the following may be only coincidences::: and in my opinion....

is the date that the 737 re-exam got sent to the examiner for review. It is also the date that edig put out its first quarter results -----that also said:

"As previously reported, the June 2011 Markman opinion construed claim terms in one of the Company’s Flash-R patents more narrowly than proposed by the Company. The parties to the litigation subsequently proposed a future discovery plan and requested the court to construe a claim term from a second patent in the litigation. The Company believes these recent developments could affect future licensing of the ‘774 patent. However, a successful determination from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) patent reexamination could resolve ambiguities and assist the Company in future enforcement of its ‘774 patent. As a consequence of these and other factors, the timing and amount of licenses, if any, by existing defendants is uncertain. Future events including court rulings, patent reexamination results and other factors could have a significant positive or negative impact on future patent enforcement and licensing activity.

Falk concluded, "While the IFE business remains slow and sporadic, we continue to aggressively pursue technology licensing activities. In fiscal 2011 we filed seven patent applications related to communication networks and digital data distribution. We continue to add what we believe to be important IP to our portfolio and seek to license applications of this IP this fiscal year."

From what i can tell, and in my opinion only, 7/20/11 is the date the edig shareholder meeting was filed with the SEC...7/20/11 is also the date that all our OUR attys information supporting the reexam on BOTH the 774 and 737 was filed with the uspto...and from what i can tell, the Canon settlement might have been reached after reviewing the reexam filings on 7/20 as the first announcement re canon that I know of was in our 7/28/11 jt filing with co fed ct.......