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This sounds like good news:

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>             December 20, 2007
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> *NINESTAR PRESS RELEASE:* ZHUHAI, China \ufffd Recently, the United States 
> Patent and Trademark Office has issued an office action, which rejects 
> Seiko Epson's two patents, including claims 1-6, 8-14 and 16-22 of U.S 
> Patent No.6,502,917( the \ufffd917\ufffd patent) , and claims 
> 1-8,15-17,19-23,26-30,33 and 37-39 of U.S. Patent No. 7,008,053(the\ufffd 
> 053\ufffd patent), for the reason that the patents applied some prior art 
> and was lack of novelty and creativity. This rejection by U.S. PTO is 
> in response to Ninestar\ufffds request to re-examine the invalidity of the 
> patents <http://www.rechargermag.com/articles/48147/> in September 2007.
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> According to Ninestar, this initial rejection of the \ufffd917\ufffd patent and 
> \ufffd053\ufffd patent by the U.S.PTO will raise a question of rationality of 
> the order issued by ITC and create favorable conditions for Ninestar's 
> legal cases in the Federal Circuit Court in the future and for 
> Ninestar to continuously sell its own patented products in the U.S. 
> market.