Kodak wants $1B in royalties revenue from Apple, RIM

If you are interested in the details of the patent claim at issue, and the specific language that is at issue, I've provided some details at http://applepatent.com.

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Apple buys kodak, fires guy that decided that kodak could collect royalties from Apple...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-25/kodak-wins-round-in-1-billion-patent-case-against-apple-rim.html

Actually Kodak has invented technology in the mid 1970 that led to digital photography and they were the 1st to invent the mega pixel sensor in the mid '80's and were instrumental in getting the digital photography to the public and collaborated both with "Microsoft on digital image-making software workstations and kiosks which allowed customers to produce Photo CD Discs and photographs, and add digital images to documents. IBM collaborated with Kodak in making an internet-based network image exchange." I know somebody who worked with Kodak marketing and I validated this information from this article on the internet:

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldigitalcamera.htm

You can say they invented the technology that led to their demise.

Since the mid-1970s, Kodak has invented several solid-state image sensors that "converted light to digital pictures" for professional and home consumer use. In 1986, Kodak scientists invented the world's first megapixel sensor, capable of recording 1.4 million pixels that could produce a 5x7-inch digital photo-quality print. In 1987, Kodak released seven products for recording, storing, manipulating, transmitting and printing electronic still video images. In 1990, Kodak developed the Photo CD system and proposed "the first worldwide standard for defining color in the digital environment of computers and computer peripherals." In 1991, Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS), aimed at photojournalists. It was a Nikon F-3 camera equipped by Kodak with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.

The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17 , 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), the Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, late 1995), and Sony's Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).

If I am not mistaken, Kodak was one of the last big companies, if not the last to have a digital camera, because they were too tied to the past developing rolls of films on the dark room and never noticed the digital revolution. To compensate and award their incompetence and their CEO, now they want to have a slice of the cake created by those who innovate.

I having difficulties to picture out how one of the last companies to have a digital camera could have a patent in so basic stuff.

In my opinion, companies like Kodak with a great history, should be quiet and try to do as Eastman Kodak did, creating innovation and changing the world, instead of being a patent troll.

Very sad and adds more one negative point to Kodak in my score.