Is Kodak the 'Biggest Loser'

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[top]Apple seeks permission to kick Kodak's corpse

Asks court to allow patent claim against dying photo icon
By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco • Get more from this author
Posted in Law, 15th February 2012 18:56 GMT
Apple has asked the New York branch of the US Bankruptcy Court for permission to sue what's left of Kodak, the once-mighty film firm, for patent infringment.
"Apple requests express authority from this court before it initiates the actions out of an abundance of caution," Apple's lawyers wrote somewhat ungrammatically in the court filing, according to Bloomberg.
The mood must be gloomy in the corner offices at Kodak's Rochester, New York headquarters. The company filed for Chapter 11 backruptcy protection less than a month ago, but that hasn't stopped Cupertino's legal team from now going after them for what it alleges are infringements of patents covering printers, digital cameras, and digital picture frames, Bloomberg reports.