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Kodak, don't spend that $1BN just yet

Winning a skirmish at the ITC is not the same as winning a war. Apple vs. Nokia take note.

"Kodak Wins a Round in $1 Billion Apple, RIM Patent Dispute" -- Bloomberg News

Traders were pretty quick to cash in on that headline. Kodak's (EK) battered stock opened Friday at $3.30 a share and jumped nearly 25% to $4.12 in after-hours trading, as if those $1 billion were already in Kodak's pocket.

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Paul Allen: Gunning for Google

An analysis of his latest suit suggests Android's maker has more to fear than Apple does

FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller, whose judgment I've come to trust when it comes to high-tech intellectual property disputes, makes two interesting points about the patent infringement suit Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen refiled Tuesday against nearly a dozen companies, including Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), eBay (EBAY), Facebook, Yahoo (YHOO), Netflix (NFLX) and AOL (AOL).

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Apple vs. Android: The patent battlemap

A high-tech patent expert has reduced the legal disputes to a 13-part timeline

With the exception of the patent attorneys at each of the litigant's firms, there may be nobody who has followed the legal battles surrounding Apple's (AAPL) iOS and Google's (GOOG) Android better than Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents.

On Friday, Mueller published a long post summarizing the 42 patents-in-suit between Apple and Motorola (MOT) in several venues, from the MORE