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Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Camera Patents
KenC writes "Kodak has filed a lawsuit against Sony alleging that 10 of its patents have been used without permission. Included among the patents as reported via Reuters is electronic camera utilizing image compression and digital storage . Kodak claim the patents involved were issued between 1987 and 2003. More from Bloomberg." As reader Nekura2025 asks "Um, doesn't that apply to all digital cameras?"
Using image compression in a digital camera... I think that idea must be worth... (apply pinky to lip) ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
I'd just spent $2,000 building the damned thing, and being a wet-behind-the-ear engineer with no stock options, was broke. :-P
Dahlmann tightly grips the knife, which he may have no idea how to use, and steps out into the plain.
Can I patent the idea of when a button is pressed, something happens? Then I can sue oodles of companies for infringement. If I make it vague enough, a foot-pedal could count as a button press in which case I can go after the automotive industry as well as the makers of old fashioned sewing machines! Heck, unless you can take pictures with a camera telepathically, this can even be used against Kodak. Mwahahahahaha!!!
World domination awaits!
That's "runned" by idiots
Locals say you can develop film in the ole Geneseo River in Rocheser because Kodak and Xerox dumped so many chemicals into it.
Or, if the RIAA has taught us anything... the targets who are too young to afford defense lawyers with a good track record.
I've got to get into this new broad-patent thing! It seems to be all the craze.
Anyone know if someone has patented "a substance used to create stuff?"
Or how about; 'a method or process of converting oxygen to carbon-dioxide?'
Actually Kodak patented "You push the button we'll do the rest" a hundred years ago. I think Amazon has some 'splaining to do....
I'm amazed at your psychic powers that allow you to discern the contents of a patent entirely from the title. Were you born with this ability, or was it acquired?
Not wanting to pay up for the use of patented technology Sony has released a new line of digitcal cameras. These cameras do not use any image compression techniques, limiting the user to only one photo. 'But that's perfect', says one Sony engineer, 'cause we don't store any images either. They just come up on the view finder for 10 seconds and then disappear.'
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
SCO sues Kodak for stealing their business model... Sigh. The only thing that stifles innovation is friviolous lawsuits over "intellectual property" and moronic patents.
... its fuel of innovation and market share spent, and its core collapsing under its own weight, explodes as a SUPERNOVA. Expelling enormous gas clouds of lawsuits and IP claims with the brilliance of a trillion suns, Supernova EK2004 is dazzling observers the world over. Dr. Roland Smythe of the National Observatory commented, "This star was much larger than SCSO2003, which went supernova last year. But both are following the same progression and will soon be naught but a memory. Nonetheless, the data we've obtained from these two events will be studied for years to come." Indeed.