NeoMedia Technologies, Inc (NEOM)

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julie: Combining the data in the 10Qs, an interview, and the re-examination documents and there are some clues about The Big Transaction. If you look at the USPTO filings, you will notice the original request for re-examination on 8-25-2010 left out the key text which was prior art. This was not completed until 9-20-2010.

It is very unlikely this was a mistake which suggests the possibility a very interested party was using the re-exam as a negotiating tool.

The timing of events match the dates for the Big Transaction.

Exactly two weeks before the re-exam was filed, the last public statement by Iain was that the '048 was not the be-all, end-all core patent that it was declared to be in 2009. Essentially, NeoMedia had fought long and hard, but they didn't need to win a re-exam.

"A lot of people talk about the 048 patent that was re-examined 18 months ago… but that was just 1 of 60. Even if that had been overturned, we’d have got them with another patent."

The question, of course, was whom was he referring to as "them." At the time, I wondered why he would do a public interview a few days before the deadline for the Big Transaction. The only conclusion was he did not anticipate another "Talk" or the Transaction.

http://neom.com/press/in_the_news/neomedia-ceo-iain-mccready-talks-barcodes-ip-and-shareholders-gomo-news

I think it is safe to stop waiting on the Transaction, the Exit, or new funding until this is resolved.