Apple Wants To Sue Kodak

Apple wants to sue Kodak over patent infringement. Since Kodak is in Chapter 11, Apple has to ask the court which has supervised the process. The suit is part of a very long line of litigation over smartphone hardware and software. The suits threaten to make the legal system more of the determining factor in smartphone market share than consumers.

At this point, Kodak, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Samsung, and Motorola–at least– have filed claims against one another. One of the aspects of these suits is to block some sales of products altogether. If one of the major tech firms gets such a judgment against another, it could entirely change the market place. Some of the actions have already been a success. Microsoft collects royalties from a number of smartphone companies which use the Google Android OS because Redmond has convinced them that the Google software uses some of its IP. Apple and Samsung are in hardware feature disputes in nations as distant from one another as Australia and Germany.

According to Reuters

In a court filing on Tuesday in New York federal bankruptcy court, Apple said it wanted to file a complaint against Kodak at the International Trade Commission.

Apple said the suit would seek to bar Kodak from importing various products, such as printers and digital cameras, that it believes infringes its patents