Supreme Court Petition Draft –Version 3 Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 19:49:35
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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IN RE PROSKAUER ROSE LLP, MELTZER )LIPPE & GOLDSTEIN LLP, RAYMOND A. )JOAO, RYJO INC, RYAN HUISMAN, )WILLIAM J. DICK, DOUGLAS A. BOEHM, )FOLEY & LARDNER LLP, GERALD R. )LEWIN, ERIKA LEWIN, GOLDSTEIN )LEWIN & CO., BRIAN G. UTLEY, RAYMOND)T. HERSCH, MICHAEL A. REALE, F. ROSS ) Notice of Motion andMILLER, TIEDEMANN PROLOW IILLC, ) Motion for Leave toCARL TIEDEMANN, BRUCE PROLOW, ) Proceed In Forma PauperisCRAIG SMITH, SCHIFFRIN & BARROWAY )LLP, HONORABLE JORGE LABARGA, and )BLAKELY SOKOLOFF TAYLOR & )ZAFMAN LLP IIPATENT POOLSNDA’SALL LAW FIRMSDONALD KANEJEFFREY FRIEDSTEIN
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SHELDON FRIEDSTEINGOLDMAN SACHSSTEVEN C. KRANEFLORIDA BARMATTHEW TRIGGSERIC MONTEL TURNERTHOMAS J. CAHILL )
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ELIOT I. BERNSTEIN AND )P. STEPHEN LAMONT )AND AS PRO-SE REPRESENTATIVES ON BEHALF OF THE SHAREHOLDERS AND INVENTORS OF:
IVIEWIT HOLDINGS, INC.IVIEWIT HOLDINGS, INC.ETC… ELLEN DEGENERES ALANIS MORRISETTE ALPINE/CROSSBOW VENTURES INVESTECH HOLDINGS/H. WAYNE HUIZENGA JR. ETC.
)Petitioners. )
The object of the patent law is to secure inventors what they have actually invented or discovered, and it ought not to be defeated by a too strict and technical adherence to the letter of the statute or by the application of artificial rules of interpretation.
COME NOW the Petitioners, ELIOT I. BERNSTEIN (“BERNSTEIN”) and P.
STEPHEN LAMONT (“LAMONT”), ETC. to request that this Court enter an
order granting a motion for leave to proceed In Forma Pauperis and in support state
as follows:
1. That Petitioners are possessing of minimal resources for such proceedings
according to Exhibit A.
IVIEWIT PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEY/CLIENT PRIVILEGED INFORMATION
Mr. Justice Brown
Topliff v. TopliffUnited States Supreme Court
145 U.S. 156, 171 (1892)
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2. Explain why company and EIB are financially unable to mount defense.
a. Money was stolen
b. Involuntary BK defense
c. IV v. PR defense
d. IV v Bars
e. IV v POOLS
f. IV v NDA’s
g. Number of defendants and infringers
h. Investors afraid to invest, not sure what they own now
i. Cost to mount defense must be encumbered by legal system that
caused mess
WHEREFORE, Petitioners request that this Court enter an order granting a
motion for leave to proceed In Forma Pauperis together with such other and further
relief as tThis Court deems just and equitable.
This __ day of October 2004
Attorney for PetitionerEliot I. Bernstein, Pro Se10158 Stonehenge Circle, #801Boynton Beach, Fla. 33437Tel.: (561) 364-4240
By: Eliot I. Bernstein
By: _______________________ Eliot I. Bernstein – President, Founder & InventorIviewit Holdings, Inc.
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P. Stephen Lamont, Pro SeFour Ward StreetBrewster, N.Y. 10509Tel.: (914) 217-0038
By: P. Stephen Lamont
By: _____________________ P. Stephen Lamont – CEO Iviewit Holdings, Inc.
Affidavit of Service
I hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing was furnished by certified mail this __ day of October 2004, to Proskauer Rose LLP, Meltzer Lippe & Goldstein LLP, Raymond A. Joao, Ryjo Inc., Ryan Huisman, William J. Dick, Douglas A. Boehm, Foley & Lardner LLP, Gerald R. Lewin, Erika Lewin, Goldstein Lewin & Co., Brian G. Utley, Raymond T. Hersch, Michael A Reale, F. Ross Miller,
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Tiedemann Prolow LLC, Carl Tiedemann, Bruce Prolow, Craig Smith, Schiffrin & Barroway LLP, Honorable Jorge Labarga, and Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP.
Eliot I. Bernstein
CERTIFICATE OF AFFIRMATION
STATE OF FLORIDACOUNTY OF PALM BEACH
Before me, the undersigned authority, personally appeared Eliot I. Bernstein, who was duly sworn and says, “I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is
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true and correct. Executed on this __ day of October 2004 the facts alleged in the foregoing complaint are true.”
Eliot I. Bernstein
Notary Public
STATE OF NEW YORKCOUNTY OF WESTCHESTER
Before me, the undersigned authority, personally appeared P. Stephen Lamont, who was duly sworn and says, “I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on this __ day of October 2004 the facts alleged in the foregoing complaint are true.”
P. Stephen Lamont
Notary Public
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EXHIBIT “A”
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[INSERT INCOME, EXPENSE, NET WORTH FORMS]
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
IN RE PROSKAUER ROSE LLP, MELTZER )LIPPE & GOLDSTEIN LLP, RAYMOND A. )JOAO, RYJO INC, RYAN HUISMAN, )WILLIAM J. DICK, DOUGLAS A. BOEHM, )FOLEY & LARDNER LLP, GERALD R. )LEWIN, ERIKA LEWIN, GOLDSTEIN )LEWIN & CO., BRIAN G. UTLEY, RAYMOND)T. HERSCH, MICHAEL A. REALE, F. ROSS ) Notice of Motion andMILLER, TIEDEMANN PROLOW IILLC, ) Motion for Leave toCARL TIEDEMANN, BRUCE PROLOW, ) File a Petition for an CRAIG SMITH, SCHIFFRIN & BARROWAY ) Extraordinary WritLLP, HONORABLE JORGE LABARGA, and )BLAKELY SOKOLOFF TAYLOR & )ZAFMAN LLP II )
)ELIOT I. BERNSTEIN AND )P. STEPHEN LAMONT )
)Petitioners. )
COME NOW the Petitioners, ELIOT I. BERNSTEIN (“BERNSTEIN”) and P.
STEPHEN LAMONT (“LAMONT”), to request that this Court enter an order
granting a motion for leave to file a petition for an Extraordinary Writ and in
support state as follows.
“Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to
observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.”
Justice Thomas Clark
Mapp v. Ohio
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1. That Petitioners show that the writ is in the aid of the Court’s appellate
jurisdiction as due process of law has been denied Petitioners at various times and
in various forums as described herein.
2. That Petitioners show that exceptional circumstances warrant the exercise of the
Court’s discretionary powers as from the very inception of the inventions of
Petitioners (“Technology”) (PATENT LIST) and others, powerful forces (@4K
LAWYERS FROM MAJOR LAW FIRMS HAVE ADVERSE INTEREST; 3@
PATENT POOL MEMBERS; 500 NDA VIOLATORS AND ON A GLOBAL
BASIS, have assembled against Petitioners using unlawful means, AS FULLY
DEFINED IN EXHIBIT B (FEDERAL COMPLAINT TEMPLATE) AND ALL
EVIDENCES CONTAINED THEREIN to circumvent theUSE THE Technology
WITHOUT PAYING ROYALTIES DUE including, but not limited to:
3. POINT TO FEDERAL AND STATE CRIMINAL CODES THAT WERE
VIOLATED.
4. EXPLAIN PATENT SUSPENSIONS CAUSED BY FILING OF FRAUD ON
USPTO
a. Knowing and willful missing of the core subject matter of the patent
applications of the Technology; and
b. Knowing and willful misstatement of inventors in the patent
applications of the Technology; and
c. Knowing and willful wrongful assignments of the patent applications
of the Technology by means of a corporation forming “shell game” as
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to which affiliated companies held assignment to which patent
applications; and
d. As part and parcel of the corporate “shell game,” the unauthorized
formation of similarly named companies in different States so as to
confuse Petitioners as to which similarly named companies held
assignment to which Technology; and
e. Knowing and willful duplication of patent applications of the
Technology under differing titles amongst the United States Patent
and Trademark Office (“USPTO”), the European Patent Office
(“EPO”), and the Japanese Patent Office (“JPO”); and
f. Knowing and willful filing of patent applications of the Technology to
an individual who played no part in the invention stage of the
Technology and without assignment to any entity affiliated with
Petitioners whereby the USPTO has denied Petitioners’ request for
information on these particular patent applications; and
g. Knowing and willful creation of false intellectual property documents
by patent counsels, the dockets of which Petitioners have used to
secure investment capital; and
h. The misappropriation and conversion of up to One Million Dollars
($1,000,000) or more of funds of Petitioners invested in affiliated
companies; and
i. Where all of the above have caused the Petitioners to face critical time
deadlines for repair of subject matter, repair of inventorship, repair
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of assignments, resurrection, and in some cases refilling of patent
applications of the Technology.
j. WHERE RIGHTS HAVE BEEN LOST ALREADY BY THESE
ACTIONS IN FILING FOR GLOBAL PROTECTION AND HAVE
CAUSED LOSS OF CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHTS
OF INVENTORS. DAMAGES FOR GLOBAL LOSS OF PATENT
RIGHTS ESTIMATED TO BE 30-40 BILLION IF
UNRECOVERABLE BY ACTIONS OF THIS COURT THAT
RECAPTURE LOST RIGHTS BOTH IN THE US AND THROUGH
TREATISE WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
k. THAT DUE PROCESS HAS BEEN DENIED AND CAUSED
FURTHER LOSS OF RIGHTS, THAT PATENT OFFICE
EXTENSIONS AND CORRECTIONS ARE NECESSARY
IMMEDIATELY BEFORE REMAINING RIGHTS ARE
FORFEITED. THIS IS WHY SUSPENDED IN US,
l.
5. That Petitioners state that adequate relief cannot be obtained in any other form
or from any other court as follows:
a. In Proskauer Rose LLP v. Iviewit.com, Inc. et. al., Case No. CA 01-
04671 AB (Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit in and for Palm
Beach County, Florida filed May 2, 2001) (“Litigation”) wherein the
court denies a Motion for Leave to Amend Answer and Counter
Claim for Damages due to timing issues of any amended answer.
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Where in fact it appears that Defendants created a suit as a means of
harassment and attempts at burying certain companies which may
have been set up to misappropriate patents and where for several
months the Company was unaware that it was even in litigation and
being represented by counsel. Once represented by counsel, company
was never given a chance to assert proper defense and when trial
came time, judge relieved all corporate counsel for company and
would not allow pro-se filing by inventor or shareholders. Default
judgement was granted to PR for IV failing to retain counsel. Iviewit
had deposed attorney’s and found perjured statements to court versus
statements to supreme court bar responses; and
b. In the Litigation, the court’scourts granting motions of counsel of
Petitioners to withdraw at the same hearing on the same day and at
the same time leaving Petitioners inadequate time to retain new
counsel in a complex case, denying due process through denying
counsel. Exhibit C – SB Deal was supposed to provide counsel and
instead set company up to lose with no counsel; and
c. In the Litigation, that the Judge Labaraga ruled on a motion
submitted to have his conduct reviewed and him removed from the
case for outrageous conduct. Iviewit had two counsels Selz and SB
and both were let go because they stated to court that the other was
going to represent company. cCourt’s unilateral denial of a Motion to
Set Aside the Amended Order Striking the Defendants Pleadings and
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Entering a Default Against the Defendants for Failure to Retain
Replacement Counsel (“Amended Order”), Reinstate the Pleadings,
and Remove Hon. Jorge Labarga From the Proceedings; and
d. The dismissal without investigation, by The Florida Bar, of the
Petitioners’ Complaint Against Christopher C. Wheeler The Florida
Bar File No. 2003-51,109 (15C) (“Wheeler Complaint”), a member of
Proskauer Rose LLP (“Proskauer”), on grounds inapposite to the
rules of The Florida Bar; and
e. The Florida Bar issuing statements in favor of Proskauer position
when no investigation into the matters had been formally done,
inapposite of the rules.
f. In conflict with Supreme Court of Florida and it’s aegis The Florida
Bar due to insurance issues whereby a conflict of interest was
discovered in the Wheeler complaint by Wheeler’s Proskauer
attorney, Matthew Triggs, who violated his public office position as
Grievance Committee member, representing Wheeler when he was in
a blackout period excluding him from representing anyone without
The Florida Bar Board express waiver and approval. Whereby
Triggs was also simultaneously in conflict as he represented Wheeler
in a Bar complaint and was in a private litigation against similar
parties, in similarly related matters. This access to private
government files for use in private litigation also represents an abuse
of public office.
