Kodak wins Java patent suit
Graeme Wearden,
CNet News.com,
Oct 04, 2004
Could Kodak own object oriented programming? That's apparently what a U.S. judge thinks as he awarded an absolutely outrageous victory to the photography company in a lawsuit against Sun. Kodak maintained that the core technology used in Java - "the method where an application 'asked for help' from another application" - violated a patent it bought from Wang in 1997, several years aftr Java was created. Kodak is seeking a billion dollars in damages. "Software patents will destroy the industry in the U.S.," writes Groklaw's Pamela Jones. "The rest of the world will out-innovate U.S. companies, because they won't be running with the patent ball-and-chain attached to their ankles, holding them back.
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