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When police entered Apartment 213 last week, they were shocked to find a freezer covered with Polaroid photographs of mutilated men. Inside they discovered two severed heads and one more stashed in the refrigerator. A closet and filing cabinet yielded more human skulls and a kettle containing what are thought to be decomposing hands and a male genital organ. Various body parts were strewn around the apartment, as were bottles of acid and chemical preservatives...
...widening -- U.S. companies filed more than 5,700 intellectual- property lawsuits last year in contrast to 3,800 in 1980 -- and the stakes can be enormous. In the biggest patent-infringement case to date, Eastman Kodak was ordered last October to pay $900 million for infringing on seven Polaroid instant-photography patents. In a $100 million trademark suit, Mirage Studios, creator of the hugely popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters, is demanding that AT&T refrain from using such terms as turtle power and cowabunga in a 900-number telephone service for kids. In a far- reaching copyright case, book...
...Polaroid is a company built on instant gratification, but its grievance with Kodak has required enormous patience. A federal court in Boston has ordered Eastman Kodak to pay Polaroid $910 million in damages in the largest patent- infringement award in history. The decision is the culmination of a 1976 lawsuit in which Polaroid charged Kodak with violating patents on instant cameras and film. The amount of damages has been at issue since 1985, when the court ruled that Kodak had infringed on seven patents and ordered the company out of the instant-camera business...
...Polaroid, whose founder Edwin Land introduced instant photography in 1947, had asked for $12 billion in damages. But Kodak offered to pay only $177 million. Industry experts, who predicted a settlement of $1 billion to $2 billion, think Polaroid will appeal the decision and seek higher damages. Says Brenda Landry, an analyst for Morgan Stanley: "In terms of the amount of sales and patents involved, it doesn't seem very big." Many experts viewed the ruling as a modest victory for Kodak, which might have been forced to sell off assets if the award had exceeded $1 billion...
...subtlety and taste. At the length of a good ghost story, he is amusing and enjoyable with spooky stuff about, for example, an airliner, most of whose passengers disappear as it flies, leaving behind (wow!) their tooth fillings and pacemakers; and a well-sketched village miser who steals a Polaroid camera that obstinately produces shots of (eek!) a savage...