Apple asks bankruptcy court to prevent Kodak from using disputed patent as collateral for loan

5. Muhannad posted on 21 Jan 2012, 14:32 15 12

Basically, Apple is trying to say that they can sue companies for patent infringement but other companies can't do the same to them.

6. bbblader posted on 21 Jan 2012, 14:36 10 3

fake news about apple before: apple is awesome
real news about apple now: meh apple sues someone again

7. Meth7 posted on 21 Jan 2012, 17:52 2 2

Typical, so typical.

9. ivanko34 posted on 21 Jan 2012, 19:46 9 4

apple "asks" the court ???
but apple is the king of the world !
apple should ORDER the court (as they do in germany)

11. vijaysivakula posted on 21 Jan 2012, 21:25 5 1

Which part of this "in 2010, Apple discovered that Kodak was claiming ownership of the patents involved in the partnership and took Kodak to court." did you guys not understand? Apple has sued Kodak. Go back to school ifans.

12. Bluesky02 posted on 22 Jan 2012, 03:20 5 0

Microsoft/Nokia must buy Kodak and make partnership with RIM. Then use whatever those camera and telecommunication patents they have on there next Windows Phone.

14. silver0681 posted on 22 Jan 2012, 12:00 0 3

Wow not sure how anyone can read that Kodak is suing apple htc and rim the post a comment that Apple is suing anyone and not be embarrassed with themselves for being illiterate I don't know.
Further more all apple is doing is something anyone normal person would do which is ask that another company doesn't get a loan using property that doesn't fully belong to them as collateral.
If people would take time to read rather then skim and assume then we would have far less trolls.

16. plgladio posted on 23 Jan 2012, 05:44 1 0

Google bought Motorola, Sony bought Ericsson shares, Microsoft bought Skype, RIM, Nokia were not in good hands now, Samsung and Apple are in good profit, these two can buy if they don't want to let a history making company down. No one want a big company like Kodak to down, already they are sufferring a lot, atleast they can raise some money from Patents as collateral, but Apple is not allowing that. Show some little respect on them APPLE.

17. solidsnakeduds013 posted on 23 Jan 2012, 08:52 1 0

OH YEAH SUE THEM ALL! come on apple its not funny anymore. you guys are getting out of hand. I guess this is what you do when you have so much money with a successful company

18. remixfa posted on 23 Jan 2012, 08:57 1 1

I'm assuming that Apple lost the legal claim against Kodak back in 2010 when they sued kodak over that patent case, otherwise Kodak wouldnt be using that exact same patent to sue Apple for infringement. If that is the case, then what exact merrit does Apple have to lawyer up again and ask for their demands to be met against Kodak's use of the patent now?
Kodak wants to use the patent as collateral for loan money. How does that affect apple? Does that mean another company can basically claim rights to the patent until the loan is paid off? If thats true, then can that company use the same patent to re-sue everyone and milk the industry for more money? If thats the case, i can see why apple might be upset, but too bad. If its not their patent, they cant demand how it gets used.

19. RamyAbdelbadea posted on 23 Jan 2012, 09:10 3 0

apple !! you sue people but they can't sue you ?? !!!

whatever they are in need for money or not
you don't have the right to stop them ,, as NO One Stoped you from suing all the companies and people you want to sue !!!!
and
what about the new notification bar you steal from android ??
really !!!!