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The IP Scanbuy uses is in large part covered by patents owned by Neomedia. Neomedia has sued Scanbuy over the infringement. The case was stayed pending the outcome of an ex parte challenge to one of the patents lodged by the Electronic Frontier Foundation with the USPTO. USPTO has just ruled that all of the 95 claims in the concerned patent are patentable, although it did permit Neomedia to consolidate those claims into 89. And Neomedia was also permitted to state several claims with more specificity.

There is no doubt that this was a big win for Neomedia, despite the EFF's spin that the patent was somehow "narrowed". The truth is the patent still covers exactly the invention Neomedia wants it to cover and it is that invention that Scanbuy is alleged, in the suit, to be infringing.

Scanbuy is probably not a bad investment, but it is now far more likely that they will have to license Nomedia's IP at some point.