My understanding is that the court told McEwan to go pound sand last year. Do you have more up-to-date info?
While one examiner from the USPTO initially suggested that key claims may have been anticipated by Fullerton, their final ruling was in favor of The Regents of the University of California, assignee of the MIR patent (5,361,070) in dispute. (This work was performed by the inventor, Thomas McEwan, while an employee of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). The final USPTO decision (a copy of which can be found at Rexexam, stated that "[a]s a result of reexamination, it has been determined that: The patentability of claims 1-20 is confirmed. New claims 21-49 are added and determined to be patentable."
Thus, all of the original claims made in the "MIR" patent were upheld by the USPTO; and the patent was furthered strengthened by the addition of 29 new claims.
Luckily, you don't know what you're talking about. I'd be happy to buy jerks like you a one way ticket to whatever country you want.
Keep an eye on the FCC meeting agenda for February (check this site on 7 February, one week before the Commissioner's scheduled meeting for the 14th: http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/agendameetings.html)
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My understanding is that the court told McEwan to go pound sand last year. Do you have more up-to-date info?
While one examiner from the USPTO initially suggested that key claims may have been anticipated by Fullerton, their final ruling was in favor of The Regents of the University of California, assignee of the MIR patent (5,361,070) in dispute. (This work was performed by the inventor, Thomas McEwan, while an employee of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). The final USPTO decision (a copy of which can be found at Rexexam, stated that "[a]s a result of reexamination, it has been determined that: The patentability of claims 1-20 is confirmed. New claims 21-49 are added and determined to be patentable."
Thus, all of the original claims made in the "MIR" patent were upheld by the USPTO; and the patent was furthered strengthened by the addition of 29 new claims.
Luckily, you don't know what you're talking about. I'd be happy to buy jerks like you a one way ticket to whatever country you want.
Keep an eye on the FCC meeting agenda for February (check this site on 7 February, one week before the Commissioner's scheduled meeting for the 14th: http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/agendameetings.html)
You can watch the meeting live on the net.
God bless America.
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Various papers and presentations on UWB technology
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