Eastman Kodak is suing Samsung over claims its patents have been infringed.
The US camera and printer creator mentioned the censure relates to 5 of its digital imaging technologies .
It is the ultimate in a array of obvious lawsuits filed by the definite given the beginning of the year.
Kodak mentioned on Wednesday that it was looking failure protection. That followed an statement in July that it was looking to sell or permit about 1,100 digital imaging patents.
The ultimate purported infringements add technology to make an electronic camera able of "automatically transmitting images... to a service provider using a network setup file," and having a "communications interface for selectively transmitting images over a mobile phone network and a wireless LAN network to a destination".
Samsung launched its AllShare Play clouded cover storage service, that allows its cameras to upload cinema to remote servers after they are taken, progressing in the month.
The South Korean definite could not be reached for comment.
Samsung staid a formerly disagreement in 2010 after its Blackjack II camera was indicted of infringing Kodak patents. It concluded to a cross-licensing treat that entangled it profitable royalties to its rival. Further financial sum were not disclosed.
Kodak has moreover filed lawsuits against Apple and HTC involving the same 5 patents.
In add-on it is suing Fujifilm over a separate, but overlapping, set of claimed infringements. Kodak purported that the Japanese company had done use of its technologies inclusive the "quick examination of final prisoner image" and "user selectable picture record size".
Kodak's activities add to an upturn in authorised wake up between the tech firms after December's holidays.
Over the past fortnight:
The Spanish inscription creator NT-K filed claims against Apple accusing the US definite of "extortion"; this followed NT-K's successful counterclaim of claims that it had infringed an Apple design
LG and Microsoft concluded a obvious chartering treat that allows LG to use technologies entangled in Google's Android network that Microsoft claims to own
Oracle offering to tumble obvious transgression claims against Google if US courts concluded to speed up its
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