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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and strikes sunday october 13, 1985 growing up Lisa King of fort  Fla holds her daughter Kenya who appear to be bored with All the attention. As a i9-Ock-Early premature baby Kenya called a Miracle baby cig had Only 18 ounces and Nas Lovi inches Long. Kodak loses decision to Polaroid Boston a a Federal judge Friday Barre Eastman Kodak co. From making or Selling instant cameras or film like those produced by Polaroid corp.,climaxing a nine year Patent Battle Between the photography giants. The ruling by . District judge Rya Zobl Fol Lowed her sept. 9 ruling that Kodak had infringed on seven Polaroid patents. Zobl on Friday granted a permanent injunction against Eastman Kodak barring manufacture sate or use of instant cameras or film that infringe on patents held by Polaroid. Polaroid had filed suit after Kodak introduced a instant photography system ending Polaroid s 30-year monopoly in the Field. Of the 10 Patent cited by Polar Oid in the suit six covered rollers gears and other emmy impostor fined placed on probation Pasadena Calif. Up an impostor who rushed on the stage of the emmy awards telecast and accepted actress Betty Thomas prize has been fined$170 and placed on informal probation for six months. Barry Bremen 38, of West Bloomfield Mich., who also has posed As an nil team cheerleader and sneaked into the new York Yankees learn picture pleaded no contest to interfering with an event a municipal code infraction. He was sentenced by municipal court judge Phillip Argento. Fireman walked on stage during the nationally Tele Vised 37lh annual emmy awards show sept. 22 and claimed he was accepting the Best supporting actress award for Thomas of Hill Street blues. He told presenter it scr Graves the audience at the Pasadena civic auditorium and millions of to viewers that Thomas was absent. Thomas however was in the audience. She later joked thai the impostor was a hard act  Bremen was arrested and led away in  officials said he had a $300 ticket to the ceremonies and apparently Gol backstage by telling guards he worked for an Abc affiliate. Mechanical parts and four covered chemical formula involved with the Workings of instant film. Kodak had argued that the elements of Polaroid ssx-70 camera which produces fast dry color prints were part of the photographic state of the Art a least a decade before Polaroid introduced the product. Edwin land founder of Polaroid testified that the patents including three of his own would not have been obvious to someone skilled in the  a separate trial on damages requested by Polaroid will be scheduled later said Sam vanes a spokesman for the Cambridge based company. Eastman Kodak based in Rochester n.y., has never disclosed its sales or profits in instant photography or revealed How Many people arc employed in this part fits business. The company s chief spokesman. Hank Kaska was not available for comment and other spokesmen could not be reached either. Eugene g. Glazer a vice president of Dean Witter Reynolds inc. And a specialist in Kodak said consumer sales of instant cameras and film Are in the Low hundreds of millions for Kodak whose sales last year were $10.6 billion. Polaroid reported sales of $1.27billion last year. More important for Kodak Glazer said is the Prospect that the injunction could affect Kodak s entry into electronic imaging which could become a huge Busi Ness. Instant film technology is needed to produce hard copies from electronic cameras Glazer said. Kodak had argued that Polaroid stockpiled a hug inventory of look alike patents differing in Only minor and predictable ways from each other for the purpose of keeping Competition out. The lawsuit covered the Ek-4 and Ek-6 instant Cam eras that Kodak introduced in 1976. Since then both companies have introduced new products including cameras for making instant transparencies. Al most Glazer estimates Kodak has 25 percent of the Market for instant cameras and film Down from a Peak of 35 to 40 percent. Over the last nine years Glazer said Kodak has probably lost Money on instant cameras but probably is currently making a profit. Instant photography is one of 18 new business unit set up within Kodak s photographic and information management division. Minnesota social club ends 102-year-old male Only Rule Duluth. Minn. A members of the Kitchi Gamma club the oldest social club in Minnesota have broken a 102 year tradition and voted to allow women to join. A similar measure was Defeated at the annual meeting last year the first time the Issue was brought to a Vole. The 101-year-old Minneapolis club was opened to women members in 1976. Shorn women complain of Man posing As Magazine s rep Toledo. Ohio a a Man who identified Himsel fas a fashion Magazine representative persuaded Young women in four slates to get haircuts while he videotape the process Magazine officials say. Young miss a fashion Magazine has receive complaints from Toledo Atlanta. Michigan and Virginia about the Man who arranged the haircuts by saying he worked for the  s a lot of weird people in this world this Guy is certainly one of them said Milt Franks publisher of the 775.000-circulation Magazine. Gladys Glickman attorney for the Magazine Sai Young miss had never heard about the Man until complaints began coming in. Girl 4, attacked and killed by chained pit Bull terrier Oregon City Ore. A a pit Bull terrier at tacked and killed 4-Ycar-old Jessica sue Huhn when she fell from a backyard deck into the area where the dog was chained authorities said. Deputy Floyd Marsh of the Clackamas county sheriff department said the dog bit through the child s jugular vein. The girl was pronounced dead at mount Hood medical  said the child was playing on the backyard deck and Felt about three feet to the ground where she was attacked. The child s Mother beat the dog away he said. The dog s owner Todil Kagler. 21. Killed it As soon As he arrived Home and Learned of the attack Marsh said. Victim of fire pays for film to help others avoid tragedy Nunica Mich. A a fire in a Mobile Home on new year s Day killed Bernard Assink s daughter and three grandchildren and now he wants to teach people How to avoid the kind of tragedy that caused his grief. He is paying for a 12-Minutc film about fire safety that will be available to fire departments and civic clubs crockery township fire chief Joel Sheridan  we can help save someone else s life it s Worth it Assink said. The Jan. I fire which began in a Christmas tree killed Assink s 31-year-old daughter. Bonnie Henley and her three children Christian 8 John 5 and Eric 2. Murdoch planning to build major television network los Angeles a _ publisher Rupert Murdoch has announced plans to reorganize his entertainment and Broad cast properties and form an Independent television system to compete with the three major us. Television networks. The revelation followed wide Scad speculation earlier this year that the australian born Murdoch now an american citizen based in new York was seeking to build a fourth network. In May he agreed to pay $1.55 billion to buy so. To stations from metro Media inc., and in september he Pur chased the second half of 20th Century Fox film  Denver oilman Marvin Davis for $325 million. Mur Doch bought the first half of Fox from Davis six month earlier Tor $250 million. Army plans to buy 362,000 swedish anti Armor weapons by is it will Huyhn a. At-4 anti Armor weapons from Honeywell corp. For $272.8 million Over the next  at-4 is a shoulder fired recoilless weapon used against Light Armor and material targets. It consists of a Hassh i Nich and a Carride Case containing finned High explosive projectile. M in i1 1? prs of p Rtula Ion will be in Sweden but 40 us to my Oil Purchas 11 solve Domestic production by Honeywell an army statement said. My a was " of a   for a new Light anti Armor weapon and the army said acceptance of it by soldiers involved in the testing was High  
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