RIM, Apple, & Google in Group to Buy Kodak’s Patents
RIM joined in with a group of other companies including Google and Apple to buy certain patents from Eastman Kodak Co for about $525 million. Bloomberg broke the news about the group led by Intellectual Ventures Management and RPX Corp along with 12 patent licensees. Facebook, Microsoft Amazon, Fujifilm, Adobe, and more were also involved…
ITC Invalidates Kodak’s Last Patent ‘218 in Case Against RIM
This ongoing patent feud between Kodak and RIM looks like it has finally come to a close. It has been going on for years (Jan 2010) and was struck a serious blow in when it was deemed invalid by one of the judges on the commission earlier this year. Kodak asked for the whole commission…
Kodak Loses Yet Another Round in Patent Lawsuit Against RIM & Apple
RIM and Apple have just won another round against Kodak. For the last two years Kodak has claimed that RIM violated their patent for viewing images on a digital camera after taking them. The United States International Trade Commission released their preliminary findings on their website today (PDF). Essentially the judge (not the full commission)…
What Happened to Kodak’s BlackBerry Printing App?
I never really understood RIM’s relationship with Kodak. They had Kodak showing off their wireless printing app and printer at RIM’s booth at CES back in January of 2010 just days before they slapped RIM and Apple with a patent infringement lawsuit. That BlackBerry printing app was supposed to ship in March with the ESP…
Kodak Loses First Patent Battle Against RIM? Will it Still Win the War?
Kodak really has it out for RIM and Apple. In January of last year they filed a ITC complaint against RIM and Apple on a patent for previewing images. Seriously the patent is for “a method for previewing images.” According to Reuters the ITC issued an initial determination judging against Kodak and saying their claim…
Kodak Releases Wireless Printer – Fails To Release BlackBerry App
For months we have been hearing about how Kodak is coming out with a printing solution for BlackBerry. They were at CES showing off the solution at the RIM booth. They then proceeded to sue RIM over patent infringement in the next few days. They even managed to get DataViz to update Documents to Go…
Documents To Go Updated to v2.0004 Adds Compatibility with Unreleased Kodak Print App & More
We have yet another incremental update from DataViz for Documents to Go. The main new feature is that Documents to Go is now available in 29 languages. What threw me off is that the new version is also now compatible with the announced but yet to be released Kodak printing app which is still scheduled…
Kodak Sues RIM Over Patent for Previewing Images…
Seriously? Kodak owns a a few patents that relate to previewing images or video on a color screen. I found both this patent for pictures and this patent for video but it looks like they are suing RIM over this patent specifically. Kodak today announced their complaint filed with the US International Trade Commission that…