Resources for Flottweg Litigation

LAWSUIT
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Order on Pretrial Deadlines:
Motions to Dismiss due on 01/14/2011.
Amended Pleadings due by 12/13/2010;
Discovery due by 4/15/2011;
Dispositive Motions due by 5/15/2011.
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PATENT
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Here are 17 Flottweg Patents being applied for.

Here is the 11/604,435 application filed by Flottweg on 27 November 2007.
Filed  27 November 2007.  This is the one that was REJECTED due to prior art and being obvious.

Here is Flottweg's stable of 30 patents going back almost 35 years.  Only the top four were awarded within the last 5 years.
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SkunK
This is a big deal. The reason this is important is we have the combined pretrial coming up a week from Monday. Is this the crutch being kicked out from the infringers defense? I would think that all Flottweg customers may have quite a weekend reassessing their position. I have heard numbers that there may be as many as 40 infringers, yet we have less than half of that under litigation. Are some of those direct Flottweg customers? If they thought this rejected patent would protect them from an infringing lawsuit, I guess they need to reassess. This may open the floodgates to go after the Flottweg customers who have been infringing - since until this patent was rejected the issue would have been clouded by a pending patent. NO LONGER. People have been asking me: "Whats going on with the pps?" Is this the reason? No idea, but the timing is self-evident. I do expect that between the upcoming pretrial and the throwing out of this basic Flottweg patent - it has definitely escalated the pressure on infringers to settle.