The company has filed court papers claiming: "Apple's decision to press its ownership claims now ... should be seen for what it is, namely, a ploy calculated to prevent the debtors from using the [bankruptcy] sale process to obtain a fair price for Kodak's digital capture portfolio (or to enable Apple to buy it on the cheap and extinguish its infringement exposure)," reports .
The camera company accuses Apple of being the biggest infringer of its digital camera patents. Apple claims that the patents are its own.
Apple contends that back in the early 1990s, when the two companies worked together "to explore how the two companies could work together on various projects including commercialization of Apple's digital cameras", .
Kodak, which has filed for bankruptcy, is hoping to sell the patents to pay its creditors.
Back in March, a US bankruptcy judge , saying that allowing the action to continue would be 'inappropriate'.
Judge Allan Gropper, who is overseeing Kodak's application for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, said that Apple couldn't continue its case against Kodak or file a new patent infringement lawsuit relating to digital cameras and printers.
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