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the reason I post it is that this ruling could go either way and that there are problems with the case as reflected by our own lawyers to a member of this board's mother at the MH. The biggest problem that I see is that the judge does not want to be overturned on appeal. Will she stick to the four corners of the patent in which on page eight is main memory , will she be willing to accept the DSP which is painfully been explained both ways by Norris if you read the history of the prosecution of the case. Yes DM did a good job but so didn't the defense by pointing out some of the problems with the patents. If we lose this hearing or the patents are modified the settlement sums will be drastically reduced as there is virtually no revenue from the IFE.