Japan’s Kyocera Corp Sues Kodak Over Printer Patents

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<p><font size=”5″><strong>Japan’s Kyocera Corp Sues Kodak Over Printer Patents </strong><br />
<font size=”4″>Eastman Kodak Co., was sued by Japan’s Kyocera Corp. for allegedly infringing more than a dozen U.S. patents with its printers and cameras.</font></font></p>
<p><font size=”4″>Kodak will cause “irreparable harm” to Kyoto-based Kyocera if the infringement isn’t stopped, plaintiff’s lawyers said in a complaint filed Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.</font></p>
<p><font size=”4″>Kyocera is seeking a jury trial and unspecified damages from Kodak, which has been trying to sell some of its own patents to pay creditors.</font></p>
<p><font size=”4″>Kodak sought bankruptcy protection in January 2012, citing $5.1 billion in <a rel=”nofollow” id=”itxthook0″ href=”http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20130104/NEWS01/301040040/Kodak-Kyocera-patent-lawsuit?gcheck=1#&#8221; class=”itxtnewhook itxthook” style=”font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; border: 0px none transparent; padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; display: inline;”><span class=”itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap” id=”itxthook0p”><span style=”font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline ! important; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: none none solid; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); padding: 0px 0px 1px ! important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); background-color: transparent;” class=”itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan” id=”itxthook0w”>assets</span><img style=”padding-top:0px!important;padding-right:0px!important;padding-bottom:0px!important;padding-left:4px!important;margin-top:0px!important;margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;margin-left:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important” src=”http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png&#8221; id=”itxthook0icon” class=”itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon” alt=”” /></span></a> and $6.75 billion in debt, as the transition to digital photography eroded the company’s film- based business.</font></p>
<p><font size=”4″>Christopher Veronda, a Kodak spokesman, didn’t immediately return voice and e-mail messages seeking comment on the lawsuit</font><br />
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January 8, 2013 at 8:28 AM