Could be, but they did it in a hurry. We will know sometime this week whether we have a settlement agreement or litigation. Besides, Scanbuy would not have had to have acquired a bunch of other patents in order to challenge the validity of Neom's patents, they could have just located them and asserted them as prior art.
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