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g. That once notified of the conflict of interest, The Florida Bar
attempted to destroy the file records twice and the Supreme Court of
Florida interceded on Iviewit’s behalf and stopped the destruction of
the very files necessary to review the conflict discovered and
acknowledged by The Florida Bar. That the matter is further being
reviewed by the Florida Supreme Court in case SC104-1078
h. That further denial of due process has occurred by the Florida Bar in
failing to file complaints that were formally filed with their offices,
involving the conflicts of interest and those involved.
i. That The Florida Bar has further denied Plaintiff, access to records
on its public officials to further define the conflict and has in fact
resisted all requests by the Company for information.
j. The deferment, with no investigation, by the First Judicial
Department Departmental Disciplinary Committee (New York) of the
Petitioners’ Complaint Against Raymond A. Joao Docket 2003.0532
(“Joao Complaint”) formerly of counsel to Meltzer Lippe Goldstein
and Schlissel LLP and Complaint Against Kenneth Rubenstein
Docket 2003.0531 (“Rubenstein Complaint”) a member of Proskauer,
both since ordered to an investigation by New York’s Appellate
Division, First Department, after an eighteen (18) month delay that
jeopardizes the timely patent prosecution of the Technology; and
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k. Conflict of interest and the appearance of impropriety in another
public officer and Proskauer partner, Steven C. Krane, in the
response of Rubenstein.
l. That Steven C. Krane has been reworking his former website
advertisement and biography in a further attempt to conceal and
deny a verified conflict by Clerk of the Supreme Court Catherine
O’Hagan Wolfe and in fact fails to list his current role as a Referee at
the First Department. Mr. Krane in responding pro-se in a complaint
lodged against him, concealed such Referee role and attempted to
deny any conflict with the First Department. Thomas Cahill
supported this position and Wolfe uncovered this. Wolfe directed
Petitioner to file a Petition with the First Dept and Cahill filed first
after it was requested that he be admonished further involvement in
the matters due to conflict. That this was completely overlooked by
the NY SC in review makes further a case of denial due process or
procedure.
m. Conflict of interest and the appearance of impropriety in the handling
of the Cahill petition after notice of conflict and complaint.
n. Steven C. Krane is embedded so deeply within the ethics and attorney
discipline system that a fair and impartial hearing must elevate
beyond New York to an unbiased third party oversight. Conflicts
with Krane exist in the following forums;
i. ABA
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ii. NY Bar
iii. NY SC First Dept
iv. Judith Kaye
o. The dismissal with no investigation, by the Virginia State Bar, of the
Petitioners’ Complaint Against William J. Dick VSB Docket #04-052-
1366, formerly a special counsel to Foley Lardner LLP, on grounds
inapposite to the rules of the Virginia State Bar and based on false
and misleading statements by Dick to the VA Bar of the factual
outcome of the NY SC First Dept cases, The Florida Bar outcome and
the Proskauer v. Iviewit case, in fact claiming that the case and the
counter complaint had been tried when it factually was not. Calls and
letters to notify the VA Bar of information which was falsified by
Dick, including patent portfolio’s with materially false and misleading
information regarding patents which have been confirmed false by the
USPTO and complete avoidance to have the case elevated to next
highest level of review; and
p. The dismissal with no investigation, by the Pennsylvania State Bar, of
the Petitioners’ Complaint Against Andrew L. Barroway and Krishna
B. Narine, docket numbers never assigned, both formerly investors,
general counsel, and patent counsel to Petitioners, on grounds
inexplicable to Petitioners and further lack of returned phone calls by
the PA Bar in an effort to deny a further elevation of the complaints
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further supports the appearance of impropriety that may have
permeated the PA Bar; and
q. The delay of the USPTO to file charges against attorneys involved in
these matters, causing actions to attempt to suspend the patents
pending the outcome of investigations by the USPTO Commissioner
and Harry I. Moatz of the OED.
r. The delay of the USPTO to send Petitioners files, commonly referred
to as “file wrappers” since the first request of on or about February
2004, with subsequent requests still unanswered, causing further
delay in assessing damages to shareholders and attempting to secure
US & foreign patent rights; and
s. The uncloaking of a conflict of interest and impropriety in the
Rubenstein Complaint, the Krane Complaint and the Joao Complaint
that moved Appellate Division caused by Steven C. Krane’s responses
on behalf of himself and Rubenstein while holding a multiplicity of
conflicting roles at the First Department, causing Chief Counsel
Thomas Cahill of the NY SC First Department to finallyFirst
Department to petition the Supreme Court Appellate Division: First
Dept to move the complaints to a new jurisdiction and investigation
after an eighteen (18) month delay that jeopardizes and that the
Supreme Court of New York has ruled to have the complaints moved
due to conflicts of interest and the appearance of impropriety further
hampering the timely patent prosecution of the Technology. Cahill’s
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failure to acknowledge the conflicts and file Plaintiff’s complaints
against Krane and further denial of Krane’s positions with the
Department further support the denial of due process. Finally, the
NY SC ruling to deny Plaintiff disclosure of necessary information
regarding department positions held by Krane and others; and
t. The conflict of interest and impropriety in the Rubenstein Complaint
and the Joao Complaint demonstrates to Petitioners that adequate
relief, with respect to the complaints, cannot be obtained in any other
form or from any other court in the State of New York; and
u. The uncloaking of a conflict of interest and impropriety in the
Wheeler Complaint that moved the Supreme Court of Florida to stay
the destruction of the file to the Wheeler Complaint with other
motions pending after an eighteen (18) month delay that jeopardizes
the timely patent prosecution of the Technology. The destruction of a
file after notification of a confirmed conflict of interest and the denial
of filing complaints filed with The Florida Bar further supports the
denial of due-process; and
v. The conflict of interest and impropriety in the Wheeler Complaint
demonstrates to Petitioners that adequate relief, with respect to the
complaint, cannot be obtained in any other form or from any other
court in the State of Florida, as this conflict now causes insurance
issues as stated in the Bylaws of The Florida Bar which covers
Grievance Committee members and Plaintiff has asked The Florida
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Bar to report such catastrophic liability such as the loss of patents
rights due to the delays and denial of due process that could have
prevented loss had due process been applied free of conflict and the
appearance of impropriety now before the Florida Supreme Court;
and
w. The steadfast refusal, as of even date herein, of The Florida Bar to
docket a complaint by Petitioners against Eric Montel Turner, Chief
Branch Discipline Counsel of The Florida Bar, demonstrates to
Petitioners that adequate relief, with respect to the complaint, cannot
be obtained in any other form or from any other court in the State of
Florida; and
x. The lack of communication from The Florida Bar concerning the
complaints of Petitioners against Matthew H. Triggs, a member of
Proskauer, who was in multiple conflicts of interest and abuses of
public office in his representation of Wheeler and a second complaint
against Christopher C. Wheeler, demonstrates to Petitioners that
adequate relief, with respect to the complaints, cannot be obtained in
any other form or from any other court in the State of Florida; and
y. The conflicted relationship of The Florida Bar president Kelly
Overstreet Johnson who is oversighted by James Wheeler at the law
firm of Broad & Cassell, and James Wheeler is the brother of
Christopher Wheeler, whom the Florida Bar complaint was initially
filed against as the main protagonist in the conspiracy to steal
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Technology of Petitioner. That Kelly Overstreet Johnson received
several months of correspondences marked private and confidential
regarding Mr. Wheeler’s case and never disclosed her conflict until
after the conflict of interest was found in Mr. Wheeler’s complaint
with Matthew Triggs and then Plaintiff was called by Anthony Bogg’s
stating the Johnson could not participate in the matters.
z. The delay inherent in responding to the written statement of
Petitioners to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, West Palm Beach,
Fla. after an eighteen (18) month period jeopardizes the timely patent
prosecution of the Technology; and
aa. The delay inherent in responding to the written statement of
Petitioners to the Boca Raton, Fla. Police Department after an
eighteen (18) month period jeopardizes the timely patent prosecution
of the Technology; and
WHEREFORE, Petitioners request that this Court enter an order granting a
motion for leave to file a petition for an extraordinary writ together with such other
and further relief as this Court deems just and equitable.
This __ day of October 2004
Attorney for PetitionerEliot I. Bernstein, Pro Se10158 Stonehenge Circle, #801Boynton Beach, Fla. 33437Tel.: (561) 364-4240
By: Eliot I. Bernstein
P. Stephen Lamont, Pro Se
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Four Ward StreetBrewster, N.Y. 10509Tel.: (914) 217-0038
By: P. Stephen Lamont
Affidavit of Service
I hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing was furnished by certified mail this __ day of October 2004, to Proskauer Rose LLP, Meltzer, Lippe & Goldstein, LLP, Raymond A. Joao, Ryjo, Inc., Ryan Huisman, William J. Dick, Douglas A. Boehm, Foley & Lardner LLP, Gerald R. Lewin, Erika Lewin, Goldstein Lewin & Co., Brian G. Utley, Raymond T. Hersch, Michael A Reale, F. Ross Miller, Tiedemann Prolow LLC, Carl Tiedemann, Bruce Prolow, Craig Smith, Schiffrin & Barroway LLP, Honorable Jorge Labarga, and Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP.
Eliot I. Bernstein
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II
CERTIFICATE OF AFFIRMATION
STATE OF FLORIDACOUNTY OF PALM BEACH
Before me, the undersigned authority, personally appeared Eliot I. Bernstein, who was duly sworn and says that “I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on this __ day of October 2004 the facts alleged in the foregoing complaint are true.”
Eliot I. Bernstein
Notary Public
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STATE OF NEW YORKCOUNTY OF WESTCHESTER
Before me, the undersigned authority, personally appeared P. Stephen Lamont, who was duly sworn and says that “I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on this __ day of October 2004 the facts alleged in the foregoing complaint are true.”
P. Stephen Lamont
Notary Public
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
IN RE PROSKAUER ROSE LLP, MELTZER )LIPPE & GOLDSTEIN LLP, RAYMOND A. )JOAO, RYJO INC, RYAN HUISMAN, )WILLIAM J. DICK, DOUGLAS A. BOEHM, )FOLEY & LARDNER LLP, GERALD R. )LEWIN, ERIKA LEWIN, GOLDSTEIN )LEWIN & CO., BRIAN G. UTLEY, RAYMOND)T. HERSCH, MICHAEL A. REALE, F. ROSS ) Briefs in Support of the MILLER, TIEDEMANN PROLOW IILLC, ) Motions for Leave to CARL TIEDEMANN, BRUCE PROLOW, ) Proceed In Forma PauperisCRAIG SMITH, SCHIFFRIN & BARROWAY ) and to File a Petition for an LLP, HONORABLE JORGE LABARGA, and ) Extraordinary WritBLAKELY SOKOLOFF TAYLOR & )
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ZAFMAN LLP II ) )
ELIOT I. BERNSTEIN AND )P. STEPHEN LAMONT )
)Petitioners. )
BRIEFS IN SUPPORT OF THE MOTIONS FOR LEAVE TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS AND TO FILE A PETITION FOR AN EXTRAORDINARY
WRIT
COME NOW the Petitioners, ELIOT I. BERNSTEIN (“BERNSTEIN”) and P.
STEPHEN LAMONT (“LAMONT”), to brief this Court in motions for leave to
proceed In Forma Pauperis and to file a petition for an extraordinary writ and in
support state as follows:
QUESTION FOR REVIEW
Whether the circumstances surrounding the Petitioners, consisting of the alleged
violation of their constitutional rights as inventors and the denial of due process of
law when combined with the need for the appellate jurisdiction of this Court and
the factual setting that adequate relief cannot be obtained in any other form or from
any other court, are sufficient in of themselves to request review by this Court so as
to minimize the damages Petitioners have incurred and forestall the continued
jeopardy of the timely patent prosecution of the Technology.
PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING
The parties to the proceed are:
1. Proskauer Rose LLP, a New York Limited Liability Partnership and its
members, former general and patent counsel to Petitioners; and
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2. Meltzer Lippe Goldstein LLP (“MLG”), a New York Limited Liability
Partnership and its members, former patent counsel to Petitioners; and
3. Raymond A. Joao, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of New
York and a former of counsel to MLG, one of the former patent counsels for
Petitioners; and
4. Ryjo, Inc., upon information and belief, a Florida corporation, and one of the
initial potential licensees of the Technology; and
5. Ryan Huisman, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida, and
a principal of Ryjo, Inc.; and
6. Foley & Lardner LLP, a Wisconsin Limited Liability Partnership and its
members, former patent counsel to Petitioners; and
7. William J. Dick, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida,
formerly a special counsel to Foley Lardner LLP and one of the former
patent counsels for Petitioners; and
8. Douglas A. Boehm, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Illinois,
formerly a member of Foley Lardner LLP and one of the former patent
counsels for Petitioners; and
9. Goldstein Lewin & Co., a Florida corporation, and outside CPA firm for
Petitioners; and
10. Gerald R. Lewin, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida, a
former outside CPA for Petitioners; and
11. Erika Lewin, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida, a
former outside CPA for Petitioners; and
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12. Brian G. Utley, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Minnesota,
a former President and Chief Operating Officer of affiliated entities related
to Petitioners; and
13. Raymond T. Hersch, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of
Florida, a former Chief Financial Officer of affiliated entities related to
Petitioners; and
14. Michael A Reale, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida, a
former Vice President of Operations of affiliated entities related to
Petitioners; and
15. F. Ross Miller, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Georgia, a
former Consultant of affiliated entities related to Petitioners; and
16. Tiedemann Prolow LLC, a New York Limited Liability Company, and one of
the institutional investors of affiliated entities related to Petitioners; and
17. Carl Tiedemann, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of New York,
a principal of Tiedemann Prolow LLC; and
18. Bruce Prolow, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of New York, a
principal of Tiedemann Prolow LLC; and
19. Craig Smith, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of New York, a
principal of Tiedemann Prolow LLC; and
20. Schiffrin & Barroway LLP, a Pennsylvania Limited Liability Partnership,
and former investors, patent counsel, and general counsel to affiliated entities
related to Petitioners; and
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21. Honorable Jorge Labarga, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of
Florida, the presiding judge in the Litigation; and
22. Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP, a California Limited Liability
Partnership, and former patent counsel to Petitioners; and
23. Eliot I. Bernstein, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida,
the principal inventor of the Technology; and
24. P. Stephen Lamont, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of New
York, and Chief Executive Officer of affiliated entities related to Petitioners.
STATEMENT OF JURISDICTION
This Court has the final word on all Constitutional questions arising in the Federal
Courts and all Federal questions arising in the State Courts.
Petitioners rely on Rule 20.1, Procedure for the Granting of an Extraordinary Writ,
of the Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States, wherein such rule states:
“[T]he petition must show that the writ will be in the aid of the Court’s appellate
jurisdiction, that exceptional circumstances warrant the exercise of the Court’s
discretionary powers, and that adequate relief cannot be obtained in any other form
or any other court.”1
CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS
Petitioners request review of the question stated herein and rely on Article 1,
Section 8, Clause 8 afforded by the Constitution of the United States that states: “To
promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to
1 Blue Book Citiation…
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Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and
Discoveries.”2
Second, Petitioners request review of the question stated herein and rely on V
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that states:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime,
unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases
arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in
time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same
offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in
any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life,
liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property
be taken for public use, without just compensation3.
Third, Petitioners request review of the question stated herein and rely on XIV
Amendment, Section 1 to the Constitution of the United States that states:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein
they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State
deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws4.
2 Blue Book Citation…3 Blue Book Citation…4 Blue Book Citation
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Fourth, Petitioners request review of the conflicting Supreme Court decisions in
New York & Florida and request This Court allow Iviewit to be represented by pro-
se counsel until This Court can appoint counsel that is not in conflict with Petitioner
and protected from the backlash of the Defendants, including the State Bar
Associations of four states.
Fifth, Petitioner states that the time of appeals, all which would inevitably end up at
This Court make lower courts futile as patent rights will be lost in the interim on a
US and global basis. Time to suspensions is now.
Sixth, that all state court’s end up at the state supreme courts, where conflict
already exists with the Supreme Courts, leading to Federal intervention of This
Court in negating further conflicts.
Seventh, that the issues of trust in the patent system instituted to protect inventors
by the constitution is at stake and that if the denial of patent rights occurs due to the
system to protect them, than this jeopardizes the entire notion of free commerce.
Eight, that the issue of trust in the State Bar Associations to adequately administer
justice to it’s own members is so in question, that this matter makes the State Bar’s
more a defacto attorney protection agency than a system of due process under the
law, acting as a shield and accomplice to attorney malfeasances, including aiding in
these instances of fraud upon the USPTO by unwillingness of the legal system to
prosecute or investigate consumer complaints against attorneys.
