MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
JEFFREY COLE, United States Magistrate Judge.
The plaintiff filed for a patent on a plastic pipe coupler—Patent No. 6,851,726 ("726 patent")—on August 23, 1999. It's a short length of sturdy plastic tube, with threads spiraling their way from both ends toward the center—think jar lid, with the lid being one end of the coupler and the pipe being the jar. In the center, there is a stop so that the pipes...
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