{"id":3198,"date":"2012-08-20T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2333294"},"modified":"2012-08-20T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:52:00","slug":"kodak-google-v-apple-patent-auction-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/kodak-google-v-apple-patent-auction-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodak Google v Apple Patent Auction on Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor benighted Kodak. It thinks its 1,100 patent, which it has to sell to pay off its creditors, are worth somewhere between $2.2 billion and $2.6 billion but was reportedly able to attract initial auction bids of only $500 million from bidders like the rival consortia led by Apple and Google. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s altogether a far cry from Nortel\u2019s $4.5 billion experience last year. <\/p>\n<p>The consortia reportedly involve Google-RPX-Samsung-LG-HTC on the one hand and Apple-Microsoft-Intellectual Ventures on the other. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2333294\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor benighted Kodak. It thinks its 1,100 patent, which it has to sell to pay off its creditors, are worth somewhere between $2.2 billion and $2.6 billion but was reportedly able to attract initial auction bids of only $500 million from bidders like th&#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-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","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=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}