In a sense, though, what's most striking about the WTO case is not that Kodak lost, but that it put so much energy into winning.
Kodak was a dog with a bone in the WTO case. 
mnli hypothesis: Kodak was a dog with a bone in the WTO case.  premise: In a sense, though, what's most striking about the WTO case is not that Kodak lost, but that it put so much energy into winning.