| Litigation Update (Absolute vs Stealth) We are very excited with the latest developments from the US patent office and the appointment of a qualified special master.
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| Date | Event |
| 10/21/2004 | Absolute filed infringement lawsuit against Stealth in the western district of Washington at Seattle. |
| 12/15/2004 | Stealth filed Infringement counterclaim against Absolute based on the Baran patent. (""Method and Apparatus for Remote Verification of the Operation of Electronic Devices by Standard Transmission Mediums""). More Info. |
| 03/07/2005 | Court granted Stealth motion to change venue to the Southern District of Texas Houston Division. More Info. |
| 03/15/2005 | Absolute disclosed to the US patent office the existence of the Baran patent (Asserted against Absolute in the present litigation). |
08/15/2005 | |
| 02/06/2007 | |
03/06/2007 | The US Patent office issued a final rejection for one of the latest Absolute patent applications based only on the Baran patent (Stealth exclusive licensed patent). More Info. |
03/12/2007 | Absolute’s president John Livingston sold 300,000 of his shares. More Info. |
| 03/17/2007 | Court has appointed expert on Internet and network protocols as special master for this case. |
| 05/01/2007 | Absolute files a public shareholders report identifying Stealth Signal, Inc as the party suing Absolute for patent infringement and failing to inform that the trial is currently set for June 1/2007. (page 4) |
| 07/27/2007 | Markman Hearing Transcripts |
| 02/08/2008 | Special Master's Report and Recommendation on Claim Construction. Special master agreed with Stealth on claim terms: " Automatically, Providing, Contacting, Global Network, Location, Surreptitiously of a user, Performance data, Performance feature, Monitor means, Formatting means, Transmission means, Decoding means, Interpretation means, Central site monitoring means" |