Looks like a patent troll (it's not Kodak, it's "MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLC") who thinks they have patents covering basically anything that uses computer vision segmentation.
MPV owns a portfolio of patents invented by the Eastman Kodak Company. Since
acquiring the Kodak portfolio, MPV has promoted adoption of technologies
claimed in Kodak portfolio and has entered into license agreements with over
thirty companies.
Indeed. FSD/Autopilot is no where near the time line that Tesla and Musk said it'd be, but it's vastly improved from when I purchased my Model 3 in 2018.
'in the US'. My father's neighbor have a Tesla (and conveniently is also a windsurfer, so I hitchhike sometime), Fsd isn't available here, and won't be anytime soon, seeing how the deployment of the beta in Belgium is going (wasn't it supposed to be in 2020?). Hopefully he won't have to pay for it again in his Next car.
I realise it's a patent troll, but even if it were Kodak, it seems a bit silly that a company developing self driving cars could be sued for patent infringement by a company who isn't even in the industry. A competetor I could understand. If you don't have skin in the game, then you don't deserve to have pieces of paper preventing others from putting their skin in the game.
Patent law needs complete overhaul. They restrict innovation, iteration and slow the pace of progress. Two things I'd implement if I were "king of the world"
- If you're not the entity which is using or can prove that have active plans to use the patent, you cannot sue anyone for using it.
- Patents last 15 or 20 years and cannot be extended, after that it's in the public domain.
Looks like a patent troll (it's not Kodak, it's "MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLC") who thinks they have patents covering basically anything that uses computer vision segmentation.