Defendant
4 cases as defendant.
Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: KODK), commonly "Kodak," is a public company headquartered at 343 State Street, Rochester, New York. It was founded by George Eastman in 1880 and incorporated in New Jersey in 1901. The FY2025 10-K reports total net revenues of about $1.07 billion and roughly 3,500 employees across 27 countries; recent market capitalization has been around $0.9–1.0 billion. There is no parent company; major holders include K F Investors LLC and Vanguard (Simply Wall St; Forbes).
Operations. Kodak describes itself as a global manufacturer focused on commercial print and advanced materials and chemicals, organized in three segments. Print covers Prepress Solutions (aluminum offset printing plates, including KODAK SONORA Process Free Plates, and computer-to-plate equipment), the PROSPER inkjet press and component business (Stream/ULTRASTREAM print heads, inks, primers), printing software, and electrophotographic (toner) printing. Advanced Materials and Chemicals includes industrial film and chemicals, motion picture film, advanced materials and functional printing, and IP licensing/analytical services; the company has invested in battery-materials coating, light-blocking technology, and pharmaceutical/reagent manufacturing. Brand covers trademark licensing. This is a real operating business, not an NPE.
Litigation posture. In this database Kodak appears only as a defendant (4 cases, 0 as plaintiff) — a company being attacked, not asserting. All four tracked matters are RAH Color Technologies LLC v. Eastman Kodak Co., filed 2019-02-08 in W.D.N.Y. (Kodak's home venue), plus a tag-along in the N.D. Cal. MDL.
Context. RAH Color Technologies is a licensing entity (individual-inventor-started; founded 2005 by Dr. Richard A. Holub) asserting color-management patents (U.S. 6,995,870; 7,312,897; 7,729,008; 8,638,340; 8,860,704) against printing/imaging vendors including Kodak, Adobe, Xerox, EFI, Heidelberger, and Dalim. Those suits were consolidated as In re RAH Color Technologies LLC Patent Litigation, MDL No. 2874 (N.D. Cal., Judge Illston). Notably, Kodak historically has also asserted patents as a plaintiff in separate litigation not reflected in this dataset.
RAH Color Technologies LLC asserted U.S. Patent 7,729,008 against Eastman Kodak Co.; the case was dismissed by agreement on 2019-05-16.
Complaint asserts '870 among the patents-in-suit.
MDL No. 2874 consolidated RAH Color Technologies LLC's infringement actions against Adobe, Xerox, and others with Electronics For Imaging's declaratory-judgment action. The NPE Litigation Database lists the MDL as involving U.S. Patent 7,710,560; final judgment was entered on September 27, 2021, and the MDL docket closed July 26, 2022.
The '444 patent was named among the Patents-in-Suit; the Kodak complaint listed '444 as Exhibit 5. A related W.D.N.Y. case number 6:19-cv-06112 also appears. No final disposition was confirmed.