This whole thing is really about the 'unity requirement'. EPGL's Application pertains to 3 different inventions as opposed to just 1.
Basically, a patent application can relate only to one invention or a group of closely related inventions. The purpose of this requirement is administrative, as well as financial. That is, the requirement serves to preclude the option of filing one patent application for several inventions, while paying only one set of fees (filing fee, search fee, examination fee, renewal fees, and so on). Unity of invention also makes the classification of patent documents easier.
EPGL has already informed investors of this. This is all old news. They have already taken steps to address the unity issue.
As for the novelty issues, we will see how they adjust their claims when each of the 3 inventions has it's own patent app.
Until those individual patent apps are published, everything discussed today regarding this is irrelevant because this patent application is irrelevant in terms of seeing it get granted. Its only relevance comes from glimpsing into a small window of their expansive technology.
