Kodak Sued BlackBerry and iPhone

Leading camera companies, Eastman Kodak Co. and dragged Apple Research in Motion (RIM) to the realm of law. Kodak pointed to a technology that is used without permission on BlackBerry smartphones and iPhone.

Quoted by Reuters on Friday (15/1/2010), Kodak register complaints to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on charges of misusing the iPhone and the BlackBerry technology related methods for image preview.

Kodak also register two lawsuits in U.S. District Court of New York against Apple. According to Kodak, Apple violated a patent related to digital camera and some computer processing.

Kodak is responding to the lawsuit, both RIM and Apple refused to issue a comment. Kodak says, they want compensation for the technology used by Apple and RIM.

Kodak is suffering from the economic crisis hit, now glancing from patent licensing fees as the largest revenue source. No wonder if they are sued several companies that use patents without permission.

Today, Kodak has agreed to a license agreement with leading technology vendors, including Nokia, Motorola, Sony and Panasonic. Recently, they also won a lawsuit against Motorola and Samsung, so the two companies agreed to pay Kodak.