NeoMedia Technologies, Inc (NEOM)

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I’ve been hearing some speculation about a NeoMedia/Motorola connection lately, and I would like to share some of the things that I have been, “Pondering”, for a long time about this issue, so here it goes.


· The subject is NeoMedia’s Patents, and how Motorola has been involved with this, and similar technology, and how I believe this helps to verify that NeoMedia’s patents are extremely valuable.

I believe that Motorola tried to use AirClic to steal NeoMedia’s patents. This PR indicates that NeoMedia won a trial over AirClic to keep their patents. One thing to keep in mind here, Motorola is the……………………….“Gorilla”……….. “Gorilla” = “Top Banana Primate”.
http://www.neom.com/press_releases/2003/20031208.jsp

AirClic’s President, John Parker is a patent attorney. This info was available on AirClic’s web site, but when NeoMedia sued them that information got removed from their web site. Now they just indicate that he has a law degree. AirClic/Motorola knows what NeoMedia’s patents are worth, and they wanted them……………………………badly. “Bad boys”!…. “Bad boys”!!
http://www.airclic.com/leadership.asp

I mention this in an earlier post.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg_ig.asp?message_id=8171670

Motorola has a history with AirClic, and has supported AirClic for several years since the time
that AirClic tried to take over NeoMedia’s patents. Notice the association with Symbol too. Motorola , and Symbol Technologies have a history. Examples;

http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail.jsp?globalObjectId=2880_2342_23

http://www.airclic.com/release2.asp

http://www.mobilevillage.com/news/2005.03.10/airclic.htm

http://www.motorola.com/content.jsp?globalObjectId=6536

http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail.jsp?globalObjectId=2920_2382_23

http://www.airclic.com/devices.asp


"The combination of Motorola, Symbol, Connect Things and AirClic will allow the new venture to move very rapidly toward providing devices and a proven Web registry system to the public," said G. Russell Mortenson, Connect Things´ chief executive officer. "We expect the new venture to dramatically enhance B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer) commerce over the Internet as well as greatly facilitate general information services."
http://www.symbol.com/news/pressreleases/pr_motor.html

Motorola supplies AirClic with funding too. I suspect that some of the money that NeoMedia borrowed from AirClic actually came from Motorola.
http://www.airclic.com/release4.asp

NeoMedia has a history with Symbol Technologies.

Among the leading companies currently licensed to use NeoMedia patents is Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL), which was given the right to grant licenses to itself and third parties under NeoMedia's intellectual property for a fixed fee per device (see "NeoMedia, Symbol Form Strategic Relationship," Business Wire, May 14, 2001).
http://www.techdaily.info/dg.lts/id.5993/news.news_view.htm

I’m speculating that the, NeoMedia/Symbol/Motorola/AirClic, relationship was the reason for this mutual settlement.
http://www.neom.com/press_releases/2005/20050712.jsp


· An interesting event occurred earlier this year. There was a Patent Auction in San Francisco, and an engineer by the name of William L. Reber who had worked at Motorola was selling patents. He acquired ownership of these patents from Motorola. He claimed that they involved bar codes, cell phones, and the internet. After looking at each of these patents I cannot see the connection to camera cell phones. I’m wondering if he was trying to pawn these patents off under the guise as being equal to NeoMedia’s patented qode technology.

My take on this whole matter is this; If Motorola actually had patents like NeoMedia’s, would they let Mr. Reber walk away with them, particularly if they went through all of the trouble of trying grab them through AirClic???? I believe that this is further evidence that Motorola really wanted the rights to this technology. Mr. Reber may have been involved too. They were close, but no cigar/bridge.

Here are some articles about the auction.

“Bidders at the April 6 auction will find inventive and practical technologies that have met minimum threshold requirements set by Ocean Tomo Patent Ratings' proprietary rating system as well as an official patent selection committee. Among the lots listed for sale are barcode, biochip and image distribution technologies originally developed by Motorola,”
http://www.ipfrontline.com/depts/article.asp?id=9490&deptid=8


http://www.oceantomo.com/PDFs/lot6_2_14.pdf

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:3Q3CKsAlcHoJ:www.oceantomo.com/PDFs/lot6_2_14.pdf+%22NeoMedia+T...



Take a look at these patents from Motorola/ William L. Reber, and see if they do what qode does.

5,903,729
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fne...

5,938,726
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fne...

5,986,651
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fne...

5,995,105
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fne...

6,081,827
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fne...

6,484,943
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fne...


5,940,595
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fne...

5,902,353
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fne...

Compare the previous Motorola patents to NeoMedia’s latest patent. Motorola’s patents do talk about bar codes, and the internet, but I do not see any specific reference to camera cell phones, and transferring data over the mobile web. NeoMedia’s latest patent specifically refers to camera cell phones.

6,993,573
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/neta...

NeoMedia is aware of these former Motorola patents. I checked with the US Patent office, and it turns out that Mr. Reber still owns these patents. I guess that no one wanted them??? Another thing, if you do a Google on William L. Reber, you will find that he has been involved with other patents.

· Motorola decides if you can’t beat them,…………………………..then join/buy them.

If Motorola actually had patents equivalent to NeoMedia’s qode they would have built their own bridge, but instead they bought access through Symbol Technologies, since they had been working with Symbol anyway. I have to give Motorola some credit,………………they are a lot smarter than ScamBuy. This should be another strong signal to other patent infringes that NeoMedia really does own the bridge. Pay NeoMedia now, because you will certainly pay them later.

Motorola Acquires Symbol Technologies.
http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail.jsp?globalObjectId=7268_7209_23&WT.ac=global%20h...


· This is an obvious capitulation of Motorola on the issue of who owns the “IP Bridge”.
I’m wondering if Motorola has attempted to buy NeoMedia? I suspect that the price was just tooooo high.

Who’s the Mobile Marketing Boss?……………NeoMedia = “Boss Qode”. Time to lock, and load.

Let’s get ready to rummmmmmmmmmmmmble!!!