On Nov 1, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > http://petapixel.com/2013/11/01/kodak-wins-76-million-patent-dispute-ricohpentax/ > > Pretty short on details but it's interesting that the dispute (whatever it > was) only applied to Pentax branded products. > > > > -- > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
My reading between the lines: The first on-the-street digital I can vaguely recall was a Kodak/Nikon co-development. I assume that as one of the firsts, Kodak garnered many fundamental patents on digital capture. Others presumably have been licensing those. Including Pentax. Hoya then apparently picked up the ball and continued the Pentax-related patent licenses from Kodak. Ricoh neglected to continue the Pentax-related licensing arrangement with Kodak (maybe assuming that their existing arrangements vis a vis Ricoh products would cover them?) and got caught out. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
