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A little over a year ago, Kodak opened up on LG, Samsung, and RIM (who promptly countersued) for infringing on image capture and compression technology. As a result, LG and Samsung joined Motorola, Nokia, and Sony Ericsson as licensors of Kodak tech, but it looks like RIM didn’t get nailed for anything. Lately, however, Kodak is hitting up RIM and Apple for image previewing patents. Samsung has already folded under the patent in question, so there’s at least some merit to Kodak’s complaint in the ITC’s eyes.
Unlike most cases of this sort, Kodak’s not making vague, empty threats about stopping the sale of infringing handsets: “Our primary interest is not to disrupt the availability of any product but to obtain fair compensation for the use of our technology,” and they sound open enough to sorting this out of court, although apparently Kodak has been talking with Apple and RIM for years already to figure out the situation.
[via Kodak]
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
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