Apple and Google are collaborating to buy Kodak's patents

Two giant companies competing issues to improve chances of winning Kodak's patents bankrupt. The price tag: starting half a billion dollars
A rare collaboration between Apple and Google. As reported by Bloomberg, the two giant companies, which are big rivalry, brochures to submit a joint bid to buy the company's patents Kodak bankrupt. Submit two proposed acquisition of approximately $ 500 million, the minimum amount it requires for the 1100 Kodak patents registered in its name, engaged in photography, processing and sharing images. According to Kodak, patents may be worth between 2.21 to -2.57 billion, and estimated final purchase amount will be significantly higher than that which is entry level.
It comes after the two companies initially built separate buying groups for patents, each of which offered less than the $ 500 million requested. Now they act as has happened in the past, the world of technology - and cooperate to improve their positions in the acquisition of patents and pay any less interesting patent it. "Apple and Google have decided to connect to reduce costs in purchasing Kodak's patents and fill their business needs," said Bloomberg Richard Ehrlichman, an expert in the field of patents. He said he estimated worth much less patent claim of billions of Kodak, since many of them sold Kodak license to other companies.