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Kodak Sues Sony Over Digital Camera Patents

Posted by timothy on from the itchy-lawyers dept.

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?"

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  1. Yes, this applies to all digital cameras by Thagg · · Score: 5, Informative

    While this applies to all digital cameras, almost all digital camera manufacturers pay royalties to Kodak for a license to a number of digital imaging patents. Kodak's labs in Rochester were way out in front of everybody on this, back in the late 80's and early 90's. Unlike Xerox PARC, though, with Xerox's mouse/window based PC's, Kodak filed patents on their innovations, and make a good sum of money licensing them.

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  2. Patently (ha!) untrue! by toonrmeusa · · Score: 5, Informative
    Kodak is not far behind in the digital camera market. In fact, they sold 20% of all digital cameras in the U.S. last year, behind Sony (22%).

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