e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

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imo EDIG will never get through any USPTO patent reexam process or litigation which is inevitable if they ever want more than nuisance settlements. Just look at PTSC. PTSC had very good patents but because the USPTO allows for unlimited reexaminations on the slightest of reasons which take 3-5 years (and often exhaust the patents valid life)their litigation has been tied up in knots. In recent filings those PTSC is trying to collect from say "Judge the USPTO has found valid reason to perform a reexam so lets hold up the trial" the reexam (actually 3 of them) is then completed (in 3 years) but the litigants file another reexam that was just granted and they say "oh Judge their is another reexam so lets just wait until its settled and we can proceed" and of course the Judge says yes. Since PTSC had to modify their patent claims the infringers do not have to pay for past infringement so settlements will be for almost no money. Patents will never make you wealthy unless you have 10 years and millions of dollars to spend trying to enforce them. Only the largest corporations can benefit and enforce patents. The individual invent or small company is dead if they are counting on intellectual property revenue.