Apple and Google are likely to offer jointly in the patentenportfolio who is in possession of the ailing Kodak. Initially offered two companies separately on the patents, by which the grouping is striking.
According to Bloomberg, have two sources who are familiar with the auction said that Apple and Google have joined forces have beaten and a bid of more than $ 500 million preparing for the patentenportfolio of Kodak. From the foregoing biedingsronde proved that there are only amounts of between 150 and 250 million dollars are provided, which makes the parties a great chance to make the patents in their hands.
Apple and Google started initially with separate bids on the Kodak patents. This Apple had the firm Intellectual Ventures on, a company that by some is seen as a ‘patent troll’. Google chose to RPX, a company that aims to be more protective. It is unclear why the companies are transferred to a joint venture: this may reduce costs and ensure that from the purchase of the Kodak patents no lawsuits for infringement follow.
Kodak asked earlier a bankruptcy, after the company’s debts could no longer pay. It went on for quite a long time poorly with the photographic company: in August of last year, it appeared that Kodak was considering for his patentenportfolio of the hand to do. The value was initially estimated at 2.6 billion dollars.