Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Eastman Kodak Company ("Kodak") is a publicly traded manufacturer headquartered in Rochester, New York, at 343 State Street. Founded by George Eastman in 1880 and incorporated in New Jersey in 1901, it trades on the NYSE under KODK. Per its FY2024 Form 10-K, Kodak employs roughly 3,900 people across 29 countries and reported net revenues of about $1.043 billion, down 7% from $1.117 billion in 2023.
Products / operations. Kodak reports three segments. Print covers digital offset plates and computer-to-plate imaging (SONORA process-free plates), the PROSPER and ULTRASTREAM continuous-inkjet press lines, electrophotographic/toner production presses, VERSAMARK inkjet systems, inks, software, and services. 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 been investing in film manufacturing capacity and a cGMP pharmaceutical facility. Brand is a trademark-licensing business. "All Other" reflects the Eastman Business Park industrial complex, a 1,200-plus-acre site in Rochester. Kodak is an operating company, not a patent-holding shell.
Patent-litigation posture. In the tracked data Kodak appears solely as a defendant (one case, zero as plaintiff), consistent with an operating company being targeted rather than an assertive licensor. It does not show the multi-plaintiff-case, zero-defendant pattern typical of a non-practicing entity.
Tracked case. RAH Color Technologies LLC v. Eastman Kodak Company was filed 2019-02-08 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York (Rochester) — Kodak's home district, not a plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern District of Texas. RAH Color Technologies, an entity associated with inventor Richard A. Holub, asserted color-imaging and color-management patents against a range of technology and printing firms, including Adobe, Xerox, Electronics For Imaging, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, Dalim Software, Microsoft, and Samsung; many of those suits were consolidated in Multidistrict Litigation No. 2874 in the Northern District of California. Kodak's case is not reported as part of that MDL consolidation.
The '704 patent was named as one of the patents-in-suit, along with the '870, '897, '008, '340, etc. The outcome was not confirmed in the material reviewed; filed in the same 2019 wave as the Adobe IPRs.