<p>Ricoh Company Ltd. and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan failed Thursday in their attempt to knock out a portion of the $75.8 million the company owes Eastman Kodak Company in a patent licensing dispute.</p><p>U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan refused to vacate a jury's verdict in October that Ricoh's Pentax brand of digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras fall within the scope of its licensing agreement with Kodak. As we previously reported, that verdict was worth at least $22.8 million to Kodak.</p><p>Kodak and its lawyers at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr sued for breach of contract in April 2012 after Ricoh acquired the Pentax brand. Ricoh had refused to pay royalties on the Pentax cameras, claiming it inherited a separate "implied license" to Kodak's patents through the acquisition. According to Ricoh, the implied license came out of meetings between Kodak and Pentax executives back in the mid-2000s, when Pentax was an operating company and not just a brand name.</p><p>Judge Cote didn't buy that argument and sided with Kodak and Wilmer on summary judgment in August, finding that Ricoh's sale of Pentax-branded point and shoot cameras violated its existing agreement with Kodak. The companies stipulated that Ricoh should pay $53 million in damages for those cameras, but they still disagreed over whether DSLR cameras were subject to the language of the license, which applied to "self-contained" devices.</p><p><a href="http://www.law.com/sites/articles/2014/03/06/wilmer-beats-ricoh-bid-to-undo-kodak-jury-win/">Keep reading...</a></p>
