Replies to post #244286 on NeoMedia Technologies, Inc (NEOM)

[sonofgodzilla]

Nice Detective Work streetz! Patents From Heaven:-)

[PipBoy]

Sticky this! nice info!

[Vercingetorix]

They'll wait to PR that one so volume can be maximized IMO..

[cjstocksup]

More NEOM patent news coming.

[Poptech]

street: Should have let NeoMedia make the announcement so we can have another run. I think posting this early just sucked the legs off that run.

[diarch]

streetz-another nice find. Any guess as to why this confirm follows and not precedes today's announcement?

[Poptech]

street: This patent has not been "awarded" yet. I know it sounds like a sure thing, but the patent office keeps a published list of patents that get to this point and then are pulled.

Once the patent has been assigned a patent number AND published as a patent, it is considered "issued." Since it is not issued yet, NeoMedia has not announced they were "awarded" a patent.

[diamondtech]

I think it soon Sean look here..

1309 Issue of Patent [R-5] - 1300 Allowance and Issue

1309 Issue of Patent [R-5]
Under the current publication process, electronic capture of most of the information to be printed in a patent will begin as soon as an allowed application is received in the Office of Patent Publication, immediately after the Notice of Allowance has been mailed. The Office of Patent Publication forwards the allowed applications to the printer for Initial Data Capture (IDC). This IDC process takes approximately five weeks to accomplish and during this time the application, if in a paper file, is not available to examiners or for purposes of making copies of the application (copies of the application files that have been published may be ordered from the Office of Public Records, upon payment of the fee, but the applications will not be removed from the publication process for purposes of making copies). After IDC is completed, the application is returned to the Office of Patent Publication, and the file will be available to examiners and the Office of Public Records.

When the issue fee is paid and all other requirements have been met (e.g., drawings) within the time allowed by law, the application is forwarded to the printer for Final Data Capture (FDC) and final issue preparation. At this point, the application can only be retrieved if it is withdrawn from issue. The application is assigned a patent number and issue date about ten days before the application issues as a patent, and an Issue Notification is mailed to inform the applicant of the patent number and issue date. A bond paper copy of the patent grant is ribboned, sealed, and mailed by the Office of Patent Publication.

All allowed applications ready for printing will be selected by chronological sequence based on the date the issue fee was paid. Special handling will be given to the following applications in these categories:


(A) Allowed cases which were made special by the Director**.

(B) Allowed cases that have a U.S. effective filing date more than 5 years old.

(C) Allowed reissue applications.

(D) Allowed applications having an effective filing date earlier than that required for declaring an interference with a copending application claiming the same subject matter.

(E) Allowed application of a party involved in a terminated interference.

To ensure that any application falling within the scope of the categories outlined above and identified by (A) to (E) receives special treatment, the examiner should **>notify, via e-mail, the Manager of the Publishing Division, Kim Terrell in the Office of Publication that a particular application (identify the application number) should be given special treatment.< The examiner should state the special treatment category outlined above.

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/1300_1309.htm

[lesnshawn]

the big boy. ;-) lns eom

[lorena]

when will this get PR´D

[AbrahamS]

What does this invention ...do?