Kodak Filed Lawsuit Vs. Samsung

Eastman Kodak Company has filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., alleging infringement of certain patents related to Kodak digital imaging technology.

The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, alleges that certain Samsung tablets infringe patented Kodak digital imaging technology.

Kodak has licensed its digital imaging patents to more than 30 leading technology companies, including LG, Motorola, and Nokia, with all of the licenses royalty-bearing to Kodak.

The complaint against Samsung alleges
infringement of the following five US patents:

• No. 6,292,218 – Electronic Camera For Initiating Capture of Still Images While Previewing Motion Images
• No. 7,210,161 – Automatically Transmitting Images from an Electronic Camera to a Service Provider Using a Network Configuration File  
• No. 7,742,084 – Network Configuration File for Automatically Transmitting Images from an Electronic Still Camera
• No. 7,453,605 – Capturing Digital Images to be Transferred to an E-Mail Address
• No. 7,936,391 – Digital Camera with Communications Interface for Selectively Transmitting Images over a Cellular Phone Network and a Wireless LAN Network to a Destination