wilma: It was close to "no reason at all." However, what they filed, which included 5 pages of claims, did not survive the examination. Many times, the applicant gets what they can instead of what they wanted.
What we know for sure is this has nothing to do with Scanbuy. This patent will expire before the Scanbuy suit makes it through discovery. And if they refused to PR the Scanbuy suit, this new patent will not get a mention. The patent was literally a waste of resources.
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” Henry Wheeler Shaw