With targets like Apple still at large, it is reasonable to think DM will pull out all the stops to further EDIG's claims. This nondefinitive and partial ruling seems to allow for a stellar legal team to manuever.
Her ruling has allowed for follow up, hardly decisive, imo, but that issue will come clean in the days ahead.
The infringement has given to market explosions for those that were successful in leveraging products in the portable flash markets, covered by EDIG's patents.
A larger growth market could not have been targeted, 12 years ago.
Talk about being on the edge of greatness...
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Apple closes in on Exxon as world's most valuable firm
Apple Inc., a week after reporting record sales and profit, surpassed $400 a share for the first time and is gaining ground on Exxon Mobil Corp. to become the world's most valuable company.
The shares rose $4.91 to $403.41 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. Apple has climbed 25 percent this year and 7 percent since the company reported third-quarter results on July 19.
Apple, on the brink of bankruptcy when Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs reclaimed the top job more than a decade ago, now has a bigger market value than Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. combined, fueled by new products such as the iPhone and iPad. Shares are up from a stock-adjusted $5.48 on Sept. 16, 1997, the day Jobs returned after his 1985 ouster.
The stock price gives Cupertino's Apple a market capitalization of about $374 billion, trailing by $41.6 billion the $416 billion value of Exxon, based in Irving, Texas.
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