ITC may reopen Kodak’s $1 billion patent suit against Apple, RIM

By on Mar 25, 2011 at 8:46 AM
Business March 25, 2011

The International Trade Commission is set to determine at 5:00 p.m. EDT today whether or not it will review the decision in a patent infringement suit filed against Apple and RIM by Kodak last year. A federal judge ruled in January that Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones did not infringe on Kodak patents, as the company alleged. Today, that case may be reopened if the ITC finds cause to do so. Kodak previously scored big against both Samsung and LG in similar patent disputes it filed in 2008. Both companies settled ahead of an ITC ruling in those cases, and Kodak made out with $550 million from Samsung and $414 million from LG. A win against Apple and RIM would likely yield similar gains according to Kodak CEO Antonio Perez. Kodak “deserves to win,” Perez proclaimed in an interview with Bloomberg.

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  • Max

    Let me guess…RIMjob wants to make their Blackberries able to display and take pictures in a Kodachrome Land Camera style. RIMjob is so 1970′s techonology. Like their users.

    • Anonymous

      Hey, they’re no longer RIMJobz, they are RIM’mers and they come from behind [dangle preposition].

  • Anonymous

    Good, I hope the Judge orders crApple to pay 100 x’s the amount just for putting in a 0.30 Pixel iGlass and calling it a camera.

    • Anonymous

      PAPITO, don’t worry about what camera they put on the iPad 2. You and I know, even if they put a 20 MP camera on front and back with image stabilization and “Sensational Maneuvering” technology, you, I and the rest of the Goofan (aka Apple Hater) nation would have never bought it.

  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

    We can only pray that crApple has to pay the full 1 billion. There crimes against humanity need to be addressed once and for all.

    • Anonymous

      I don’t think they have that much cash! So if they are ordered to pay, they may have to close their doors! Yipee!!!! Ding dong the witch is dead!

      • Anonymous

        dont worry they have more then 1bilion $

  • Anonymous

    So this is how Kodak plan to turn a profit from now on is it? Sueing other companies? That’s as bad as a company I worked for who figured the best way to make a profit was to sell all its buildings and jam everyone into a quad-density cube farm.

  • RealDeal

    The patent system is broken. All this patent trolling needs to stop as it hinders technology. “The patent in the Apple and RIM case covers a feature that can preview low-resolution versions of a moving image while recording still images at a high resolution. Higher resolution requires more processing power and storage space” Every portable imaging device in the world has to use this technology, otherwise camera resolution would be limited to the sreen resolution.

  • Anonymous

    Kodak is lame, why dont they try working on there printers and software and get with the times. and fix there customer service issues. so they can turn profits because of innovations not through lawsuits and getting lucky with licensing agreements for products that might be kinda like theres but through cell phones. LAME!

  • JimmmyTheKnife

    Pretty simple: If Kokak legitimately came up with a technology, thought enough of it to patent it and other companies want to utilize said patented technology for their own products, then Kodak deserves to be paid for it. I realize it will probably end up costing (most of) us, consumers more money, but it’s only right.

  • Brian

    Can I sue Apple for my iPod breaking after it fell in water? : p

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