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ITC Partially Upholds Ruling Against Kodak in Its Battle With Apple

Posted July 1, 2011 at 1:28am by iClarified · 5359 views
The U.S. International Trade Commission today upheld part of a previous finding that Apple and RIM did not infringe on Kodak patents, according to the WSJ.

On Thursday, the commission upheld that finding in part, rejected it in part and sent the matter back to the administrative law judge, who will have until at least Aug. 30 to consider the issue.

Kodak called the ruling favorable, saying the commission revised terms the company had disputed and agreed that some elements of the patent regarding color and image capture had been infringed.


Kodak says it has a patent that covers a feature that can preview low-resolution versions of a moving image while recording still images at a high resolution. In March, the six-member ITC commission agreed to review the case after an ITC judge concluded that the patent had not been violated.

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