Ninth, being that Plaintiff is now in direct conflict with two State Supreme Courts
through the Supreme Court of Florida – The Florida Bar in a case regarding the
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same nexus of events, Bersntein, et. al. v. The Florida Bar, whereby The Florida Bar
and thus the Supreme Court is conflicted entirely and should be precluded from
reviewing a matter in which conflict exists. Conflict further exists since the
insurance policy covering Grievance Committee Members, which on information
and belief, The Florida Bar may have vested interest inapposite of the Petitioner
including interests adverse to a liability claim that could effect the Supreme Court
of Florida. That because of conflict, it appears that Florida Supreme Court cannot
investigate and rule on matters whereby it is conflicted.
Tenth, that in regard to the petition from Thomas Cahill, an officer of the New York
Supreme Court Appellate Division: First Department Departmental Disciplinary
Committee and the further involvement of Steven C. Krane whom has a broad
array of roles in the rule creation and enforcement at the New York Supreme Court
Appellate Division: First Department Departmental Disciplinary Committee and
other positions including past President of the New York Bar Association, yes, that
very same Steven C. Krane whom teaches ethics stands accussed of conflict of
interest and the appearance of impropriety, that involve covering up Bar complaints
for his partners at Proskauer Rose LLP at the First Department with undisclosed
conflicts and then later concealed conflicts whereby with malice he hid positions
that have now caused conflict of interest and appearance of impropriety to be cited
by Chief Counsel Cahill and ruled on by the New York Supreme Court Appellate
Division: First Department causing a transfer of the cases to the New York Supreme
Court Appellate Division: Second Department for investigation. Petitioner states
that this is a lateral move by the First Department and further stymies swift and
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immediate justice. The NYSC also ruled that the remainder of the Petitioner’s
petition submitted was denied, and whereby relief would have forced disclosure of
information necessary for the speedy investigation of the conflict of Krane. Further,
prior to petitioning the court to move the complaints, Cahill vehemently resisted
filing complaints against Krane, promulgating false and misleading information to
Petitioner and after receiving a copy of a formal complaint against himself, asking
for his removal from the matter due to his conflict, the complaint sent in proper
procedure to the Chair of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division: First
Department Departmental Disciplinary Committee, Paul J. Curran, Esq.
Moreover, although the complaints of Rubenstein, Krane and Joao have all been
moved to the Second Dept, Cahill has not been. Here we find the New York
Supreme Court Appellate Division: First Deptarment attempting to investigate a
matter whereby conflict is inherent.
Question: If state supreme court’s are conflicted with Petitioner, is there any other
court than US SC that can. For example, say the SC were involved and played a
part through the state bar association to cover up, who would investigate them?
What if NY wants to assert that Florida Bar is guilty of aiding and abetting because
payola and Florida Supreme Court in conflict with Petitioner does not want to press
charges on itself because of laibility? Can any other court other than USSC
investigate and if so found, charge the SC with crimes or charge those involved?
Here we have two Supreme Courts in total conflict with Petitioner, perhaps with
extraordinary liability (perhaps conflicts run as deep as Hon. Judith Kaye in NY
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and to Pres of Bar in Florida Johnson where the appearance of impropriety is
known to exist with both with key alleged conspirators Krane and Wheeler)
So deep are these issues and the mere fact that This Court is the only court in the
land capable of disciplining the legal system and the internal affairs of the State
Bars and perhaps the patent system whereby this punishment so severe so as this
series of events never be replicated. Swift justice afforded due process under the
wing of This Court, and the prompt and immediate return to the rightful inventors
their inventions from for lack of better description criminal attorneys. That these
attorney criminals and their accomplices have so jeopardized the legal system
through systematic abuse of the legal system to attempt a crime as heinous as this
attempt to deprive inventors their constitutional rights to their inventions, that This
Court being the highest and most revered court in the land, must administer such
punishment for the highest crimes committed against the United States as to parallel
high crimes against the United States of fraud and theft, and in fact, since the
Federal Small Business Administration is the single largest investor in the
petitioners companies, in fact they have attempted to abscond with the patents
owned by the United States Government, whereby royalties owed to the government
via it’s investment have been stolen, along with the patents invested in.
STATEMENT OF FACTS
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Contained in this Petition, and as summarized by the following graph, Petitioners
depict a conspiratorial pattern of fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation, that runs so
wide and so deep, that it tears at the very fabric of free commerce, and in that the
circumstances involve inventors’ rights, the pattern tears at the very fabric of the
Constitution of the United States.
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LACK OF DUE PROCESS AND INFRINGMENT OF INVENTORS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Petitioners
Robert Kafin, Christopher C. Wheeler, Kenneth Rubenstein
& Proskauer Rose LLP
Joint and several Malpractice, Theft of Trade Secrets,
Conspiracy
Prior Management &Certain Directors
Breach of Contract, Breach of Fiduciary Duties, Conspiracy
Huizenga Holdings
Theft of Trade Secrets,
Conspiracy
MPEG LA and other Infringers
Theft of Trade Secrets, Breach of Contract
Raymond A. Joao & MLG
Joint and several Malpractice, Theft of
Trade Secrets, Conspiracy
William Dick, et al & Foley Lardner
Joint and several Malpractice, Theft of Trade Secrets,
Conspiracy
Tiedemann/Prolow and Principals Breach of Fiduciary Duties, Grand theft,
Conspiracy
Conflicts of Interest, Impropriety, No
Investigation
The Florida Bar & Supreme Court
Joint and several Malpractice, Conspiracy
Conflicts of Interest, Impropriety, No
Investigation
BSTZ
NY Disc Comm’s & Appellate Division
15th Judicial Circuit (Florida)
Denied Motions: Counterclaim, Granted Motions: Counsel
Withdraws
FBI, Local PD, USPTO
More than 12 Mo. Delays, No
Investigation
SB
Joint and several Malpractice, Conspiracy
PATENT RIGHTS LOST!
PATENT RIGHTS LOST!
PATENT RIGHTS LOST!
PATENT RIGHTS LOST!PATENT RIGHTS LOST!
PATENT RIGHTS LOST!
PATENT RIGHTS LOST!
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FLOW CHART OF CRIMES
US & FOREIGN PATENT THEFT
COPYRIGHT THEFT
TRADEMARKS THEFT
ABUSE OF SC BAR AGENCIES
STOLEN SBA MONIES
FRAUD ON IVIEWIT
ETC.
ETC.
That Wheeler, was a partner of Proskauer Rose, LLP (“Proskauer”) and who
provided legal services to Petitioner.
That Rubenstein who at various times relevant hereto was initially misrepresented
by Wheeler as a partner of Proskauer and later became a partner of Proskauer, and
who provided legal services to the Petitioners both while at MLGS and Proskauer.
That Joao who initially was represented to be Rubenstein's associate at Proskauer,
when in fact Joao has never been an employee of Proskauer but in fact was an
employee of MLGS.
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That beginning in 1998, Petitioners held DISCLOSURE discussions with Wheeler
and Rubenstein with regard to Proskauer providing legal services to Petitioners
involving specific technologies developed by Eliot I. Bernstein (one of the Petitioners
in this matter) and two SEVERAL others, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO;
Zakirul Shirajee, JEFFREY FRIEDSTEIN, JAMES F. ARMSTRONG,
MATTHEW MINK, PATRICIA DANIELS, and Jude Rosario, Anthony Frenden,
collectively termed hereinafter (“Inventors”), which technologies allowed
forinvented, including but not limited to, the following inventions (“Technology”):
Mathematical Scaling Formula For Encoding & Playback of Video
I-View-It's revolutionary process for video compresses video at an incredible 75% less data than previous technologies by utilizing a scaled encode for large screen playback.
This process yields:
o File size for full screen representation reduced by 75% making high impact full screen video available for download at any bandwidtho Less processing power required for full screen data by 75%o Full-screen, full-frame rate video (including high quality stereo) at previously before unthinkable levels 150-300 Kbpso At lesser 28-56Kbps bandwidths this process provides a markedly improved video quality over prior Internet industry standardso The process has applications on the higher ends of the encoding and bandwidth spectrums such as HDDVD and beyondo As a result of the efficiencies created by the I-View-It scaled video processes on the encoding and decoding systems, these applications may yield efficiencies in High Definition markets.Applications include; creates low bandwidth video communication market such as video cell phones (previously impossible
Mathematical Scaling Formula For Encoding & Viewing Images with Enhanced Zoom & Pan Capabilities
The I-View-It proprietary imaging system is designed to provide clear, sharp images, which can be zoomed into at great depth, and panned around at the discretion of the viewer, or under program control. The resulting experience is one of full immersion into the image and an ability to view detail at a level previously thought impossible at low resolution, making it ideal in any viewing medium and applicable to all hardware and software.
This process yields:
o User controlled zoom & pan for screen applicationso Resilient to pixel distortion when magnified over 200x, solving the age old problem of pixelation upon zoom on standard low resolution image file formats
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o The image scaling process is applicable to every known screen for imagingo Allows new user controlled zoom & pan for imaging and video applianceso Applications include; digital cameras, televisions, video cameras, DVD players, scanners, printers & copierso Easily integrates into Hardware and Software Applications
Combined I-View-It video and imaging processes to create a user interface allowing camera control and zoomable video streams.
o Allows user to take video feeds and pan & zoom on individual frames or streams.o Ideal for the security market and sports eventso May apply to all video playback devices
Zooming of digital images and video without degradation to the quality of the digital
image due to what is commonly refereed to as "pixelation"; and,
The delivery of digital video using proprietary scaling techniques whereby a
seventy-five percent (75%) bandwidth savings was discovered and a corresponding
seventy-five percent (75%) processing power decrease and storage efficiency were
realized; and,
A combination of the image zoom techniques and video scaling techniques described
above; and,
i. The remote control of video cameras through communications networks.
That Inventors and later Petitioners, initially engaged the services of Proskauer to
provide legal services to a company to be formed, including corporate formation
and governance for a single entity and to obtain multiple patents and overseefile US
and foreign filings for such technologies including the provisional filings for the
technologies as described above, ("Technology"), and such other activities as were
necessary to protect the intellectual property represented by the Technology.
That the Technology, when bundled with third-party technologies, provides for
VHS quality video at transmission speeds of 56Kbps (“modem dial-up connection”),
previously thought to be impossible, to improved DVD quality at up to 6MB per
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second at 75% lower bandwidth than previously obtainable (traditional terrestrial
or broadcast station to home antennae), and has an incredible seventy five percent
(75%) savings in throughput (“bandwidth”) on any digital delivery system such as
cable, satellite, multipoint-multichannel delivery system, or the Internet, and a
similar seventy five percent (75%) savings in storage and processing on mediums
such as digital video discs (“DVD’s”), opening the door for low bandwidth video cell
phones and other revolutionary video markets.
LIST OF PATENTS
That at the time of the engagement of Proskauer and thereafter, Petitioners’
companies and inventors, and shareholders at such time, were advised and
otherwise led to believe thatby Rubenstein and Wheeler that Rubenstein was the
Proskauer partner in charge of the account for patents and Wheeler for corporate
matters, further this information was used to raise all of the capital and included in
a Wachovia Securities Private Placement Memorandum (“PPM”), pursuant to
Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, that Proskauer co-authored, billed for
and disseminated, whereby Wheeler and Rubenstein also served as active members
of an Advisory Board for Petitioners’ companies in which Wheeler and Rubenstein
were essential to raising capital and directing the patent applications, copyrights
and corporate matters. Of interest in this case, and recently uncovered, is that upon
learning of the fraud’s alleged that Crossbow Ventures acknowledged and informed
the Petitioner Companies that 2/3rd of the investment capital of $4lamont, was
money invested by the Federal Small Business Administration making the SBA the
largest investor in the Technology. In filing compliance papers for securing such
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funds with the SBA, a copy of the PPM management section lists Kenneth
Rubenstein as “Iviewit patent counsel” and Proskauer Rose, LLP is named as
“retained” patent counsel. Both Kenneth Rubenstein and Christopher Wheeler are
listed as Advisory Board members responsible for the intellectual properties and
management of the Company. This is quite inapposite of the current statements
made by Proskauer partner’s Rubenstein and the law firm of Proskauer Rose, LLP
to the NY and FL Bars, The Florida Civil Circuit Court and under deposition and
inapposite of direct evidence given to such agencies investigating the matters. The
matter is currently being submitted after recent conversations with the Chief
Inspector whom requested all information and accounting. Where Rubenstein and
Proskauer Rose LLP now try to claim virtually no knowledge of the Technology
and at the same time have suddenly come into possession and control of the patent
pools, all which have proliferated Petitioners technology globally and generated
profit for Proskauer Rose LLP and not Petitioners or Inventors.
That upon information and belief, Proskauer, MLGS, Wheeler, Rubenstein, and
Joao upon viewing the Technology developed by Inventors, realized the significance
of the Technology, its various applications to communication networks for
distributing video and images and for existing digital processes, including but not
limited to, all forms of video delivery, digital cameras, digital imaging technologies
for medical purposes and digital video, and that Proskauer, MLGS, Wheeler,
Rubenstein and Joao then conspired to undertake and in fact undertook a
deliberate course of conduct to deprive Inventors and Petitioners of the beneficial
use of such Technology for their own and others gains, all to the detriment of
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Petitioner. Proskauer, MLGS, Rubenstein, Wheeler and Joao, further allowed the
unauthorized use of the Technology by third-parties, such as Rubenstein’s patent
pools and, pursuant to Non-Disclosure Agreements (“NDA’s”) secured by
Proskauer on multitudes of their client introductions, for multitudes of their clients
that are now not enforced, whereby Proskauer is fully cognizant of their client’s
uses of Petitioners’ Technology under such NDA’s. Additionally, it is factually
alleged that members of Proskauer, members of MLGS, Wheeler, Rubenstein and
Joao all have had personal financial gains through the misappropriation of
Petitioners’ Technology and Proskauer has earned profit and other gains to its
entire partnership and all members, through the acquisition and formation of
multiple the patent pools all benefiting from Petitioner Technology as a client (after
learning of Petitioners’ Technology), and the further exclusion of Petitioners from
such patent pools which generate enormous fees to Proskauer and perhaps other
untold revenues, all to the detriment and damage of the Petitioners. This behavior
may very well represent antitrust claims against Proskauer, Rubenstein and the
patent pools they oversight and whereby Rubenstein directly solely and in this case
soullessly chooses patents for inclusion or exclusion therein into the global video
standard. Patent pools have had a historical anti-trust problem for these very
reasons.
That Wheeler, who was a close friend of Utley, recommended to Petitioners that
Petitioners engage the services of Utley to act as President of Petitioners’ companies
based on his knowledge and ability as to technology issues.
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That at the time that Wheeler made the recommendation of Utley to the Board of
Directors, Wheeler knew that Utley had been engaged in a dispute with his former
employer, Diamond Turf Equipment, Inc. (“DTE”) and the fact that Utley had
misappropriated certain patents on hydro-mechanical systems to the detriment of
DTE, as Utley was terminated for cause according to Monte Friedkin (“Friedkin”),
owner of DTE and that DTE was closed due to Utley, forcing the owner to take a
several million dollar loss.
