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2nd UPDATE: Kodak Patent Declared Invalid In Case Vs Apple, RIM - NASDAQ

05/21/12

The imaging company filed for bankruptcy on Jan. 19, automatically halting all pending litigation against the company. Kodak has still locked horns in courtrooms both at the ITC, and against Apple in another battle over the ownership of another patent.

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Kodak Loses Claim of RIM, Apple Infringing Imaging Patent - Bloomberg

05/21/12

Kodak, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January, contends Apple already owes it more than $1 billion in damages for infringement of this and other digital capture patents, according to a bankruptcy court filing this month.

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Lender, trustee deal will allow sale of State Fair in one piece - Richmond Times-Dispatch

05/21/12

The sale could be called off if a deal is reached to sell the ... according to court papers filed this morning in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. That agreement allows for the entire fair, including the 360-acre Meadow Event Park in Caroline County ...

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Four White & Allen attorneys honored - Daily Reflector

05/21/12

The firm’s practice includes concentrations on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, civil litigation, personal injury, commercial law, corporate law, criminal law, elder law, employee benefits, employment law, estate planning and administration ...

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Houghton Mifflin Opens Page On Chapter 11 - site.law360.com

05/21/12

Law360, New York (May 21, 2012, 2:32 PM ET) -- Boston-based textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. and 23 affiliates filed for Chapter 11 protection with a prepackaged plan in a New York bankruptcy court Monday, in a move designed to ...

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Houghton Mifflin files Chapter 11 bankruptcy - msnbc.com

05/21/12

(Reuters) - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers Inc, whose textbooks have been a staple in American schoolhouses for decades, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday after agreeing with creditors to eliminate $3.1 billion of debt. The "pre ...

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Obama Video Hits Romney Role in Ampad Bankruptcy - ABC News

05/21/12

Now, the Obama campaign is resurrecting the case to help keep Romney out of the White House. A new five-minute campaign web video aims to discredit Romney’s key selling point of his candidacy — his business experience — featuring ...

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Gunthers Transport owner files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy - The Business Journal

05/21/12

The owner of a Hanover trucking company that federal trucking regulators forced off the road last year has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Mark David Gunther Sr., owner of Gunthers Transport and Gunthers Leasing Transport Inc., filed ...

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UPDATE 4-Houghton Mifflin files Chapter 11 bankruptcy - Reuters

05/21/12

May 21 (Reuters) - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers Inc, whose textbooks have been a staple in American schoolhouses for decades, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday after agreeing with creditors to eliminate $3.1 billion of debt.

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Kodak Loses Trade Ruling in Patent Case Against RIM, Apple - Businessweek

05/21/12

The iPhone maker lost the patent-infringement case it filed at the ITC against Kodak and was barred by a bankruptcy judge in March from filing a second one. The patent case is In the Matter of Certain Mobile Telephones and Wireless Communication ...

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