Information Systems Kodak

ITPAIS, the Image Technology Patent Information System was developed between 1975—1985 by Eastman Kodak Co., Agfa-Gevaert (Antwerp/Leverkusen), and Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., and encompasses selected patents and Hterature references related principally to the chemical aspects of image technology. Search terms used for this table were the same as in the previous edition, and the Derwent patent database was used for the search data presented here. 

Commercial and Information Systems Group, Research Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY 14650... 

The first attempt to integrate the chemical system with the external literature took the form of an Information Imaging Technology Patent Information System, ITPAIS. This is a collaborative venture of Kodak with Agfa, Fuji and the Rochester Institute of Technology. ITPAIS uses a photoscience thesaurus and contains 95,000 chemical accession numbers. Microfilm indexes to text and chemical structures are disseminated to the collaborating companies and DIALOG provides text access to the participants. 

L. C. Applegate and R. Montealegre, Eastman Kodak Company Managing Information Systems through Strategic Alliances, vol. 9-191-030. Boston Harvard Business School Case, 1991. 

L. Loh and N. Venkatraman, "Diffusion of information technology outsourcing Influence sources and the Kodak effect," Information Systems Research, vol. 3, pp. 334-358,1992. 

The chemistry of hydrolysis and condensation of silicon alkoxides is now understood in considerable detail, as indicated in the chapter by Coltrain and Kelts (Eastman Kodak Co.). Extensive use of nuclear magnetic resonance has revealed the influence of factors such as pH on the kinetics of the competing reactions. With this information it is possible to rationalize the structures of the aggregates, as revealed by studies of small-angle scattering of X-rays and neutrons. This level of understanding opens the possibility for deliberate control of gel structure and properties. Nonsilicate systems have received less... 

Eastman Kodak has many laboratories worldwide, all with their own information departments, but the Information and Computer Technology Division in Rochester, and in particular the Application and Data Resources Unit, is responsible for the 555,000 compounds in the Chemical Registry System (under both MACCS and CAS Registry System software). There are also on file 17000 reactions under REACCS, 190,000 reports and 65,000 patents in a photographic patents index. The Chemical Information Centre holds 1,100,000 index cards, half of them in accession number order and half in molecular formula sequence. 

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