That on information and belief, Proskauer and Wheeler may have had a part in the
misappropriation of the patents from DTE with Utley, in that Wheeler had formed
a company for Utley where the misappropriated patents are believed to have been
transferred. Despite Wheeler’s involvement, Wheeler was fully cognizant of this
patent dispute with Utley and DTE, as confirmed by the former owner of DTE,
Friedkin, and further confirmed in depositions with Utley and Wheeler. That
Proskauer and Wheeler’s recommendation of Utley to the Board of Directors
knowingly failed to disclose these past patent problems to Petitioners and in fact
Proskauer and Wheeler circulated a resume on behalf of Utley claiming that as a
result of Utley’s inventions that DTE went on to become a leader in the industry,
when Proskauer and Wheeler knew that the company had been closed by the patent
problems of Utley and perhaps actions of Proskauer and Wheeler. That Proskauer
and Wheeler further conspired with Utley to circulate a knowingly false and
misleading resume to Petitioners’ shareholders, including the SBA for compliance
purposes in loans generated and induced investment without ever disclosing this
information.
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That despite such knowledge, Proskauer and Wheeler never mentioned such facts
concerning Utley to any representative of Petitioners and in fact undertook to "sell"
Utley as a highly qualified candidate who would be the ideal person to undertake
day to day operations of Petitioners acting as a qualified engineer which he was not.
That additionally, Proskauer and Wheeler continued to assist Utley in perpetrating
such fraud on both the Board of Directors of Petitioners and to third parties,
including for the Wachovia Securities PPM, by approving a false resume for Utley
which was included in the raising funds, pursuant to and in violation of Regulation
D of the Securities Act of 1933 and was used for compliance purposes for loans
generated by the SBA.
That based on the recommendations of Proskauer and Wheeler, and Wheeler
relationship as a ten year friend of Utley, the Board of Directors agreed to engage
the services of Utley as President and Chief Operating Officer based on false and
misleading information knowingly proffered by Proskauer and Wheeler.
That almost immediately after Utley's employment, Proskauer and Wheeler
provided a purported retainer agreement (“Retainer”) for the providing of services
by Proskauer to Petitioners, addressed to Utley. That the Retainer agreement
comes after one year of Proskauer providing services whereby patent disclosures
were given directly from Inventors to Proskauer partners in that time, including but
not limited to, Wheeler, Rubenstein and Joao. Finally, on information and belief,
Petitioners states that Proskauer through Wheeler and Utley conspired to replace
the original retainer agreement with the Petitioners companies, with the Retainer
void of patent services that were originally agreed upon and performed on. That
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the services provided were in fact to be partially paid out of the royalties recovered
from the use of the Technology, which was to be included in patent pools overseen
by Proskauer and Rubenstein and later acquired by Proskauer as clients,
Rubenstein and Proskauer who had already deemed them “novel” and “essential”
to the patent pools.
That the Retainer by its terms contemplated the providing of corporate and general
legal services to Petitioners by Proskauer and was endorsed by Utley on behalf of
Petitioners, the Board of Directors of Petitioners would not have Utley authorized to
endorse same as it did not include the intellectual property work which Proskauer
and Rubenstein had already undertaken.
That prior to the Retainer, Proskauer, Rubenstein, and Wheeler had provided legal
services to Petitioners, including services regarding patents, copyrights, trade-
secrets, Trademarks with Rubenstein being given full disclosure of the patent
processes through each of these departments he controlled when Proskauer Rose
LLP hired Rubenstein after learning of the importance of the Technology and as the
key to heisting the Technology.
That Proskauer billed Petitioners for legal services related to corporate, patent,
trademark, copyright and other work in a sum of approximately Eight Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($800,000) and now claims to have not done patent work, a
materially false statement with insurmountable evidence to the contrary, as
evidenced by the management section, including Advisory Board, for the Wachovia
Securities PPM used to induce investment and loans including from the Small
Business Administration, a federal agency, and whereby it states that Proskauer was
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“retained patent counsel” for Petitioners companies and contrary to the current
claims by Proskauer and Rubenstein that they preformed no patent work told to
state and federal investigatory bodies.
That Proskauer billed Petitioners for copyright, trade-secret, patent services
including legal services never performed causing loss of intellectual property rights,
double-billed by the use of multiple counsel on the same issue, and when caught
began to falsifiedy and altered billing information and other documentation in an
attempt to hide the patent work and distance themselves from the Technology so as
to cover up and systematically overcharged for services provided.for the crimes
committed.
That based on the over-billing by Proskauer, Petitioners paid a sum in of
approximately Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) together with a two
and one-half percent (2.5%) equity interest in Petitioners’ companies, which sums
and interest in Petitioners’ companies was received and accepted by Proskauer.
That Wheeler, Utley, Rubenstein, Joao, Proskauer, and MLGS conspired to deprive
Petitioners of its rights to the Technology developed by Inventors by:
FIRST COUNT: VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHTS ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CH 13 SEC 241 CONSPIRACY AGAINST RIGHTS Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CH 13 SEC 245 FEDERALLY PROTECTED ACTIVITIES ................................................... Error: Reference source not found
SECOND COUNT: ANTITRUST CIVIL PROCESS . . ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 15 CH 34 SEC 1312 CIVIL INVESTIGATIVE DEMANDS ........ Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 15 CH 34 SEC 1313 CUSTODIAN OF DOCUMENTS, ANSWERS AND TRANSCRIPTS .................................... Error: Reference source not found
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PRODUCT VIOLATES SECTIONS 1 AND 2 OF THE SHERMAN ACT, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1 AND 2; RECORDS AND REPORTS .. Error: Reference source not found
THIRD COUNT: VIOLATIONS OF RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS (RICO) ............................ ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CH 96 SEC 1965 RICO VENUE AND PROCESS ..... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CH 96 SEC 1961 RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS (“RICO”) .... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CH 96 SEC 1962 (A) – RICO PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES ......................................................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CH 96 S EC 1962 (a) RICO ....... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CH 19 SEC 1962 (D) RICO ...... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CH 96 SEC 1964 RICO CIVIL REMEDIES ............... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CH 96 SEC 1968 RICO CIVIL INVESTIGATIVE DEMAND ....................................................... Error: Reference source not found
FOURTH COUNT: CONSPIRACY .................. ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND TITLE 18 PART I CH 19 CONSPIRACY SEC 371 CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT OFFENSE OR TO DEFRAUD UNITED STATES Error: Reference source not found
FIFTH COUNT: SUPREME COURT AGENCY PUBLIC OFFICE ABUSE, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION: FIRST DEPT AND THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 21 SEC 401 - POWER OF COURT .......... Error: Reference source not found
SIXTH COUNT: VIOLATIONS OF RACKETEERING ... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CH 95 RACKETEERING SEC 1951 - INTERFERENCE WITH COMMERCE BY THREATS OR VIOLENCE . Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CH 95 RACKETEERING SEC 1952 INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN TRAVEL OR TRANSPORTATION IN AID OF RACKETEERING ENTERPRISES ............... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CH 95 RACKETEERING SEC 1956 LAUNDERING OF MONETARY INSTRUMENTS ..................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CH 95 RACKETEERING SEC 1957 ENGAGING IN MONETARY TRANSACTIONS IN PROPERTY DERIVED FROM SPECIFIED UNLAWFUL ACTIVITY .......... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 103 SEC. 2112 - PERSONAL PROPERTY OF UNITED STATES .......................................... Error: Reference source not found
SEVENTH COUNT: VIOLATIONS OF COMMERCE AND TRADE ................ ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
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EIGHTH COUNT: VIOLATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 501 INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT ............... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 502 REMEDIES FOR INFRINGEMENT: INJUNCTIONS ............................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 503 REMEDIES FOR INFRINGEMENT: IMPOUNDING AND DISPOSITION OF INFRINGING ARTICLES ..... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 504 REMEDIES FOR INFRINGEMENT: DAMAGES AND PROFITS ............................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 505 REMEDIES FOR INFRINGEMENT: COSTS AND ATTORNEY'S FEES ...................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 506 CRIMINAL OFFENSES Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 507 LIMITATIONS ON ACTIONS ....... Error: Reference source not found
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TITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 508 NOTIFICATION OF FILING AND DETERMINATION OF ACTIONS ............... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 509 SEIZURE AND FORFEITURE ...... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 510 REMEDIES FOR ALTERATION OF PROGRAMMING BY CABLE SYSTEMS ... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 511 LIABILITY OF STATES, INSTRUMENTALITIES OF STATES, AND STATE OFFICIALS FOR INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT .................................................. Error: Reference source not found TITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 512 LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY RELATING TO MATERIAL ONLINE .................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 17 CH 5 SEC 513 DETERMINATION OF REASONABLE LICENSE FEES FOR INDIVIDUAL PROPRIETORS . . Error: Reference source not found TITLE 17 CHAPTER 13 SEC 1312 - OATHS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......................................................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 17 CH 13 SEC 1326 PENALTY FOR FALSE MARKING .......... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 17 CHAPTER 13 SEC 1327 - PENALTY FOR FALSE REPRESENTATION ...................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 17 CH 13 SEC 1329 RELATION TO DESIGN PATENT LAW . . Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 17 CH 13 SEC 1330 COMMON LAW AND OTHER RIGHTS UNAFFECTED ............................................... Error: Reference source not found
NINTH COUNT: FRAUD UPON THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE .................................. ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 35 PART I CH 2 SEC 25 DECLARATION IN LIEU OF OATH . Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 35 PART II CH 11 SEC 115 OATH OF APPLICANT Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 35 PART II CH 11 SEC 116 INVENTORS Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 35 PART III CH 261 OWNERSHIP; ASSIGNMENT . Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 35 PART IV PATENT COOPERATION TREATY CH 35 SEC 351 ......................................................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 35 PART IV CH 37 SEC 373 IMPROPER APPLICANT ............. Error: Reference source not found§ 1.56 DUTY TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION MATERIAL TO PATENTABILITY ......................................... Error: Reference source not found § 1.63 REGARDING OATHS AND DECLARATIONS ......... Error: Reference source not foundCONSOLIDATED PATENT RULES § 1.63 . Error: Reference source not found § 1.64 REGARDING PERSON MAKING FALSE OATHS AND DECLARATIONS .......................................... Error: Reference source not found § 1.71 REGARDING DETAILED DESCRIPTION AND SPECIFICATION OF THE INVENTION .................................... Error: Reference source not found
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TENTH COUNT: FALSE CLAIMS ...................... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND TITLE 31 SUBTITLE III CHAPTER 37 SUBCHAPTER III SEC 3729 - FALSE CLAIMS ............................................ Error: Reference source not found
ELEVENTH COUNT: VIOLATIONS OF PROTECTION OF TRADE SECRETS ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CH 90 SEC 1831 ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE ............. Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CH 90 SEC 1832 THEFT OF TRADE SECRETS ...... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CH 90 SEC 1834 CRIMINAL FORFEITURE ............ Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CH 90 SEC 1835 ORDERS TO PRESERVE CONFIDENTIALITY ..................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CH 90 SEC 1837 APPLICABILITY TO CONDUCT OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES ............... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 15 CH 22 TRADEMARKS SEC 1116 INJUNCTIVE RELIEF .... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 15 CH 22 SUBCH III SEC 1117 - RECOVERY FOR VIOLATION OF RIGHTS .......................................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 15 CH 22 SUBCH III SEC 1120 CIVIL LIABILITY FOR FALSE OR FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION ................ Error: Reference source not found TITLE 15 CH 22 SUBCH III SEC 1125 FALSE DESIGNATIONS OF ORIGIN, FALSE DESCRIPTIONS, AND DILUTION FORBIDDEN ..... Error: Reference source not found
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TWELFTH COUNT: FRAUD UPON THE UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT OFFICES ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 17 - COPYRIGHTS ............................ Error: Reference source not found THIRTEENTH COUNT: VIOLATION OF FEDERAL BANKRUPTCY LAW . . . ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 9 BANKRUPTCY SEC. 152 CONCEALMENT OF ASSETS; FALSE OATHS AND CLAIMS; BRIBERY ..... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 9 SEC 156 - KNOWING DISREGARD OF BANKRUPTCY LAW OR RULE AND TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 9 SEC 157 - BANKRUPTCY FRAUD ...................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 11 CHAPTER 1 SEC 110 - PENALTY FOR PERSONS WHO NEGLIGENTLY OR FRAUDULENTLY PREPARE BANKRUPTCY PETITIONS .................................................... Error: Reference source not found
FOURTEENTH COUNT: COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY .... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CH 25 SEC 470 COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY COUNTERFEIT ACTS COMMITTED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES ......................................................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CH 25 SEC 494 - CONTRACTORS' BONDS, BIDS, AND PUBLIC RECORDS ....................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CH 25 SEC 495 - CONTRACTS, DEEDS, AND POWERS OF ATTORNEY ............................................. Error: Reference source not found
FIFTEENTH COUNT: FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS ........ ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CH 47 FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS SEC 1001 ......................................................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 47 SEC 1031 - MAJOR FRAUD AGAINST THE UNITED STATES ................................. Error: Reference source not found
SIXTEENTH COUNT: MALICIOUS MISCHIEF VIOLATION ...... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CH 65 SEC 1361 – GOVERNMENT PROPERTY OR CONTRACTS ................................................. Error: Reference source not found
SEVENTEENTH COUNT: ROBBERY AND BURGLARY . ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 103 SEC. 2112 - PERSONAL PROPERTY OF UNITED STATES .......................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CH 103 SEC 2114 - MAIL, MONEY, OR OTHER PROPERTY OF UNITED STATES ............... Error: Reference source not found
EIGHTEENTH COUNT: STOLEN PROPERTY ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND TITLE 18 PART I CH 113 STOLEN PROPERTY SEC 2311 . Error: Reference source not found
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NINETEENTH COUNT: SECURITIES VIOLATIONS ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND TWENTIETH COUNT: BRIBERY, GRAFT, AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CH 11 ............................... Error: Reference source not found BRIBERY, GRAFT, AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ........ Error: Reference source not found
TWENTY-FIRST COUNT: PERJURY ............... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 79 SEC 1621 - PERJURY GENERALLY Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 79 SEC 1622 . Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 79 SEC 1623 - FALSE DECLARATIONS BEFORE GRAND JURY OR COURT .......... Error: Reference source not found
