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Can't Innovate? Litigate! Kodak Goes After Apple, RIM For Patent Infringement In Both Courts And ITC
from the but-of-course dept
We actually had some high hopes for Kodak not to go down this road, as it had shown some desire to actually focus on innovation, rather than going the litigation route, but apparently that wasn't working. As a bunch of you have sent in, Kodak has decided to go after both Apple and RIM for patent infringement -- and like so many these days, it's going for a double dip by filing a lawsuit in the courts and separately using the ITC loophole as well. How often do we see this? A company with a legacy business that is under threat of innovation... and it suddenly starts focusing on patent lawsuits rather than concentrating on actually adapting. Sure, it can try to do both at once, but it's rare to see that happen. Once the company breaks out the patent lawsuits, it's almost screaming out that its innovation efforts aren't very successful.
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Kodak The New Poloroid
Just like Bell & Howell.
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Something else to note is that Kodak was the innovator in digital cameras and most every maker of digital cameras and camera phones has a licensing agreement with Kodak.
This may seem like the typical I have patents and want to sue because you used them, but this might also be the rare occasion where the suing company is actually in the right.
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Apple is not making cameras. They are making phones, music players, and computers (they still make those, I think). What they have done is innovative. Yes, they built on another technology that Kodak came up with first, but why should Kodak get anything from this?
I understand Kodak getting paid for it's innovation by another camera company, but someone in a completely different market? It just looks like a tax on success to me.
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really mean
What you really mean is "Can't invent? Steal!!". Apple and RIM have a long history of theft. They are pure pirates.
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Kodak, and innovation.
Kodak has transformed itself to a purely digital imaging company now for some time and a lot of their technology has made it into movies and the like. Their consumer presence isn't there as much, but their print paper for doing photoprints are some of the best out there.
This isn't a case of someone suing because they couldn't innovate, this is a case of a company suing others for 'not' paying up when they have innovated.
Everyone else out there got a license to technology for digital imagining held by a company that does digital imaging. Odd... that doesn't sound bad at all.
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So how again are they not making cameras?
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Re: Kodak, and innovation.
“I skimmed over the patent, can't their complaint also apply to anything the with a ccd sensor like a webcam(like the one’s built in to netbooks and notebooks)? I skimmed over the patent, can't their complaint also apply to anything the with a ccd sensor like a webcam(like the one’s built in to netbooks and notebooks)?”
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Another example of a ridiculous patent, and a ridiculous company trying to enforce it.
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Re: Kodak, and innovation.
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What You Do with a Patent
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No one said they can't make a return on their investment. They should just do so in the marketplace by selling products and services.
You do the research to come up with an invention (and Kodak has been one of the leading innovators in the patent literature for decades)so that you can use the innovation in your products or charge others to use it in theirs. That's the whole idea of patents: to ecourage people to invent by giving them exclusive rights to regulate how others will use that invention.
Yes. That's the idea. In practice... not so much. It's used as a way to stop competition and slow down innovation.
Complaining when a company exercises its patent rights is so silly it shouldn't even be a topic of discussion.
Telling people what they can and cannot discuss seems like a sillier topic for discussion, does it not?
Read up on how patents are abused and then come back and tell us if we shouldn't be discussing it.
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Patent trolls
Kodak researches, innovates, patents, designs, and sells. They also ask for payment for use of their patents. What's the problem?
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Kodak Playsport
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Apple to close down soon?
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maybe a follow up?
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It makes you think
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