Jury Rules for Kodak in Java Patent Dispute
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Eastman Kodak Co. won the first round of a Java lawsuit against Sun Microsystems Inc. that could impact Sun&#39;s bottom line and possibly threaten Microsoft&#39;s .
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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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(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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A U.S. court has ruled against Japan's Canon Inc.  in a patent dispute over flat-panel displays, saying the company violated the license agreement it had with Nano-Proprietary Inc. .
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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 US$92 million.
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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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SUN MICROSYSTEMS will pay Kodak $92 million to settle a patents infringement case after a jury found it guilty of using Java patents.
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A federal jury yesterday ordered Vonage Holdings to pay Sprint Nextel $69.5 million in damages for violating six of its patents, prompting analysts to question whether the troubled Internet phone company could survive.
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EASTMAN Kodak is in line for a $1.06bn (Â£580m) payout after winning a controversial patent lawsuit against Sun Microsystems. A jury has ruled that Sun&#39;s Java software infringes several software patents that Eastman Kodak bought in 1997.
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A federal jury on Thursday  found that Vonage Holdings Corp. , an Internet phone  service, infringed on three key patents owned by Verizon  Communications Inc.
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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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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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Kodak is returning to court this week to claim $1bn in damages and unpaid royalties from Sun Microsystems. The court found in favour of the camera company on Friday and ruled that Sun had infringed Kodak&#39;s Java patents.
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Eastman Kodak Co. will return to US District Court next week to seek $1 billion in damages from Sun Microsystems Inc. now that a federal jury has ruled in its favor in a dispute over the Java computer language.
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia  - A federal jury on Wednesday began reviewing evidence in Verizon Communications Inc.'s $197 million patent infringement case against Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp..
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Eastman Kodak  won another  round in a patent battle with Ampex  on Thursday in a  fight over who owns the patents for digital imaging.