TWENTY-SECOND COUNT: MAIL AND WIRE FRAUD .. ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 63 SEC 1341 - FRAUDS AND SWINDLES ......................................................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CH 63 SEC 1342 FICTITIOUS NAME OR ADDRESS ......................................................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 63 SEC 1343 - FRAUD BY WIRE, RADIO, OR TELEVISION ........................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 63 SEC. 1344 - BANK FRAUD ............... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 63 SEC 1346 - DEFINITION OF ''SCHEME OR ARTIFICE TO DEFRAUD'' .................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 63 SEC 1345 - INJUNCTIONS AGAINST FRAUD ........................................................... Error: Reference source not found
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TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 83 SEC. 1701 - OBSTRUCTION OF MAILS GENERALLY ................................................. Error: Reference source not found TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 83 SEC 1702 - OBSTRUCTION OF CORRESPONDENCE .................................... Error: Reference source not found
TWENTY-FOURTH COUNT: INTERNAL REVENUE CODE VIOLATIONS .... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 26 INTERNAL REVENUE CODE .... Error: Reference source not found TWENTY-FIFTH COUNT: EMBEZZLEMENT AND THEFT .......... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 31 SEC 641 - PUBLIC MONEY, PROPERTY OR RECORDS ................................................ Error: Reference source not found SEC 654 - OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OF UNITED STATES CONVERTING PROPERTY OF ANOTHER .......................... Error: Reference source not found
TWENTY-SIXTH COUNT: TITLE 15 CH 22 SUBCH IV SUBCHAPTER IV - THE MADRID PROTOCOL ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND TWENTY-SEVENTH COUNT: CONTEMPTS . . . ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND TWENTY-EIGHTH COUNT: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE ........... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND PRAYER FOR RELIEF ................................... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
STATE COUNTS .................................... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND TWENTY-NINTH COUNT: NEW YORK CONSPIRACY .. ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
NEW YORK STATE CONSOLIDATED LAWS PENAL ARTICLE 105 CONSPIRACY ................................................... Error: Reference source not found
THIRTIETH COUNT: DELAWARE § 521 CONSPIRACY . ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
CH 5 SPECIFIC OFFENSES SUBCH I INCHOATE CRIMES § 521 CONSPIRACY ................................................... Error: Reference source not found
§ 531. Attempt to commit a crime. ................. Error: Reference source not found § 871. Falsifying business records; class A misdemeanor. ........ Error: Reference source not found§ 891. Defrauding secured creditors; class A misdemeanor. ..... Error: Reference source not found§ 909. Securing execution of documents by deception; class A misdemeanor ......................................................................... Error: Reference source not found
THIRTY-FIRST COUNT: FLORIDA CONSPIRACY ....... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE XLIV - CIVIL RIGHTS CH. 760-765 -760.01 THE FLORIDA CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1992 .................................. Error: Reference source not found 760.51 VIOLATIONS OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, CIVIL ACTION BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL; CIVIL PENALTY Error: Reference source not found
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TITLE XLV – TORTS - CH 772 CIVIL REMEDIES FOR CRIMINAL PRACTICES 772.103 PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES Error: Reference source not foundTITLE XLV TORTS - CH 772 CIVIL REMEDIES FOR CRIMINAL PRACTICES 772.104 CIVIL CAUSE OF ACTION Error: Reference source not foundTITLE XLV TORTS - CH 772 CIVIL REMEDIES FOR CRIMINAL PRACTICES ................................................... Error: Reference source not found 772.11 CIVIL REMEDY FOR THEFT OR EXPLOITATION Error: Reference source not foundTITLE XLV TORTS – CH 772 CIVIL REMEDIES FOR CRIMINAL PRACTICES ................................................... Error: Reference source not found 772.185 ATTORNEY'S FEES TAXED AS COSTS Error: Reference source not found
THIRTY-SECOND COUNT: 895.01 FLORIDA RICO (RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATION) ACT .... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
FLORIDA STATE LAW .................................... Error: Reference source not found CH 895 - OFFENSES CONCERNING RACKETEERING AND ILLEGAL DEBTS 895.01 "FLORIDA RICO (RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATION) ACT ............ Error: Reference source not found 895.03 PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND DEFENSE . Error: Reference source not found895.04 CRIMINAL PENALTIES AND ALTERNATIVE FINE .............. Error: Reference source not found895.05 CIVIL REMEDIES ............................. Error: Reference source not found 895.06 CIVIL INVESTIGATIVE SUBPOENAS .... Error: Reference source not found895.07 RICO LIEN NOTICE ......................... Error: Reference source not found 895.08 TERM OF RICO LIEN NOTICE ....... Error: Reference source not found CH 896 - OFFENSES RELATED TO FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS 896.101 FLORIDA MONEY LAUNDERING ACT Error: Reference source not found896.102 CURRENCY MORE THAN $10,000 RECEIVED IN TRADE OR BUSINESS; REPORT REQUIRED; NONCOMPLIANCE PENALTIES Error: Reference source not found896.103 TRANSACTION WHICH CONSTITUTES SEPARATE OFFENSE ......................................................................... Error: Reference source not found 896.104 STRUCTURING TRANSACTIONS TO EVADE REPORTING OR REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS PROHIBITED . . Error: Reference source not found896.105 PENALTY PROVISIONS NOT APPLICABLE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT ........................................... Error: Reference source not found 896.106 FUGITIVE DISENTITLEMENT ..... Error: Reference source not found
THIRTY-THIRD COUNT: VIOLATIONS OF PUBLIC OFFICES NEW YORK SUPREME COURT APPELLATE DIVISION: FIRST DEPARTMENT .......... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
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ARTICLE 175 OFFENSES INVOLVING FALSE WRITTEN STATEMENTS ......................................................................... Error: Reference source not found NY CONSTITUTION ARTICLE XIII PUBLIC OFFICERS ... Error: Reference source not foundPUBLIC OFFICERS - PUBLIC OFFICERS ARTICLE 1 ....... Error: Reference source not foundARTICLE 2 APPOINTMENT AND QUALIFICATION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS ...................................................... Error: Reference source not found ARTICLE 15 ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS Error: Reference source not foundS 468-B. CLIENTS` SECURITY FUND OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ......................................................................... Error: Reference source not found S 476-A. ACTION FOR UNLAWFUL PRACTICE OF THE LAW. ........ Error: Reference source not foundS 476-C. INVESTIGATION BY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. ............ Error: Reference source not foundS 487. MISCONDUCT BY ATTORNEYS. ... Error: Reference source not found S 499. LAWYER ASSISTANCE COMMITTEES. Error: Reference source not foundPUBLIC OFFICERS LAW § 73 RESTRICTIONS ON THE ACTIVITIES OF CURRENT AND FORMER STATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES .... Error: Reference source not found
THIRTY-FOURTH COUNT: VIOLATION OF PUBLIC OFFICES FLORIDA SUPREME COURT – CASE SC04-1078 ........... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
FLORIDA LAW ................................................. Error: Reference source not found PART III – CODE OF ETHICS FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES ................................................. Error: Reference source not found 112.311 LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND DECLARATION OF POLICY . Error: Reference source not found112.312 DEFINITIONS .................................. Error: Reference source not found 112.313 STANDARDS OF CONDUCT FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES OF AGENCIES, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ATTORNEYS ................................................. Error: Reference source not found 112.320 COMMISSION ON ETHICS; PURPOSE . Error: Reference source not found112.324 PROCEDURES ON COMPLAINTS OF VIOLATIONS; PUBLIC RECORDS AND MEETING EXEMPTIONS ......... Error: Reference source not found112.3241 JUDICIAL REVIEW. ..................... Error: Reference source not found 112.3173 FELONIES INVOLVING BREACH OF PUBLIC TRUST AND OTHER SPECIFIED OFFENSES BY PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES; FORFEITURE OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS ............... Error: Reference source not found
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112.3187 ADVERSE ACTION AGAINST EMPLOYEE FOR DISCLOSING INFORMATION OF SPECIFIED NATURE PROHIBITED; EMPLOYEE REMEDY AND RELIEF. ............................... Error: Reference source not found 112.52 REMOVAL OF A PUBLIC OFFICIAL WHEN A METHOD IS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED ............................ Error: Reference source not found TITLE X PUBLIC OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND RECORDS CH 112 PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES: GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC 112.317 PENALTIES ..................................... Error: Reference source not found CH 838 - BRIBERY; MISUSE OF PUBLIC OFFICE SEC 838.022 OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT .............................................. Error: Reference source not found CH 839 - OFFENSES BY PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES SEC 839.13 FALSIFYING RECORDS .................. Error: Reference source not found 839.26 MISUSE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION ....... Error: Reference source not foundTITLE XLVI CH 777 PRINCIPAL; ACCESSORY; ATTEMPT; SOLICITATION; CONSPIRACY SEC 777.011 PRINCIPAL IN FIRST DEGREE ......................................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE XLVI CH 777 SEC 777.03 ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT ... Error: Reference source not found
THIRTY-FIFTH COUNT: FLORIDA TRADE SECRETS ACT ..... ERROR: REFERENCE SOURCE NOT FOUND
TITLE XXXIX COMMERCIAL RELATIONS CH 688 UNIFORM TRADE SECRETS ACT ............................................... Error: Reference source not found TITLE XXXIX COMMERCIAL RELATIONS CH 688 UNIFORM TRADE SECRETS ACT 688.004 DAMAGES ........... Error: Reference source not found
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TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 90 > § 1831
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i. Aiding and abetting Joao in improperly filing patents for Petitioners
Technology by intentionally withholding pertinent information from such
patent applications and not filing same timely, to amongst other things allow
Joao to apply for similar patents in his own name and other malfeasances,
both while acting as counsel for Petitioners and subsequently, from concepts
stolen from the Company. That Joao now claims that since working with
Petitioners companies he has filed approximately ninety patents in his own
name rivaling Edison, and;
ii. Upon discovery of the problems in Joao’s work and that Joao was writing
patents benefiting from Petitioners’ Technology in his name, that Proskauer,
Wheeler, Rubenstein and Utley referred the patent matters for correction to
Dick of Foley, who was also a close personal friend of Utley and who had
been involved, unbeknownst and undisclosed to Petitioners at the time, in the
diversion of patents to Utley at his former employer DTE, perhaps with
Wheeler, to the detriment of DTE, thereby establishing a pattern of
conspiratorial criminal intent in the stealing of patent
malfeasancesinventions from their lawful owners; and,
iii. Proskauer, Rubenstein, Wheeler, Dick and Utley further conspiring to
transfer patent assignments to the wrong companies, the formations of which
were unauthorized by Petitioners, whereby Proskauer may now have full
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ownership of such patents and companies, quite to the detriment of
Petitioners and Petitioners’ companies shareholders; and,
iv. Proskauer, Rubenstein, Wheeler, Dick and Utley further conspiring in
the transferring of prior patent applications or the filing of new patent
applications, unbeknownst to Petitioners, conspiring with Foley so as to
name Utley as the sole holder or joint inventor of multiple patents
fraudulently and with improper assignment to improper entities, when in
fact such inventions were and arose from the Technology developed by
Inventors and held by Petitioners companies, prior to Utley's employment
with Petitioners; and,
v. Further failing to list proper inventors and fraudulently adding inventors
to the patents, constituting charges now pending before the Commissioner of
Patents (“Commissioner”) of fraud upon the United States Patent and
Trademark Office (“USPTO”) against these attorneys as filed by Petitioners
and its largest investor Crossbow Ventures, resulting in the failure of the
patents to include their rightful and lawful inventors as confirmed in
conversations and correspondence with the USPTO. The wrong inventors
has lead to investors not having proper and full ownership in the patents and
in some cases NO ownership; and,
vi. Failing to properly assign the inventions and fraudulently conveying to
investors and potential investors knowingly false and misleading intellectual
property dockets and other false and misleading information, prepared and
disseminated by these attorneys. The intellectual property dockets illustrate
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false and misleading information on the inventors, assignees and owners of
the Technology. The wrong assignments may lead to investors not having
proper and full ownership in the patents; and,
vii. Knowingly and wilfully, failing to ensure that the patent applications for
the Technology contained all necessary and pertinent information relevant to
the Technology and as required by patent law; and,
viii. Billing for, and then failing to secure copyrights. Failing to complete
copyright work for the source code for the Technology of Petitioners as
intellectual property. Further, falsifying billing statements to replace
copyright work with trademark work, although the billings are full of
copyright work that has never been performed; and,
ix. Allowing the infringement of patent rights of Petitioners and the
intellectual property of Petitioners by patent pools overseen by Proskauer
and Rubenstein, and, other clients of Proskauer, MLGS, Rubenstein, Joao
and Wheeler, whereby Proskauer, MLGS, Rubenstein, Joao and Wheeler
profit from such infringement to the detriment of Petitioners. Finally, that
Proskauer, MLGS, Rubenstein, Joao and Wheeler clients all profit from
violations of NDA’s secured by Proskauer and their partners, infringements
all to the detriment of Petitioners; and,
x. Allowing Rubenstein, whomwho acted as patent counsel and an Advisory
Board member to Petitioners, full access to the patent processes to proliferate
throughout the patent pools he controls with Proskauer, causing exposure to
Petitioners. Thereafter, Rubenstein now attempts to state that he does not
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know the Company, the Inventors, or the Technology and never was involved
in any way, thereby constituting perjured deposition testimony and further
false statements to a tribunal by Proskauer and Rubenstein. Witnesses and
direct evidence refute Rubenstein’s denials, and, further, Proskauer failed to
secure conflict of interest waivers from Petitioners, has no “Chinese Wall”
between Rubenstein and Petitioners, that under ordinary circumstances such
conflict waivers and separations would have been common place for
Proskauer, as a result of the patent pools and Proskauer and Rubenstein’s
involvement with such pools, which directly compete with Petitioners’
Technology. Furthermore, Rubenstein heads the following departments for
Proskauer all of which did work and billed for such work for Petitioners and
likewise would have caused conflict waivers to be secured: patents,
trademarks and copyrights, and whereby Proskauer and Rubenstein are now
the single largest benefactor of Petitioners’ Technology because of such
conflicts and failure to obtain such waivers.
That Petitioners, in discussions with the USPTO on or about February 1, 2004, finds
patent information different from every intellectual property docket delivered to
Petitioners by every retained patent counsel, as to inventors, assignments, and, in
particular, one or more patent applications in the name of Utley with no assignment
to Petitioners, and to which, according to the USPTO, Petitioners presently holds no
rights, titles, or interest in that particular patent application. That such patent
issues have caused Petitioners, in conjunction with its largest investor, Crossbow
Ventures (the largest South Florida venture fund) and Stephen J. Warner, the Co-
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Founder and former Chairman of the Board, to file a complaint with the USTPO
alleging charges of Fraud Upon the United States Patent and Trademark Office,
now causing the Commissioner, after review, to put multiple six-month suspension
on all Petitioners’ US patent applications while investigations should proceed into
the attorney malfeasances and mitigate further damages.
That Wheeler, Rubenstein and Proskauer, rather than pursuing the corporate
formation and governance for entities directed by the Board of Directors, proceeded
to engage in fraud and deceit by the corporate formation of multiple entities in a
multi-tiered structure thus engaging, effectively, in a “shell game” as to which entity
and under what structure would hold assignment of the Technology.
