An appeals court in the US ruled on Monday that Eastman Kodak Company didn’t violate Apple’s digital imaging patents while hearing a case filed by Apple with the US International Trade Commission.
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, without issuing a formal opinion, affirmed a ruling by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) from July 2011 that an Apple patent was not infringed, according to Bloomberg.
Kodak spokesman Chris Veronda said in a statement the court has affirmed that Apple’s legal position in this matter was without merit.
"Our position has consistently been that this dispute reflected Apple’s strategy of raising legal arguments to distract from Kodak’s central assertion that Apple and others have repeatedly violated our intellectual property rights," Chris added.
In March, Kodak sought court approval to investigate Apple’s patent litigation claims and said it disagrees with Apple’s bid to restart patent litigation.
The latest verdict comes just after Kodak lost another patent infringement case against Apple and RIM.
In its order, ITC has upheld a May ruling against Eastman Kodak Company in its patent case against Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple on a patent for previewing digital images.
Kodak said it would appeal the ruling.
Kodak had earlier secured permission from the US bankruptcy court earlier this month to sell more than 1,100 patents including 700 patents related to image capture, processing and transmission technologies used in digital cameras, smartphones and tablets.
