Troubled Company Kodak Sues Samsung over Galaxy Tab

Looks like the turmoil of patent infringement lawsuits is not even in the least bit over for Samsung, as its Galaxy Tab was targeted again, by Kodak this time.

Kodak has definitely stopped playing nice now that its financial position and existence as a brand is being threatened more than ever before.

What it did not long ago was begin a legal action against Samsung, over alleged patent infringement.

As some may have suspected, the Galaxy Tab tablets are the ones supposedly infringing Kodak's intellectual property.

Like all patent lawsuits before it, it will take months, perhaps years, for the dispute to be settled, one way or another.

If Kodak brings enough weight to its claims, it may receive royalty payments, perhaps even a constant cash flow should a licensing agreement be established.

This would definitely help the company, now that it found itself forced to file for bankruptcy.

Meanwhile, Samsung can add this latest move to the ever growing list of companies that have gone and/or are going after its tablets for one reason or another other (with varying degrees of success).

The photo camera brand has named five patents that, it believes, are being used by Samsung without a license. As taken from the official announcement, they are as follows:

-U.S. Patent No. 6,292,218 - “Electronic Camera For Initiating Capture of Still Images While Previewing Motion Images”
 
-U.S. Patent No. 7,210,161 - “Automatically Transmitting Images from an Electronic Camera to a Service Provider Using a Network Configuration File”

-U.S. Patent No. 7,742,084 - “Network Configuration File for Automatically Transmitting Images from an Electronic Still Camera”

-U.S. Patent No. 7,453,605 - “Capturing Digital Images to be Transferred to an E-Mail Address”

-U.S. Patent No. 7,936,391 - “Digital Camera with Communications Interface for Selectively Transmitting Images over a Cellular Phone Network and a Wireless LAN Network to a Destination”