Legal wrangling on the road to settlements, so it seems.

"Although the ruling could adversely impact e.Digital's efforts to establish patent infringement of certain claims by certain defendants of the '774 patent and US Patent No. 5,839,108, the ruling has no apparent impact on the Company's assertions of patent infringement against the defendants under the Company's US Patent No. 5,742,737, and US Patent No. 5,842,170 which are also asserted in the cases.

"e.Digital has asserted multiple claims arising out of different patents in our Flash-R patent portfolio against the Defendants in the current round of litigation," said Fred Falk, president and CEO of e.Digital. "Our cases do not therefore rise or fall on the back of any one patent. Handal & Associates and their technical advisors have deemed that the Defendants infringe several of our patents, and a finding of infringement on any one claim of any one of them would be significant. Regardless of the ruling, the enforcement of our patents will move forward," Falk concluded."