{"id":2993,"date":"2012-08-04T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2325396"},"modified":"2012-08-04T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T19:15:00","slug":"apple-google-to-vie-in-kodak-patent-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/apple-google-to-vie-in-kodak-patent-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple &amp; Google to Vie in Kodak Patent Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its bankruptcy proceedings, Eastman Kodak has put 1,100 patents on the block.<br \/>\nThey are expected to be sold at auction on August 8.<br \/>\nThere was reportedly a Monday deadline for initial bids according to what \u201cpeople familiar with the matter\u201d told the Wall Street Journal.<br \/>\nApple, teamed with Microsoft and Nathan Myhrvold\u2019s Intellectual Ventures, and Google in company with RPX, Samsung, LG and HTC are believed to be after them for protection.<br \/>\nApple and Google were on opposite sides in the great Nortel patent auction last year and Apple and Microsoft et al walked off with the IP for $4.5 billion, a victory the inflated the expectations of patent holders everywhere. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2325396\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its bankruptcy proceedings, Eastman Kodak has put 1,100 patents on the block.<br \/>\nThey are expected to be sold at auction on August 8.<br \/>\nThere was reportedly a Monday deadline for initial bids according to what \u201cpeople familiar with the matter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}