That upon information and belief, Wheeler, Rubenstein, Joao, MLGS and
Proskauer through a disingenuous scheme comprised of the unauthorized formation
of similarly named entities, unauthorized asset acquisitions and transfers,
unauthorized name changes, falsification of inventors and falsification of
assignments, all that effectively result in the assignment of Petitioners’sPetitioner’s
core inventions to: wrong inventors, wrong assignees, and, finally, on information
and belief, an entity, Iviewit Technologies, Inc., of which Proskauer is one of four, or
less, presumed shareholders and whereby the company was set up solely by
Proskauer to hold Proskauer stock in Petitioners’ companies, and whereby the
Petitioners’ companies shareholders now have no verifiable ownership interest in
Iviewit Technologies, Inc. which now holds several core patents, not authorized by
the Board of Directors. With no evidence of an ownership position of Petitioners in
Iviewit Technologies, Inc., and whereby a terminated Arthur Andersen audit,
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terminated by Arthur Andersen, failed to prove any incident of ownership, it
remains unclear if the Petitioners’ shareholders have any interest in these patents in
such unauthorized entity. This potential “shell game” resulted from a name change
from the unauthorized Proskauer entity named originally Iviewit Holdings, Inc. to
Iviewit Technologies, Inc., which was formed by Proskauer, unbeknownst to the
Board of Directors, with an identical name to a Petitioners’ company Iviewit
Holdings, Inc. that was changing its name from Uview.com, Inc. and in the two
weeks the unauthorized entity maintained an exactly identical name to Petitioners’
to-be-renamed company, patents were assigned into the now named Iviewit
Technologies, Inc., which on the day Petitioners company changed it’s name to
Iviewit Holdings, Inc. Proskauer changed the name of their entity from Iviewit
Holdings, Inc. to Iviewit Technologies, Inc., with the assigned patents ending up in
the unauthorized company, whereby Proskauer may be a majority shareholder with
Petitioners’ investors not having any ownership in the patents in the unauthorized
entity. It is alleged that Proskauer maintained two sets of corporate books, two sets
of patent books and was attempting to direct the core patents out of the Petitioners’
companies naming Utley as the inventor and leaving Petitioners’ companies
bankrupt and with inferior patents while the core technologies were absconded
with.
That Utley, Wheeler, Rubenstein and Proskauer engaged in the transfer of a loan
from a group of Proskauer referred investors and that such loan transacted without
approval from the Board of Directors or the Petitioners’ lead investor and without
full and complete documentation of the transaction ever being properly completed
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and no bank records produced to correspond to such transaction. That upon
learning of such loan transaction and requesting auditing of such transaction,
Petitioners found missing records and that, further, employees’ eyewitness
testimonies in written statements, show a large briefcase of cash, claimed to be from
the Proskauer investors, was used to attempt to bribe employees to steal trade
secrets and proprietary equipment, and further such equipment was stolen off with
by Proskauer’s management team led by Utley, as he was being fired with cause
when he was found to be misappropriating patents into his name. This alleged theft
of between Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($600,000.00) and One Million Dollars
($1,000,000.00) by Proskauer and their management referrals, of money loaned to
the Company, was referred to the Boca Raton Police Department who have
purportedly referred the matter to the Securities and Exchange Commission; the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (West Palm Beach) was also notified.
That as a direct and proximate result of the actions of the Wheeler, Rubenstein,
Joao, MLGS and Proskauer, Petitioners have been damaged in a sum estimated to
be approximately Seventeen Billion Dollars ($17,000,000,000.00), based on company
projections and corroborated by industry experts as to the value of the Technology
and the applications to current and future uses over the twenty year life of such
patents.
That after discovering initial evidences of core patent applications being stolen off
with, that Brian G. Utley levied threats against the Companies and the life of
inventor Eliot I. Bernstein, threatening to bring down the companies “brick by
brick” and that Bernstein should watch his back when returning from California to
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his home in Boca Raton, Florida as Utley, Dick and Wheeler would be watching if
he were to continue notifying parties of the patent malfeasances that were being
uncovered.
Bernstein moved his family from Boca Raton the next week in fear of their safety to
a California hotel and then sought temporary residency throughout a two year
period, where Bernstein immediately notified all Board members, investors and the
authorities of the atrocities being uncovered. As with any complex conspiracy, this
onion had many layers and with every new day over that period, mounds of
evidence began to be uncovered revealing a criminal network of individuals
involved in hosts of illegal ploys to heist the Technology by once trusted attorneys.
Bernstein returns to Florida to deliver Counter Complaint and present first
evidences of crimes uncovered in two-year period.
New level of cover-up starts for Proskauer as Companies file state bar complaints,
complaints against SB, complaints against Labarga. The Company is virtually
bankrupted, with no way to get funding, with no legal counsel to trust at this point
and with SB having failed on their contract and cost the Company it’s due process
at trial and in other related matters, it looked hopeless for the inventors to save any
rights to their inventions. Further troubled loomed as patent counsel for the
Company began a series of steps that further looked as if they had become involved
in aiding and abetting these crimes, as the Company went to patent office and found
some startling revelations, that have exposed an entire level of cover-up extending
now to the Supreme Courts of New York and Florida and their bar associations and
disciplinary committees.
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The patent office confirmed that the patent dockets prepared by company counsel
were materially false and misleading, in inventors, assignements, owners and other
information currently pending review, which led to the Director of the Office of
Enrollment and Discipline, Harry I. Moatz, to advise the Company that the first
step would be to file charges of fraud upon the United States Patent & Trademark
Office with the Commissioner of Patents, in an attempt to have the patents put into
a six month suspension pending outcome of the investigation into the charges and
official attorney complaints lodged against attorney members of the Patent Office
Bar which Mr. Moatz is personally handling. The commissioner has now granted a
series of suspensions, and in certain instances, revival of core patents which were
abandoned in more fraud by the attorneys are now pending consideration with the
Director of Petitions for the United States Patent & Trademark Office of how to
revive in a most complicated matter, these patents rights to a core invention are
currently lost, and perhaps it will take an act of congress or This Court to rectify
such problem, when the very system to prevent such a travesty from occurring is
being manipulated adversely by those held accountable for protecting the citizen’s
constitutional rights.
That this information from the Patent Office led to an uncovering of corporations
which appear to show similarly named companies with patents transferring to
places unbeknownst to shareholders and lied about by their attorneys on patent
dockets used to raise capital and submitted to investigatory bodies. That these false
and misleading dockets, covered up further the truth about matters and now reveal
a far more devious and diabolical attempt to abscond with the patents and perhaps
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had this ploy worked, patents would have been transferred into wrongeful
companies and with wrongful inventors and all that would have been left was to
destroy the shareholder companies and leave bogus patents fraught with problems
to the investors and secretly steal off with the core inventions. Unbelievable and yet
factually correct.
That once Defendant’s realized that the proverbial cat was out of the bag, they
immediately began a series of steps to further cover-up their crimes and at the same
time reek havoc on the companies and inventor Bernstein’s life. Initially, without
knowledge of the Company or Board, Proskauer management referral Utley and
other Proskauer referred management filed an Involuntary Bankruptcy on
companies which they had no legal rights in and which may have been shell
corporations as described herein, in an attempt to smear Iviewit and secure leans on
the Iviewit Intellectual Properties through bogus and false submissions to the
Bankruptcy courts. Second, Proskauer, began a billing lawsuit, again unbeknownst
to shareholders or management, in a further attempt to harass and seek claims
against Companies with which they had no legal rights or contracts with, again in
what appears to gain control of patents hidden away in this myriad of corporations
and dually named inventions with differing inventors than the true and correct
inventors.
That Petitioner companies were informed of such Involuntary Bankruptcy and
Proskauer litigation, while in a meeting with AOLTW/WB executives, while
attempting to secure a $20,000,000.00 capital raise.
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That Petitioner companies were informed that patents were incorrectly named when
new patent counsel was hired jointly by Iviewit and Crossbow Ventures to
investigate allegations into the patent malfeasances committed by Raymond Joao,
Kenneth Rubenstein, William Dick, Douglas Boehm and Steven Becker, whereby
such information was contrary to prior information given to investors in the
companies.
That upon learning of these events Petitioner hired counsel to replace counsel that
had been representing the Company without company knowledge or consent and it
is at this juncture that Defendants had to escalate the cover-up. A longtime friend
of inventor Eliot Bernstein and a licensed attorney, Caroline Prochotska Rogers,
Esq. was counseled to help the Company respond to complaints that it was prior
unaware existed and to replace counsel which appears to have been conflicted with
Proskauer and Wheeler, Sachs Saxs & Klien (PR v. IV) and Bart Houston (Utley,
Reale, Hersch, REAL3D/RYJO (Intel, Silicon Graphics & Lockheed) v. Iviewit in
the Involuntary BK.
These actions against the Companies caused the companies to; lose financing deals,
licensing deals with SONY, WB, INTEL and others, caused uncertainty for
investors Crossbow Ventures who pulled out of funding commitments, unsure about
what they had invested in and what the state of the patents were and who owned
them and if they had any interest them what-so-ever.
With new counsel representing the Companies with consent, the Involuntary BK
was withdrawn by the opposing parties as evidence against them was first
submitted. The Proskauer v. Iv case to a whole new twist as prior counsel was
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replaced by Rogers with Steven Selz, Esq. of West Palm Beach, Fla. and depositions
were requested and new evidences were attempted to be submitted to the civil
circuit court in the form of the attached Counter Complaint – Exhibit “”. The
Counter Complaint was denied because it came late and after initial counsel that
had been unauthorized to represent the Company had waived most of the
companies rights to counter, somehow. That upon taking the deposition of Kenneth
Rubenstein, who had written in a sworn statement to Judge Labaraga that he never
heard of the Company and was being “harassed” to take a deposition and therefore
refusing, the deposition and evidences presented at the deposition show perjured
statements, as evidence and responses to questions paint a far more involved
Rubenstein than he stated to the Court. That Rubenstein walks out of deposition,
refusing to answer questions and is Court ordered to reconvene the deposition and
answer questions. That the Company was set for trial where counsel would have
confronted Utley, Rubenstein and Wheeler for materially perjured statements to the
Court and under deposition.
That the Company then engaged SB to represent them through a signed retainer
and investment LOU, attached herein, Exhibit “”, whereby SB after two years of
research into the allegations and charges, claimed to have contacted senior members
of Proskauer Rose LLP and prior to signing the LOU and without consent from
Companies, negotiated a settlement which they claimed would be a multimillion
dollar settlement and which would not release Proskauer from the liabilities of if the
patents were unrecoverable.
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That SB, upon signing the LOU, immediately after notify Companies of their
representation and paying Selz in entirety, SB asked Selz to retire as counsel as they
would be representing Iviewit. Selz filed a motion to such regard. On the day
before trial, at the end of the business day, Eliot Bernstein was sent a draft of a
settlement agreement, whereby SB had negotiated in multiple conflicting roles, a
settlement with Proskauer Rose LLP. The settlement was given to Bernstein with
express instruction that if it was not signed within five hours that the trial would be
in the morning, the document was delivered at noon.
The settlement document had express instructions that each party have counsel
review the settlement. Upon receiving the document Bernstein noted that several
parties whom were not enjoined in the lawsuit were being asked to take part in the
settlement, many of who had not even seen or reviewed the document and certainly
whereby counsel had not even been noticed. Upon explaining to SB that they could
not be counsel for all parties as they were attempting, due to their ownership
acquisition in Petitioner companies and the conflict this represented, counsel was
secured for both Bernstein and the Companies. Counsel for Bernstein and
Petitioner Companies immediately found major flaws in the document that would
need far more time to rectify and clarify before signing, in that some aspects of
signing without such due-diligence could expose those signing the settlement to
severe ramifications from shareholders, as the document also could not be found to
offer any benefits to the shareholders, and in fact, exposed them to grave risks of
losing protected attorney/client privileged patent information and allowing
Proskauer a get out of jail free card even in the event that through these crimes they
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had lost shareholder rights to the patents. In fact, the settlement could not be
signed, until the corporate governance matters were fully corrected and counsel for
Bernstein and Petitioner companies both would only allow signature if they were
waived as counsel prior to signing to as reduce liability for themselves. Needless to
say, the document could not be signed and therefore the day ended with all parties
stating that trial would be in the morning.
The following morning Steve Selz and Eliot Bernstein showed up for trial, to a trial
that had been unilaterally postponed by Proskauer and the Judge, with no notice to
Petitioner Companies counsel or Petitioner Companies. In the ensuing days, one of
the greatest travesties to due-process unfolded. First, at a hearing to reschedule the
trial, Petitioner Companies counsels (both SB and Selz) submitted withdrawal as
counsel papers to the Judge, both stating that the other would be representing
Petitioner Companies. The Judge granted both withdrawals on the same day, at the
same hearing, leaving Petitioner with no counsel.
That the series of events outlined above,Courts refusal to acknowledge the Counter
Complaint resulted in Petitioners’ filing of the bar complaints against Rubenstein,
Joao, Wheeler, Dick, members of SB, written statements complaints against
registered patent attorneys; Rubenstein, Joao, Dick, Boehm, Becker, Zafman,
Coester, Ahmini, Weisberg to the USPTO Office of Enrollment and Discipline, the
European Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office, the Department of Justice –
Antitrust Division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Florida Bar, The New
York Appellate Division: First Department Departmental Disciplinary Committee,
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the Virginia State Bar and the Boca Raton Police Department, and subsequently
this Petition.
SUMMARY
That contained in Petitioners’sPetitioner’s Motion for Leave to Proceed In Forma
Pauperis, Motion for Leave to File a Petition for an Extraordinary Writ, this Brief,
and the accompanying Petition to Intervene in All Matters to Protect Rights of
Inventors According to the Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 Afforded by the
Constitution of the United States and Petition to Fulfill Due Process Afforded by V
Amendment and the XIV Amendment, Section 1, Petitioners show a pattern of
fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation, that runs so wide and so deep, that it tears at
the very fabric of free commerce, and in that the circumstances involve inventors’
rights, the pattern tears at the very fabric of the Constitution of the United States.
Petitioners specify the types of relief sought as follows:
1. Assumption of the investigatory responsibilities of The Florida Bar under the
aegis of the Supreme Court of Florida; and
2. Assumption of the investigatory responsibilities of the Bar Association of the
State of New York and the Second Judicial Department Departmental
Disciplinary Committee under the aegis of the Appellate Division, Second
Department (New York); and
3. Assumption of the investigatory responsibilities of the Virginia State Bar;
and
4. Assumption of the investigatory responsibilities of the Pennsylvania Bar
Association; and
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5. Assumption of the investigatory responsibilities of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, West Palm Beach, Fla. branch office; and
6. Assumption of the investigatory responsibilities of the Boca Raton, Fla.
Police Department.
