This reexamination is concluded, but that doesn't mean this patent can't ever be challenged again.

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I think it's stupid that this type of policy is legal and profitable.

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The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

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