Google and Apple are more often seen as rivals rather than teammates, but they've joined forces to pool a bid of US$500 million to buy patents from bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co.
The companies are planning to buy some of Kodak's 1,100 imaging patents in a bankruptcy auction. Apple was part of a group that purchased more than 6,000 patents from Nortel Networks for $4.5 billion in a similar proceeding last year; Google went alone and lost out on those patents.
The patents in question pertain to the "capture, manipulation and sharing of digital images." Apple had previously joined with Microsoft and Intellectual Ventures Manage
