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Kodak: Cloaking Justice in Celluloid

While this just may be the next reel in the on-going saga of Kodak’s celluloid dream of destiny initiated when management shunned digital imaging in favor of believing that film would die a much slower death than the market had ordained, this movie is getting more unfocused each day. And to think that it’s all playing out under the cataract-clouded eyes of the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice – neither of whom could actually review this transaction for its anti-competitive effects EVEN IF the material identities of the participants were disclosed.

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Kodak: Cloaking Justice in Celluloid

While this just may be the next reel in the on-going saga of Kodak’s celluloid dream of destiny

initiated when management shunned digital imaging in favor of believing that film would die a

much slower death than the market had ordained, this movie is getting more unfocussed each day.

And to think that it’s all playing out under the cataract-clouded eyes of the Federal Trade

Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice – neither of whom could actually review this

transaction for its anti-competitive effects EVEN IF the material identities of the participants

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Kodak: Is a picture really worth $3 billion? Intellectual Property Analysis of Kodak

Kodak, once an iconic name in photography, is now all but a fading Polaroid of its former legacy. Its digital imaging portfolio – ironically brushed aside by Kodak’s own management at the time – is being seen as the company’s saving grace. M•CAM suggests a Caveat Emptor: The over 1,000 patents involved in digital imaging should be seen through a quality and enforceability lens, so that the price of any transaction can be right-sized from the start.

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