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Originally posted by ravener
I don't see how this helps us. The '702' patent is one of their "continuation" thingies that was filed in 1998. Even if '702' was tossed out, it still leaves their original patent intact, yes?
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I believe you're correct on that since 6,144,702 is a division of 6,002,720. If '702 was found to be invalid, it would affect only itself. However, if the original, parent patent, No. 5,132,992, filed Jan. 7, 1991, was found faulty, then the other four dependent patents would fall with it as well.
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