed to pay $92 million to settle a long-running patent infringement lawsuit with Eastman Kodak Co.
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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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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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Right before what promised to be a seven-day trial to decide whether it would have to pay Eastman Kodak a possible $3 billion for trespassing on three of its patents, Sun decided to settle out-of-court and pay Kodak $92 million in cash to get out from
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The move comes less than a week after a jury ruled in Kodak's favor in the $1 billion patent-infringement lawsuit.
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Sun on Thursday announced that it settled the lawsuit Eastman Kodak had brought against it, but the charge that Sunâs Java violated software patents held by Kodak brought to light the major impact patents can have on software techniques.
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prostoalex writes &quot;The patent dispute between Eastman Kodak and Sun Microsystems in regards to three patents that EK claimed Sun was violating with Java, came to an end.
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Sun Microsystems, maker of the wildly popular Java programming language, got handed a stunning and potentially expensive defeat in court when a federal jury declared that Sun&#39;s Java infringed upon Kodak&#39;s intellectual property.
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Satellite television provider EchoStar  Communications Corp. on Monday said it will pay $100 million to  settle a nine-year long legal battle over the retransmission of  distant TV stations to subscribers.
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EASTMAN Kodak is expecting a payout of more than $US1 billion this week after winning a patent lawsuit against Sun Microsystems. A jury found Sun&#39;s popular Java software infringed several patents Eastman Kodak bought from Wang Laboratories in late 1997.
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Eastman Kodak Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have settled their lawsuit over whether Sun infringed on Kodak&#39;s patents in creating the Java platform.
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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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Eastman Kodak EK.N on Monday said it  would buy printing technology firm Creo Inc. CREO.O CRE.TO  for about $980 million in cash to bolster its strategy to push  more aggressively into commercial printing.
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In an out of court settlement, Sun Microsystems has agreed to pay Kodak $92 million to settle the long running patent case involving Java technology.
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Eastman Kodak Co., poised to ask for more than $1 billion in damages from Sun Microsystems Inc., has reached an out-of-court settlement in a long-running patent dispute over the Silicon Valley company&#39;s Java programming language.
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By Thomas J. Morgan; Journal Staff Writer  The company agrees to pay more than $100,000 in penalties and contributions.
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AT&amp;T Corp., the largest US long- distance telephone company, agreed to pay $100 million to settle lawsuit by shareholders who sought $2.