Kodak may sell its stake in patents

Kodak will be to part with their package of patents relating to photography. This was on Wednesday informed insiders. We are talking about approximately 1100 patents, which may be sold one of the major companies and the decision is strategic. Specific company names are not specified, but given a series of hints that describe the buyer as a "big, strategic buyer, from the world of wireless technology," which gets patent of the necessity of "defensive defense." Above all, such a description is reminiscent of Google, and which, although it is far not the last place in the market, but can not boast of a large package of its own patents. Recently, Google has lost the competition for patents, Novell and Nortel, but has signed a deal to buy Motorola Mobility 1030 and acquired the patent certificates, previously owned by IBM. C on the other hand, Apple is also positioning its very aggressive policy of acquisitions and patents, as the need to protect interests. You can not however exclude the possibility that we can talk about one of the companies that already have licensing agreements with Kodak. And they include Nokia, Samsung, HTC and Research in Motion. It is worth noting that the company Kodak largely compensates for their inability to compete in the market for digital photographs of royalty. Recently, however, she had to face the fact that not all companies are willing to pay huge sums for the use (up to $ 1 billion per year) and challenged in the courts of law, that does not improve the already not the most enviable position of Kodak.