Allsuchpartnershipswill beevaluatedon a case-by-casebasis, butcertainlyourcore, existingtechnologypartnerships, such as the one with Intel, are examples of valued participation.
"You have to look at each patent on a case-by-case basis, and the fact that one case has been ruled to be too 'obvious' to enforce should not be generalised to mean all of Kodak's other patents are invalid, " said Ilya Kazi from the UK's Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.
The FCC currently decides on concerns of wireless spectrum concentration on a case-by-case basis: what's acceptable in one deal might be forbidden in another.