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An intellectual property consulting firm hired by Kodak, 284 Partners LLC, put an estimated value on the patent portfolio of $2.2 billion to $2.6 billion. Shah said it would be unlikely the patents would go for more than that.
Intellectual property consulting firm M-CAM Inc. of Virginia estimates Kodak will receive “a fraction of the reported $2+ billion original asking price.”
More likely is a sale price of between $1 billion and $2 billion, Marlett said “If bidding gets out of control, it could go above $2 billion,” he said. “I don’t see it going above $3 billion.”
Most bullish on Kodak’s patent possibilities is California money manager Ken Luskin at Intrinsic Value Asset Management, who sees Kodak taking in upward of $4.5 billion based on the patents’ potential for generating royalty payments and for blocking competitors.
“These guys know Apple is playing for blood,” Luskin said.
However, that can change. Nortel Networks Inc. sold its patent portfolio last year for $4.5 billion, five times the initial bids of $900 million.
For Kodak, the sale is a means of generating cash it needs to get out of bankruptcy. The larger the proceeds from the patent sale, the greater the payback to the various debtors left holding IOUs when the company filed for bankruptcy.