Just out in today's issue of The Register:
http://www.theregister.com/2004/10/04/kodak_wins_java/
Basically, Kodak was able to aquire some patents on Java in late '97 from the mostly defunct Wang Labs, and has managed to convince an American court that Sun now owes them $1.06 billion == half of Sun's operating profit from servers and storage products between 1998 and 2001.
The situation with intellectual property patents in the US is getting ridiculous...