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Google and Apple are once again going head to head in bidding for a major
collection of patents owned by a bankrupt corporation. According to The Wall
Street Journal, two consortiums have formed to bid for the patents owned by
camera giant Kodak, which is currently in bankruptcy.
Apple, Microsoft, and patent-aggregation firm Intellectual Ventures are
teaming up, while Google, Samsung, LG, HTC and RPX Corp are forming the
second alliance.
The people familiar with the discussions cautioned that work on bids could
continue over the weekend, with alliances changing and other bidders
potentially emerging.
[…]
A bankruptcy court supervised auction of Kodak's patents is set for Aug. 8.
The patents are being sold in two lots: the digital-capture portfolio
related to capturing and processing images on cameras, smartphones and
tablets; and the Kodak Imaging Systems and Services patents related to
storing and analyzing images, among other things.
The two teams are unsurprising. A consortium consisting of Apple, EMC,
Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM, and Sony purchased 6,000 patents from Nortel last
year, beating out a group that included Intel and Google. For the Kodak
patents, we see Google paired up with Samsung, LG and HTC -- three major
Android handset makers -- along with RPX Corp., another patent aggregation
firm.
Apple and Kodak have filed a number of lawsuits and countersuits against
each other in the ongoing tech patent wars.
Google and Apple are once again going head to head in bidding for a major
collection of patents owned by a bankrupt corporation. According to The Wall
Street Journal, two consortiums have formed to bid for the patents owned by
camera giant Kodak, which is currently in bankruptcy.
Apple, Microsoft, and patent-aggregation firm Intellectual Ventures are
teaming up, while Google, Samsung, LG, HTC and RPX Corp are forming the
second alliance.
The people familiar with the discussions cautioned that work on bids could
continue over the weekend, with alliances changing and other bidders
potentially emerging.
[…]
A bankruptcy court supervised auction of Kodak's patents is set for Aug. 8.
The patents are being sold in two lots: the digital-capture portfolio
related to capturing and processing images on cameras, smartphones and
tablets; and the Kodak Imaging Systems and Services patents related to
storing and analyzing images, among other things.
The two teams are unsurprising. A consortium consisting of Apple, EMC,
Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM, and Sony purchased 6,000 patents from Nortel last
year, beating out a group that included Intel and Google. For the Kodak
patents, we see Google paired up with Samsung, LG and HTC -- three major
Android handset makers -- along with RPX Corp., another patent aggregation
firm.
Apple and Kodak have filed a number of lawsuits and countersuits against
each other in the ongoing tech patent wars.