7. Levying of Cease & Desist to all users of petitioners under NDA and Patent
Pools
8. Levying relief under RICO, Conspiracy and fraud against the United States
and the USPTO
9. Levying relief to protect patent inventions lost, recover patents from
attorney’s with them in their names, rectify problems caused globally
10. Freeze assets of law firms
11. Do not allow self representation of PR due to already conflicts that have cost
US Supreme Courts to be disgraced
12. Intercede to protect the lives and inventions of the inventors
13. Intercede to provide a single court appointed attorney to either oversight
pro-se submissions in this case and lessen the burden to the Clerk of This
Court or provide counsel designated by This Court, that Plaintiff will trust
under such arrangement.
14. Issue subpoenas for all records for all parties involved in all matters, to
prevent further loss of records that are imperative to dating inventions and
protecting constitutional rights of inventors.
15. Issue immediate investigations into all filed charges, question all witnesses,
account for all submitted evidences, report all liabilities to exposed parties
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and with This Court’s oversight of these matters, Petitioner and Inventors
weary eyes feel that it will assure due process as this being the SUPREME
COURT, and this will preclude others from becoming entangled or conflicted
further, offsetting further cover-up and further liability to all those already
exposed and This Court must not fail as in the weary eyes of the Petitioner
and Inventors this is the court of last resort before all is truly lost.
16. That This Court provide protection and relief to the inventors so as to
restore the rightful condition of the company so as the true inventors and
shareholders enjoy their rights afforded to them under the Constitution and
relieve those accountable for such crimes with no worldly possessions in
retribution for any involvement and whatever criminal sanctions should be
at the maximum legal sentence for as lawyers they were surely aware of the
statement “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time” and were fully
cognizant of the laws they were breaking, This Court cannot give any
leniency to preclude the look of favoritism inherent already in the process if
the accused are found guilty of the crimes, which would cause loss of
confidence in This Court by the People.
17. That This Court establish through a fair and impartial review of the
evidences who the rightful inventors to the Technologies are and restore to
such inventors their due recognition and historical importance and finally a
treble damage minimum award against those who tried to claim others
inventions and destroyed lives in the pursuit.
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18. Grant all reliefs afforded under the law as This Court may find applicable
under the strenuous circumstances that now exist.
Attorney for PetitionersEliot I. Bernstein, Pro Se10158 Stonehenge Circle, #801Boynton Beach, Fla. 33437Tel.: (561) 364-4240
By: Eliot I. Bernstein
P. Stephen Lamont, Pro SeFour Ward StreetBrewster, N.Y. 10509Tel.: (914) 217-0038
By: P. Stephen Lamont
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
IN RE PROSKAUER ROSE LLP, MELTZER )LIPPE & GOLDSTEIN LLP, RAYMOND A. )JOAO, RYJO INC, RYAN HUISMAN, )WILLIAM J. DICK, DOUGLAS A. BOEHM, )FOLEY & LARDNER LLP, GERALD R. )LEWIN, ERIKA LEWIN, GOLDSTEIN )LEWIN & CO., BRIAN G. UTLEY, RAYMOND)T. HERSCH, MICHAEL A. REALE, F. ROSS ) Original JurisdictionMILLER, TIEDEMANN PROLOW IILLC, )CARL TIEDEMANN, BRUCE PROLOW, ) Case No. CRAIG SMITH, SCHIFFRIN & BARROWAY )LLP, HONORABLE JORGE LABARGA, and )BLAKELY SOKOLOFF TAYLOR & )ZAFMAN LLP II )
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ELIOT I. BERNSTEIN AND )P. STEPHEN LAMONT )
)Petitioners. )
PETITION TO INTERVENE IN ALL MATTERS TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF INVENTORS ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8, CLAUSE 8 AFFORDED BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND
PETITION TO FULFILL DUE PROCESS AFFORDED BY V AMENDMENT AND THE XIV AMENDMENT, SECTION 1
QUESTION FOR REVIEW
Whether the circumstances surrounding the Petitioners, consisting of the alleged
violation of their constitutional rights as inventors and the denial of due process of
law when combined with the need for the appellate jurisdiction of this Court and
the factual setting that adequate relief cannot be obtained in any other form or from
any other court, are sufficient in of themselves to request review by this Court so as
to minimize the damages Petitioners have incurred and forestall the continued
jeopardy of the timely patent prosecution of the Technology.
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PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING
The parties to the proceeding are:
1. Proskauer Rose LLP, a New York Limited Liability Partnership and its
members, former general and patent counsel to Petitioners; and
2. Meltzer Lippe Goldstein LLP (“MLG”), a New York Limited Liability
Partnership and its members, former patent counsel to Petitioners; and
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3. Raymond A. Joao, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of New
York and a former of counsel to MLG, one of the former patent counsels for
Petitioners; and
4. Ryjo, Inc., upon information and belief, a Florida corporation, and one of the
initial potential licensees of the Technology; and
5. Ryan Huisman, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida, and
a principal of Ryjo, Inc.; and
6. Foley & Lardner LLP, a Wisconsin Limited Liability Partnership and its
members, former patent counsel to Petitioners; and
7. William J. Dick, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida,
formerly a special counsel to Foley Lardner LLP and one of the former
patent counsels for Petitioners; and
8. Douglas A. Boehm, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Illinois,
formerly a member of Foley Lardner LLP and one of the former patent
counsels for Petitioners; and
9. Goldstein Lewin & Co., a Florida corporation, and outside CPA firm for
Petitioners; and
10. Gerald R. Lewin, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida, a
former outside CPA for Petitioners; and
11. Erika Lewin, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida, a
former outside CPA for Petitioners; and
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12. Brian G. Utley, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Minnesota,
a former President and Chief Operating Officer of affiliated entities related
to Petitioners; and
13. Raymond T. Hersch, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of
Florida, a former Chief Financial Officer of affiliated entities related to
Petitioners; and
14. Michael A Reale, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida, a
former Vice President of Operations of affiliated entities related to
Petitioners; and
15. F. Ross Miller, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Georgia, a
former Consultant of affiliated entities related to Petitioners; and
16. Tiedemann Prolow LLC, a New York Limited Liability Company, and one of
the institutional investors of affiliated entities related to Petitioners; and
17. Carl Tiedemann, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of New York,
a principal of Tiedemann Prolow LLC; and
18. Bruce Prolow, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of New York, a
principal of Tiedemann Prolow LLC; and
19. Craig Smith, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of New York, a
principal of Tiedemann Prolow LLC; and
20. Schiffrin & Barroway LLP, a Pennsylvania Limited Liability Partnership,
and former investors, patent counsel, and general counsel to affiliated entities
related to Petitioners; and
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21. Honorable Jorge Labarga, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of
Florida, the presiding judge in the Litigation; and
22. Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP, a California Limited Liability
Partnership, and former patent counsel to Petitioners; and
23. Eliot I. Bernstein, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of Florida,
the principal inventor of the Technology; and
24. P. Stephen Lamont, a sui juris individual and resident of the State of New
York, and Chief Executive Officer of affiliated entities related to Petitioners.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
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CITATIONS
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STATEMENT OF JURISDICTION
Petitioners rely on Rule 20.1, Procedure for the Granting of an Extraordinary Writ,
of the Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States, wherein such rule states:
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“[T]he petition must show that the writ will be in the aid of the Court’s appellate
jurisdiction, that exceptional circumstances warrant the exercise of the Court’s
discretionary powers, and that adequate relief cannot be obtained in any other form
or any other court.”5
CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS
Petitioners request review of the question stated herein and rely on Article 1,
Section 8, Clause 8 afforded by the Constitution of the United States that states: “To
promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to
Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and
Discoveries.”6
Second, Petitioners request review of the question stated herein and rely on V
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that states:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime,
unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases
arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in
time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same
offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in
any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life,
liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property
be taken for public use, without just compensation7.
Third, Petitioners request review of the question stated herein and rely on XIV
Amendment, Section 1 to the Constitution of the United States that states: 5 Blue Book Citiation…6 Blue Book Citation…7 Blue Book Citation…
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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein
they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State
deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws8.
STATEMENT OF FACTS
Contained in this Petition, and as summarized by the following graph, Petitioners
depict a conspiratorial pattern of fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation, that runs so
wide and so deep, that it tears at the very fabric of free commerce, and in that the
circumstances involve inventors’ rights, the pattern tears at the very fabric of the
Constitution of the United States.
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LACK OF DUE PROCESS AND INFRINGMENT OF INVENTORS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Petitioners
Robert Kafin, Christopher C. Wheeler, Kenneth Rubenstein
& Proskauer Rose LLP
Joint and several Malpractice, Theft of Trade Secrets,
Conspiracy
Prior Management &Certain Directors
Breach of Contract, Breach of Fiduciary Duties, Conspiracy
Huizenga Holdings
Theft of Trade Secrets,
Conspiracy
MPEG LA and other Infringers
Theft of Trade Secrets, Breach of Contract
Raymond A. Joao & MLG
Joint and several Malpractice, Theft of
Trade Secrets, Conspiracy
William Dick, et al & Foley Lardner
Joint and several Malpractice, Theft of Trade Secrets,
Conspiracy
Tiedemann/Prolow and Principals Breach of Fiduciary Duties, Grand theft,
Conspiracy
Conflicts of Interest, Impropriety, No
Investigation
The Florida Bar & Supreme Court
Joint and several Malpractice, Conspiracy
Conflicts of Interest, Impropriety, No
Investigation
BSTZ
NY Disc Comm’s & Appellate Division
15th Judicial Circuit (Florida)
Denied Motions: Counterclaim, Granted Motions: Counsel
Withdraws
FBI, Local PD, USPTO
More than 12 Mo. Delays, No
Investigation
SB
Joint and several Malpractice, Conspiracy
PATENT RIGHTS LOST!
PATENT RIGHTS LOST!
PATENT RIGHTS LOST!
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That Wheeler, was a partner of Proskauer Rose, LLP (“Proskauer”) and who
provided legal services to Petitioner.
That Rubenstein who at various times relevant hereto was initially misrepresented
by Wheeler as a partner of Proskauer and later became a partner of Proskauer, and
who provided legal services to the Petitioners both while at MLGS and Proskauer.
That Joao who initially was represented to be Rubenstein's associate at Proskauer,
when in fact Joao has never been an employee of Proskauer but in fact was an
employee of MLGS.
That beginning in 1998, Petitioners held discussions with Wheeler and Rubenstein
with regard to Proskauer providing legal services to Petitioners involving specific
technologies developed by Eliot I. Bernstein (one of the Petitioners in this matter)
and two others, Zakirul Shirajee and Jude Rosario collectively termed hereinafter
(“Inventors”), which technologies allowed for:
ii. Zooming of digital images and video without degradation to the quality of
the digital image due to what is commonly referred reed to as "pixelation";
and,
iii. The delivery of digital video using proprietary scaling techniques
whereby a seventy-five percent (75%) bandwidth savings was discovered and
a corresponding seventy-five percent (75%) processing power decrease and
storage efficiency were realized; and,
iv. A combination of the image zoom techniques and video scaling
techniques described above; and,
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v. The remote control of video cameras through communications networks.
That Inventors and later Petitioners, initially engaged the services of Proskauer to
provide legal services to a company to be formed, including corporate formation
and governance for a single entity and to obtain multiple patents and oversee US
and foreign filings for such technologies including the provisional filings for the
technologies as described above, ("Technology"), and such other activities as were
necessary to protect the intellectual property represented by the Technology.
That the Technology, when bundled with third-party technologies, provides for
VHS quality video at transmission speeds of 56Kbps (“modem dial-up connection”),
previously thought to be impossible, to DVD quality at up to 6MB per second
(traditional terrestrial or broadcast station to home antennae), and has an
incredible seventy five percent (75%) savings in throughput (“bandwidth”) on any
digital delivery system such as cable, satellite, multipoint-multichannel delivery
system, or the Internet, and a similar seventy five percent (75%) savings in storage
and processing on mediums such as digital video discs (“DVD’s”), opening the door
for low bandwidth video cell phones and other revolutionary video markets.
That at the time of the engagement of Proskauer and thereafter, Petitioners’
companies and shareholders at such time, were advised and otherwise led to believe
that Rubenstein was the Proskauer partner in charge of the account for patents and
Wheeler for corporate matters, further this information was used to raise all of the
capital and included in a Wachovia Securities Private Placement Memorandum
(“PPM”), pursuant to Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, that Proskauer co-
authored, billed for and disseminated, whereby Wheeler and Rubenstein also served
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as active members of an Advisory Board for Petitioners’ companies in which
Wheeler and Rubenstein were essential to raising capital and directing the patent
applications, copyrights and corporate matters.
That upon information and belief, Proskauer, MLGS, Wheeler, Rubenstein, and
Joao upon viewing the Technology developed by Inventors, realized the significance
of the Technology, its various applications to communication networks for
distributing video and images and for existing digital processes, including but not
limited to, all forms of video delivery, digital cameras, digital imaging technologies
for medical purposes and digital video, and that Proskauer, MLGS, Wheeler,
Rubenstein and Joao then conspired to undertake and in fact undertook a
deliberate course of conduct to deprive Inventors and Petitioners of the beneficial
use of such Technology for their own gains. Proskauer, MLGS, Rubenstein,
Wheeler and Joao, further allowed the unauthorized use of the Technology by third-
parties, such as Rubenstein’s patent pools and, pursuant to Non-Disclosure
Agreements (“NDA’s”), for multitudes of their clients that are now not enforced,
whereby Proskauer is fully cognizant of their client’s uses of Petitioners’
Technology under such NDA’s. Additionally, it is factually alleged that members of
Proskauer, members of MLGS, Wheeler, Rubenstein and Joao all have had
personal financial gains through the misappropriation of Petitioners’ Technology
and Proskauer has earned profit and other gains to its entire partnership and all
members, through the acquisition of the patent pools as a client (after learning of
Petitioners’ Technology), and the further exclusion of Petitioners from such patent
pools which generate enormous fees to Proskauer and perhaps other untold
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revenues, all to the detriment and damage of the Petitioners. This behavior may
very well represent antitrust claims against Proskauer, Rubenstein and the patent
pools they oversight and directly choose patents for inclusion therein.
That Wheeler, who was a close friend of Utley, recommended to Petitioners that
Petitioners engage the services of Utley to act as President of Petitioners’ companies
based on his knowledge and ability as to technology issues.
That at the time that Wheeler made the recommendation of Utley to the Board of
Directors, Wheeler knew that Utley had been engaged in a dispute with his former
employer, Diamond Turf Equipment, Inc. (“DTE”) and the fact that Utley had
misappropriated certain patents on hydro-mechanical systems to the detriment of
DTE, as Utley was terminated for cause according to Monte Friedkin (“Friedkin”),
owner of DTE and that DTE was closed due to Utley, forcing the owner to take a
several million dollar loss.
