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posted on Oct 28, 2011 03:11PM

imo, that no one is discussing:

non-defendants, who haven't been sued yet, but who've rec'd the cease and desist, etc./// may be very interested in settling before a final ruling from uspto.....

imo there is a lot more going on than filings that we can see...from last annual report:filed june 21 2011: (emphasis plankton's)

We execute patent licensing arrangements with users of our patented technologies through willing licensing negotiations and through the negotiation of license and settlement arrangements in connection with the filing of patent infringement litigation. We also discuss licenses without the filing of patent infringement litigation and may enter into some future licenses with licensees without the filing of a specific patent infringement action against such licensee. We anticipate bringing additional patent enforcement actions in the future.

also from different section of last annual report:

Intellectual Portfolio Licensing

We use the services of an intellectual property consultant to assist us in investigating and evaluating prospective licensees of our intellectual property portfolio. With respect to our Flash-R patent portfolio this has included documenting possible current and past infringement. Our initial Flash-R portfolio focus is on manufacturers of portable devices employing removable flash memory although we do not believe our portfolio is limited to this market segment. While we have identified a large number of products and companies that we believe are using our patented technology, this is an ongoing process as new products and companies are identified from our research. To date we have filed patent infringement litigation and sought licenses from 26 companies with 13 agreeing to license terms during the discovery stage of related litigation. We believe we are building a track record of demonstrating the strength, validity and clarity of our patent claims and that we can build a growing licensing business from our patent portfolio. The timing of future litigation or licensing is subject to many factors, some of which are not within our control.

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