<p>Kodak has dismissed claims made by an intellectual property consultancy that it has retained valuable patents that were supposed to become the property of the Kodak UK Pension Plan.</p><p>In April Kodak announced that it planned to sell its personalised and document imaging businesses to its UK pension plan, in a $650m (400m) deal that allowed it to offload the giant pension liability owed to the scheme. Subsequently the remaining Kodak business was able to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September.</p><p>The spun-off operations owned by the plan are now known as Kodak Alaris.</p><p>US-based patent and intellectual property specialist Envision IP carried out research on behalf of some of Kodak's shareholders during Kodak's Chapter 11 process, so that the shareholders could understand the value of the patent portfolio and argue their case for compensation for their losses.</p><p><a href="http://www.printweek.com/print-week/news/1140792/kodak-patent-claims-totally-base">Keep reading...</a></p>