More patent bullshit

“The patents Kodak holds are incredibly broad, effectively covering images that are stored centrally and can be ordered online,” she said. That’s likely to mean Kodak will go after other online image sites it believes also infringe its patents, she added.

But:

The first fax machine was invented by Scottish mechanic and inventor Alexander Bain. In 1843, Alexander Bain received a British patent for “improvements in producing and regulating electric currents and improvements in timepieces and in electric printing and signal telegraphs”, in laymen's terms a fax machine.

And:

With the slogan "you press the button, we do the rest," George Eastman put the first simple camera into the hands of a world of consumers in 1888.

Get it, Kodak patented an idea that existed before Kodak existed. Who said Babtists and Bootleggers?