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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Fonar - Where is it going? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michelino who wrote (10733)	8/7/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: WebDrone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19354

Michaelino- it is not the usual case for patent cases to be heard by a jury of ordinary citizens with little scientific training. Usually, these matters are decided by a judges with the help of experts. Nowadays, you can appeal the court's decision and go to a jury trial, or go straight ot a jury, I think. Unusual, but not unheard of. Here is a similar example- the DOJ is investigating Microsoft for violation of Sherman Antitrust act. Let's say Netscape feels they have been ripped off. The DOJ has a panel of judges, and their expert, Larry Lessig (sp?). These guys will decide if MSFT is a bad guy first- not a jury. You can figure out what happens next if people don't agree with the outcome- appeals and jury trials. I don't pretend to be a legal expert, but I do know NMR imaging. I have made imagers from scratch, and I was around back then. Nothing in Fonar's patents were ever used by me or any of the real NMR pioneers- You can make an image of a bell pepper without Fonar's patents, but Fonar could not make an image of a bell pepper. The courts say Fonar had the patent for cancer detection in vivo by ALL NMR techniques, despite the patent not saying exactly that. (Does not imply Fonar was imaging. It implies that Imaging involves point-resolved non-quantitative spectroscopy.) Whatever- they are all Lawyers. L'iars, we calls 'em. That patent is now expired, isn't it? New products won't have to pay on expired patents, but I could be wrong. I think the Spin guy claimed that you had to cite exactly what provisions of the patent were infringed on. I think you are also referencing the Appeals Court, not the court with the original decision. What does it matter to you? I will tell you this, I would have hoped that Fonar would have done a share buy-back with some of the $$$, to give a little equity back to the shareholders who have been such staunch supporters. Web.