NeoMedia Technologies, Inc (NEOM)

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Rick: Read this on another board and found it interesting as it deals with the Scanbuy/Marshal suit.

1) In the Marshal patent they list Neomedia patents: 6,199,048 and 5,978,773 as prior art. Isn't patent 6,993,573 a derivitive of these listed prior art patents (still in force). Did they feel that their patent did not cover these aspects of this prior art?

2) In the Attia patent it does seem to cover a great deal of the Neom patent in question. But, in the prior art listings Attia did not include either of the above Neom prior patents. Would a patent have been granted if this information was included ?

My comments:
I am waiting for SRM to comment on all of this. He is really good at this stuff (or he has and I've missed it).

Here are the Marshal and Attia payents
http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6886750.PN.&OS=PN/6886750&RS=PN/6886750

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7287696.PN.&OS=PN/7287696&RS=PN/7287696