"Especially if one of the reasons was to help pave the way for a settlement?"

Could be.....they went through the first 6, they know or must be aware of the pit falls.

If this be the case, we have yet another inherent feature of e.Digitals IP......a trap having a redundancy feature.

I guess we could give the kudos to the application attorney......which I just went to look up and discovered, the on line USPTO no longer designate who the attorney firm are.

I have there name, it's not important to feature them. Maybe they were bombarded with inquiry.....

lol

doni