RE: Statement from Infinite Pictures

[Julie Stark <stark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glen,

Thank you for your response. The court said the following:

"Nothing in this injunction shall preclude or prevent defendants IPI ...
from making, using, distributing, or selling or offering for sale in the
U.S., any seamer or viewer software that is used in ways that do not
infringe the '667 patent, including without limitation ... processing,
projecting, or viewing photographic images that are not taken with
hemispherical fisheye lens cameras..." (irrelvant sections omitted as
indicated by "...")

The judgement was specific to Infinite Pictures' panoramic solutions and only addresses the use of hemispherical fisheye lens... not 15mm or longer lenses. Essentially, the judgement cleared the way for Infinite Pictures to offer other solutions - such as our SmoothMove Spherical Photo Solution that couples the Kaidan QuickPan Tripod Head with our stitching software - that don't include hemispherical fisheye lens.

Kaidan and Infinite Pictures are dedicated to offering the best solutions possible without mandating the type of equipment used, limiting what can be captured and how the completed panoramas are used, or charging for each image captured. 

Once again, thanks for your response.

Julie A. Stark
Public Relations
Infinite Pictures
33 NW First Avenue, Suite 1
Portland, OR 97209
503/221-2449
stark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.smoothmove.com



-----Original Message-----
From:	Glenn Barry [SMTP:glenn@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Thursday, June 24, 1999 4:56 PM
To:	panorama-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: Statement from Infinite Pictures

Hi all,
I have just finished adapting a copal #3 shutter to accept 35mm nikon
lenses full circle on 120 film, and I intend to use a 15mm sigma full
frame fisheye lens to shoot full circle fisheye. Does this mena that
IPIX claims patent over my invention?

Glen

"thomas b. kunz" wrote:

> Congratulation to Infinite Pictures, this is a great Day.
>
> ...does anybody have some Loser-"keys" free of charge for me.
> Thomas

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