"I never understood how RP could make the comment that DM was only persuing the voice/removable flash infringers when 4 major patents were included in the suit."

First off....voice is what the patent claims are built on.....not image , hence the Vivitar case.

"Why include the OS/file management patent in the suit if we had no intention of claiming royalties for their use?"

I have no idea why they would do that...445 is an advanced scheme above the 774 attributes.

LG could settle for the ROM based features of 774 in simplistic from.....my question is, why would they do that? The future is in 445, why settle for audio only and not utilize the ability for ALL file types?.

As far as being in other embedded chip features...that is second tier stuff and as far as we know, they,re not going that route yet.

doni