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Between Kodak and Sony, it comes temporarily no longer good. The competitors on the what that concerned murderous digicammarket are in a vehement patent fight involved that in courts are fought out.

Kodak open last week all the fire on Sony, and the Japanese electronics giant hits now back at the same time a charge by an American court. Sony isof the largest manufacturers of digital cameras with a world-wide market share of approximately 20 per cent. In the charge by a federal court in New Jersey puts the business that Kodak ten Sony-patents on the territory of digital cameras has damaged.,.

“It goes technically high-minded patents that among many the processing of digital images simplify”, tells a Sony-spokesman. Sony do not asks an after specified damages and want that the right Kodak prohibits to damage the patents further.

Sony's charge follows on a recently through Kodak submitted affair in which the American business on its turn maintains that the Japanese competitor ten Kodak-patents on the territory of digital photography has damaged. Hereby will the going round patents for beeldcompressie and digital raise of images.

According to Sony is the charge no direct answer and turns it in the second affair other patents then the in the Kodak-charge named patent violations. Kodak-spokesman Gerard Meuchner wanted not to say was, to give comment, since he to own on the height of Sony's charge. Kodak has closed already licentieovereenkomsten with rivals Olympus and Sanyo.