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organized into two camps. In one, Adobe,
Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft formed a
consortium led by Intellectual Ventures. In
the other, RPX mustered Amazon, Google,
HTC, Samsung, and the photo-printing website Shutterfly. Each participant in such a
consortium gets to keep a share of the patents and a license for the rest. The cost to
each is relatively low, and all gain the protective power of the entire portfolio.
"We knew this would be one of the largest deals ever done," says Kenneth Lustig,
head of strategic acquisitions at Intellectual
Ventures. "It was our conclusion that it was
likely a consortium buy, and as a leader in
the invention business we felt it was something we should lead."
Kodak balked at the offers. A few hundred
million dollars would not be enough to secure
the loans it required and might devalue its
remaining IP by association. The company
extended the auction and then threatened to
abandon it altogether. "They did not get the
spontaneous bidding war they wanted," says
RPX's Heath. "I imagine it was a splash of cold
water." The earlier licensing deals with LG
and Samsung, he adds, "had reduced the strategic value of the portfolio and...dampened
people's enthusiasm."
Negotiations with potential buyers continued into October, but time was running
out. If Kodak couldn't complete a deal, its
plan to emerge from Chapter 11 would fall
through and the company might be split up
or shut down. Simply put, Kodak needed
more money to survive than either consortium was prepared to pay.
The logical solution was for Intellectual
Ventures and RPX to form a superconsortium. And so they did. With the two aggregators at the helm, the consortiums merged
and acquired three new members: Fujifilm,
Huawei, and RIM. The superconsortium
now featured a dozen of the world's biggest technology multinationals, with a combined market capitalization of more than
$1.5 trillion (the size of Australia's GDP). Its
members reach almost every human being
who is online, have software running on
98 percent of all computing devices, and
sell half of the world's smartphones.
Back at the negotiating table, the pressure
ratcheted up again. In November, Kodak announced that it had secured $793 million in
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