NeoMedia Technologies, Inc (NEOM)

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Gophilipgo: NeuStar could not file the patent application because the patent application contains prior art and that prior art is NeoMedia's 6,199,048 patent. NeuStar cannot rip off NeoMedia's IP, not that it would want to.

The bulk of the patent application is the '048 patent but with a distinction now made between managed and unmanaged codes and a new method of handling data decoded from a barcode termed home messaging system and destination messaging system.

Whether my reasoning above is completely correct is irrelevant. The fact is NeuStar did not file the patent application, NeoMedia did.

Clearly, NeuStar is licensing the patent pending IP and not solely the 6,199,048 IP or there would be no need to file a patent application to account for a method of use of the '048 IP where interoperability is involved. Interoperability is the way of the IP, the primary operation thereof and one for which NeoMedia has a 20 year monopoly.