The Daily Docket: Judge Won’t Move Kodak Patent Dispute

A judge denied Apple Inc.’s bid to move a patent dispute with Eastman Kodak Co. out of bankruptcy court. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple and Google Inc. are lining up to bid on Kodak’s more-than 1,100 patents.

Reuters reports that law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP paid bankruptcy lawyers and consulting groups more than $7 million before its collapse.

In other Dewey news, the Am Law Daily reports that a new filing in Dewey’s case identified six former possible merger partners that audited finances before the firm’s bankruptcy.

American Airlines parent AMR corp. is starting the ball rolling in a possible merger with US Airways Group Inc., WSJ reports.

According to Bloomberg, Solyndra LLC has filed its Chapter 11 exit plan.

Credit Slips notes that the English High Court ruled that a method used to pressure bondholders to be part of a debt restructuring broke the law in the case of Assenagon Asset Management S.A. v. Irish Bank Resolution Corp. (the former Anglo Irish Bank).

Japan Airlines Co.’s “yen-pinching” practices have contributed to the airline’s dramatic turnaorund, WSJ reports.

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