That on information and belief, Proskauer and Wheeler may have had a part in the
misappropriation of the patents from DTE with Utley, in that Wheeler had formed
a company for Utley where the misappropriated patents are believed to have been
transferred. Despite Wheeler’s involvement, Wheeler was fully cognizant of this
patent dispute with Utley and DTE, as confirmed by the former owner of DTE,
Friedkin, and further confirmed in depositions with Utley and Wheeler. That
Proskauer and Wheeler’s recommendation of Utley to the Board of Directors
knowingly failed to disclose these past patent problems to Petitioners and in fact
Proskauer and Wheeler circulated a resume on behalf of Utley claiming that as a
result of Utley’s inventions that DTE went on to become a leader in the industry,
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when Proskauer and Wheeler knew that the company had been closed by the patent
problems of Utley and perhaps actions of Proskauer and Wheeler. That Proskauer
and Wheeler further conspired with Utley to circulate a knowingly false and
misleading resume to Petitioners’ shareholders and induced investment without
ever disclosing this information.
That despite such knowledge, Proskauer and Wheeler never mentioned such facts
concerning Utley to any representative of Petitioners and in fact undertook to "sell"
Utley as a highly qualified candidate who would be the ideal person to undertake
day to day operations of Petitioners acting as a qualified engineer which he was not.
That additionally, Proskauer and Wheeler continued to assist Utley in perpetrating
such fraud on both the Board of Directors of Petitioners and to third parties,
including for the Wachovia Securities PPM, by approving a false resume for Utley
which was included in the raising funds, pursuant to and in violation of Regulation
D of the Securities Act of 1933.
That based on the recommendations of Proskauer and Wheeler, and Wheeler
relationship as a ten year friend of Utley, the Board of Directors agreed to engage
the services of Utley as President and Chief Operating Officer based on false and
misleading information knowingly proffered by Proskauer and Wheeler.
That almost immediately after Utley's employment, Proskauer and Wheeler
provided a purported retainer agreement (“Retainer”) for the providing of services
by Proskauer to Petitioners, addressed to Utley. That the Retainer agreement
comes after one year of Proskauer providing services whereby patent disclosures
were given directly from Inventors to Proskauer partners in that time, including but
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not limited to, Wheeler, Rubenstein and Joao. Finally, on information and belief,
Petitioners states that Proskauer through Wheeler and Utley conspired to replace
the original retainer agreement with the Petitioners companies, with the Retainer
void of patent services that were originally agreed upon and performed on. That
the services provided were in fact to be partially paid out of the royalties recovered
from the use of the Technology, which was to be included in patent pools overseen
by Proskauer and Rubenstein who had already deemed them “novel” and
“essential” to the patent pools.
That the Retainer by its terms contemplated the providing of corporate and general
legal services to Petitioners by Proskauer and was endorsed by Utley on behalf of
Petitioners, the Board of Directors of Petitioners would not have Utley authorized to
endorse same as it did not include the intellectual property work which Proskauer
and Rubenstein had already undertaken.
That prior to the Retainer, Proskauer, Rubenstein, and Wheeler had provided legal
services to Petitioners, including services regarding patents with Rubenstein being
given full disclosure of the patent processes.
That Proskauer billed Petitioners for legal services related to corporate, patent,
trademark, copyright and other work in a sum of approximately Eight Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($800,000) and now claims to have not done patent work, a
materially false statement with insurmountable evidence to the contrary, as
evidenced by the management section, including Advisory Board, for the Wachovia
Securities PPM used to induce investment and loans including from the Small
Business Administration, a federal agency, and whereby it states that Proskauer was
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“retained patent counsel” for Petitioners companies and contrary to the current
claims by Proskauer and Rubenstein that they preformed no patent work told to
state and federal investigatory bodies.
That Proskauer billed Petitioners for copyright legal services never performed
causing loss of intellectual property rights, double-billed by the use of multiple
counsel on the same issue, falsified and altered billing information to hide patent
work and systematically overcharged for services provided.
That based on the over-billing by Proskauer, Petitioners paid a sum in of
approximately Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) together with a two
and one-half percent (2.5%) equity interest in Petitioners’ companies, which sums
and interest in Petitioners’ companies was received and accepted by Proskauer.
That Wheeler, Utley, Rubenstein, Joao, Proskauer, and MLGS conspired to deprive
Petitioners of its rights to the Technology developed by Inventors by:
xi. Aiding Joao in improperly filing patents for Petitioners Technology by
intentionally withholding pertinent information from such patent
applications and not filing same timely, to allow Joao to apply for similar
patents in his own name and other malfeasances, both while acting as counsel
for Petitioners and subsequently. That Joao now claims that since working
with Petitioners companies he has filed approximately ninety patents in his
own name, and;
xii. Upon discovery of the problems in Joao’s work and that Joao was writing
patents benefiting from Petitioners’ Technology in his name, that Proskauer,
Wheeler, Rubenstein and Utley referred the patent matters for correction to
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Dick of Foley, who was also a close personal friend of Utley and who had
been involved, unbeknownst and undisclosed to Petitioners at the time, in the
diversion of patents to Utley at his former employer DTE, perhaps with
Wheeler, to the detriment of DTE, thereby establishing a pattern of patent
malfeasances; and,
xiii. Proskauer, Rubenstein, Wheeler, Dick and Utley further conspiring to
transfer patent assignments to the wrong companies, the formations of which
were unauthorized by Petitioners, whereby Proskauer may now have full
ownership of such patents, quite to the detriment of Petitioners and
Petitioners’ companies shareholders; and,
xiv. Proskauer, Rubenstein, Wheeler, Dick and Utley further conspiring in
the transferring of prior patent applications or the filing of new patent
applications, unbeknownst to Petitioners, conspiring with Foley so as to
name Utley as the sole holder or joint inventor of multiple patents
fraudulently and with improper assignment to improper entities, when in
fact such inventions were and arose from the Technology developed by
Inventors and held by Petitioners companies, prior to Utley's employment
with Petitioners; and,
xv. Further failing to list proper inventors and fraudulently adding inventors
to the patents, constituting charges now pending before the Commissioner of
Patents (“Commissioner”) of fraud upon the United States Patent and
Trademark Office (“USPTO”) against these attorneys as filed by Petitioners
and its largest investor Crossbow Ventures, resulting in the failure of the
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patents to include their rightful and lawful inventors as confirmed in
conversations and correspondence with the USPTO. The wrong inventors
has lead to investors not having proper and full ownership in the patents and
in some cases NO ownership; and,
xvi. Failing to properly assign the inventions and fraudulently conveying to
investors and potential investors knowingly false and misleading intellectual
property dockets and other false and misleading information, prepared and
disseminated by these attorneys. The intellectual property dockets illustrate
false and misleading information on the inventors, assignees and owners of
the Technology. The wrong assignments may lead to investors not having
proper and full ownership in the patents; and,
xvii. Knowingly and wifully, failing to ensure that the patent applications for
the Technology contained all necessary and pertinent information relevant to
the Technology and as required by patent law; and,
xviii. Billing for, and then failing to secure copyrights. Failing to complete
copyright work for the source code for the Technology of Petitioners as
intellectual property. Further, falsifying billing statements to replace
copyright work with trademark work, although the billings are full of
copyright work that has never been performed; and,
xix. Allowing the infringement of patent rights of Petitioners and the
intellectual property of Petitioners by patent pools overseen by Proskauer
and Rubenstein, and, other clients of Proskauer, MLGS, Rubenstein, Joao
and Wheeler, whereby Proskauer, MLGS, Rubenstein, Joao and Wheeler
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profit from such infringement to the detriment of Petitioners. Finally, that
Proskauer, MLGS, Rubenstein, Joao and Wheeler clients all profit from
violations of NDA’s secured by Proskauer and their partners, infringements
all to the detriment of Petitioners; and,
xx. Allowing Rubenstein, whom acted as patent counsel and an Advisory
Board member to Petitioners, full access to the patent processes to proliferate
throughout the patent pools he controls with Proskauer, causing exposure to
Petitioners. Thereafter, Rubenstein now attempts to state that he does not
know the Company, the Inventors, or the Technology and never was involved
in any way, thereby constituting perjured deposition testimony and further
false statements to a tribunal by Proskauer and Rubenstein. Witnesses and
direct evidence refute Rubenstein’s denials, and, further, Proskauer failed to
secure conflict of interest waivers from Petitioners, has no “Chinese Wall”
between Rubenstein and Petitioners, that under ordinary circumstances such
conflict waivers and separations would have been common place for
Proskauer, as a result of the patent pools and Proskauer and Rubenstein’s
involvement with such pools, which directly compete with Petitioners’
Technology. Furthermore, Rubenstein heads the following departments for
Proskauer all of which did work and billed for such work for Petitioners and
likewise would have caused conflict waivers to be secured: patents,
trademarks and copyrights, and whereby Proskauer and Rubenstein are now
the single largest benefactor of Petitioners’ Technology because of such
conflicts and failure to obtain such waivers.
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That Petitioners, in discussions with the USPTO on or about February 1, 2004, finds
patent information different from every intellectual property docket delivered to
Petitioners by every retained patent counsel, as to inventors, assignments, and, in
particular, one or more patent applications in the name of Utley with no assignment
to Petitioners, and to which, according to the USPTO, Petitioners presently holds no
rights, titles, or interest in that particular patent application. That such patent
issues have caused Petitioners, in conjunction with its largest investor, Crossbow
Ventures (the largest South Florida venture fund) and Stephen J. Warner, the Co-
Founder and former Chairman of the Board, to file a complaint with the USTPO
alleging charges of Fraud Upon the United States Patent and Trademark Office,
now causing the Commissioner, after review, to put multiple six-month suspension
on all Petitioners’ US patent applications while investigations should proceed into
the attorney malfeasances and attempt to mitigate further damages and protect the
remaining patent applications from further loss.
That Wheeler, Rubenstein and Proskauer, rather than pursuing the corporate
formation and governance for entities directed by the Board of Directors, proceeded
to engage in fraud and deceit by the corporate formation of multiple entities in a
multi-tiered structure thus engaging, effectively, in a “shell game” as to which entity
and under what structure would hold assignment of the Technology.
That upon information and belief, Wheeler, Rubenstein, Joao, MLGS and
Proskauer through a disingenuous scheme comprised of the unauthorized formation
of similarly named entities, unauthorized asset acquisitions and transfers,
unauthorized name changes, falsification of inventors and falsification of
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assignments, all that effectively result in the assignment of Petitioners’sPetitioner’s
core inventions to: wrong inventors, wrong assignees, and, finally, on information
and belief, an entity, Iviewit Technologies, Inc., of which Proskauer is one of four, or
lessthe only, presumed shareholders and whereby the company was set up solely by
Proskauer to hold Proskauer stock in Petitioners’ companies, and whereby the
Petitioners’ companies shareholders now have no verifiable ownership interest in
Iviewit Technologies, Inc. which now holds several core patents, not none of these
shell transactions were ever authorized by the Board of Directors. With no evidence
of an ownership position of Petitioners in Iviewit Technologies, Inc., and whereby a
terminated Arthur Andersen audit, terminated by Arthur Andersen, failed to prove
any incident of ownership, it remains unclear if the Petitioners’ shareholders have
any interest in these patents in such unauthorized entity. This potential “shell
game” resulted from a name change from the unauthorized Proskauer entity named
originally Iviewit Holdings, Inc. to Iviewit Technologies, Inc., which was formed by
Proskauer, unbeknownst to the Board of Directors, with an identical name to a
Petitioners’ company Iviewit Holdings, Inc. that was changing its name from
Uview.com, Inc. and in the two weeks the unauthorized entity maintained an exactly
identical name to Petitioners’ to-be-renamed company, patents were assigned into
the now named Iviewit Technologies, Inc., which on the day Petitioners company
changed it’s name to Iviewit Holdings, Inc. Proskauer changed the name of their
entity from Iviewit Holdings, Inc. to Iviewit Technologies, Inc., with the assigned
patents ending up in the unauthorized company, whereby Proskauer may be a
majority shareholder with Petitioners’ investors not having any ownership in the
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patents in the unauthorized entity. It is alleged that Proskauer maintained two sets
of corporate books, two sets of patent books and was attempting to direct the core
patents out of the Petitioners’ companies naming Utley as the inventor and leaving
Petitioners’ companies bankrupt and with inferior patents while the core
technologies were absconded with.
That Utley, Wheeler, Rubenstein and Proskauer engaged in the transfer of a loan
from a group of Proskauer referred investors and that such loan transacted without
approval from the Board of Directors or the Petitioners’ lead investor and without
full and complete documentation of the transaction ever being properly completed
and no bank records produced to correspond to such transaction. That upon
learning of such loan transaction and requesting auditing of such transaction,
Petitioners found missing records and that, further, employees’ eyewitness
testimonies in written statements, show a large briefcase of cash, claimed to be from
the Proskauer investors, was used to attempt to bribe employees to steal trade
secrets and proprietary equipment, and further such equipment was stolen off with
by Proskauer’s management team led by Utley, as he was being fired with cause
when he was found to be misappropriating patents into his name. This alleged theft
of between Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($600,000.00) and One Million Dollars
($1,000,000.00) by Proskauer and their management referrals, of money loaned to
the Company, was referred to the Boca Raton Police Department who have
purportedly referred the matter to the Securities and Exchange Commission; the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (West Palm Beach) was also notified.
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That as a direct and proximate result of the actions of the Wheeler, Rubenstein,
Joao, MLGS and Proskauer, Petitioners have been damaged in a sum estimated to
be approximately Seventeen Billion Dollars ($17,000,000,000.00), based on company
projections and corroborated by industry experts as to the value of the Technology
and the applications to current and future uses over the twenty year life of such
patents.
That the series of events outlined above, resulted in Petitioners’ filing of the
complaints against Rubenstein, Joao, Wheeler, Dick, members of SB, written
statements to the USPTO, the European Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office,
the Department of Justice – Antitrust Division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
and the Boca Raton Police Department, and subsequently this Petition.
SUMMARY
That contained in Petitioner’s Motion for Leave to Proceed In Forma Pauperis,
Motion for Leave to File a Petition for an Extraordinary Writ, this Brief, and the
accompanying Petition to Intervene ______________, Petitioners show a pattern of
fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation, that runs so wide and so deep, that it tears at
the very fabric of free commerce, and in that the circumstances involve inventors’
rights, the pattern tears at the very fabric of the Constitution of the United States.
Attorney for PetitionersEliot I. Bernstein, Pro Se10158 Stonehenge Circle, #801Boynton Beach, Fla. 33437Tel.: (561) 364-4240By:
Eliot I. Bernstein
P. Stephen Lamont, Pro SeFour Ward Street
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Brewster, N.Y. 10509Tel.: (914) 217-0038By:
P. Stephen Lamont
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