Iviewit News Story
This was printed as a news story at http://www.c10n.info/archives/325 it is interesting that the article at the news site disappeared. The editor said he had contacted Proskauer and was waiting to post a reply when the article disappeared. Pass this Iviewit news story around; it is quite interesting that someone picked it up. I received a notice from my Google alert on MPEG which is even more profound.

From: Google Alerts [mailto:googlealerts-noreply@google.com]Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:26 PM To: Iviewit Subject: Google Alert - mpeg Google Alert for: mpeg - Is MPEG LA a criminal organization stealing inventions from small ...

DataCompression News Blog - USA... Eliot Bernstein says that he is an inventor and that his inventions were stolen by the MPEG licensor MPEGLA, and that Iviewit has gone to court for this. ...for the rest of the story visit http://www.c10n.info/archives/325

Is MPEG LA a criminal organization stealing inventions from small inventors? Eliot Bernstein of Iviewit technologies alleges that MPEGLA’s primary patent reviewer Kenneth Rubenstein and Proskauer, along with some others, stole their inventions and patented them in their own names.

January 18th, 2006 Posted by Sachin Garg Permanent link Eliot Bernstein of Iviewit technologies alleges that MPEGLA’s primary patent reviewer Kenneth Rubenstein and Proskauer, along with some others, stole their inventions and patented them in their own names. Eliot Bernstein says that he is an inventor and that his inventions were stolen by the MPEG licensor MPEGLA, and that Iviewit has gone to court for this. He says that the primary patent reviewer for MPEG, Kenneth Rubenstein, who works for law firm Proskauer Rose LLP, along with Proskauer were patent counsel for the Iviewit inventors while they were controlling MPEG and acting as its counsel, they then stole the Iviewit technologies from the inventors the represented. (For those who don’t know, MPEG contains IP from lots of patents, held by many peoples/companies. MPEGLA is an organization which collaborates with all those who have pooled their IP into MPEG and lets users license all those patents from a single source) An excerpt: Rubenstein’s former partner Raymond Anthony Joao, Esq., now has applied for ninety patents in his own name, (yes the patent attorney has patented the inventions in his own name, it should not even be possible but…) many stolen directly from the inventions he and Rubenstein were supposed to patent for Iviewit. He further blamed them and few employees from IBM to have worked together in unison to steal other inventions from Iviewit, another Florida company, Diamond Turf Equipment and other small inventors. Another excerpt: This is truly the greatest patent story ever told and as American citizens we must, must, prevent this type of legal crime, committed by attorneys, to protect the Constitution. If all this is true, I have to admit it will be one the big patent stories around. More information at http://www.iviewit.tv and http://patentgate.blogspot.com


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