Kodak Wins Initial Ruling in Patent Countersuit by Apple

[samcraig]

So what. No effect to Apple. Everything that is critical, Apple already has rights to.

Great post.. only... if Apple had won - I guarantee you'd be singing another tune, right?

Predictable post from predictable posters.

 

[philr5150]

Oh, and Apple should definitely buy Kodak and their huge patent collection and then collect royalties from all of their competitors. That would be ingenious and very Steve Jobs-like.

Really? Bill Gates did that and the world called him a sonofabitch. Jobs do it and it's a stroke of genius?

It's called patent-trolling. Enough companies already doing that. Apple should just concentrate on making functional, cool-looking devices.

 

[thermodynamic]

Man, I love Apple and all, but it's funny that they think they can somehow beat the inventors of the digital camera in such a way that Apple comes out completely on top.

I know this legal stuff involves a lot of give and take and there's never a total winner, but surely Kodak's got the upper hand in this particular fight, yeah?

Ironic. Kodak may have invented the digital camera, but their consumer and prosumer models I always found to be poor in performance, especially when compared to Nikon and Canon. (dpreview.com is an impeccable resource, if you don't mind my namedropping...) Oh, Kodak had some nifty features, but they're worthless if there are image quality issues (poor gamut, blur, digital noise, etc.)

 

[thermodynamic]

Really? Bill Gates did that and the world called him a sonofabitch. Jobs do it and it's a stroke of genius?

It's called patent-trolling. Enough companies already doing that. Apple should just concentrate on making functional, cool-looking devices.

Agreed.

They have the "cool" factor down and by a considerable distance.

Functionality is B+ or A- in my book. Getting h.264 hardware acceleration for OS X with ATi GPUs would make it an "A" all by itself, as that's the only real quibble I've got. Given how much effort Apple put into h.264, it stands to reason they will work on hardware acceleration for OS X. ATi won me over a couple of years ago for having superior GPUs (pity their CPUs are still well behind Intel's models, though... 🙁 ).

 

[ciTiger]

Nothing is decided yet... This things take ages to get anywhere...

 

[tinman0]

Or for once they could just pay people for inventing stuff.

They do. But look at the number of MacRumor readers who don't seem to like Apple protecting it's patent portfolio.

This is a very odd forum where all the Mac fans seem to cheer on anyone but Apple.....

 

[caspersoong]

This is so sad. But Kodak will never win.

 

[Dbrown]

Kodak is the inventor the digital camera and wants to get paid for its invention. Other companies have settled and paid Kodak. RIM, I can understand why they don't want to pay. But what's apple's excuse? Apple is one of the richest, most profitable corporations in the world, and they want to weasel out of paying Kodak what is rightfully theirs? Apple is the greediest company out there, which is no surprise considering how greedy the CEO is.

 

[HyperZboy]

Apple originally sold Kodak digital cameras under the Apple brand name.

How could Apple possibly weasel out of this lawsuit without paying any patent royalties with any credibility left?

And I say that regardless of what you think of Kodak yesterday or today and/or what Kodak's motives are.
That's really an irrelevant issue.

Other companies have paid Kodak. Own up Apple. Otherwise you're a THIEF!

 

[b0blndsy]

This is so sad. But Kodak will never win.

They have already won the first round and I guess this lawsuit will settle outside.