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, wonder if the author did to. He 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 PMTo: IviewitSubject: 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 forthis. He says that the primary patent reviewer for MPEG, KennethRubenstein, who works for law firm Proskauer Rose LLP, along withProskauer 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 allthose 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…) manystolen 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

Update: Here is a mail I recieved from Eliot Bernstein:To convince you to the truth of the matter you can visit our websitewww.iviewit.tv which offers a wealth of information on the story. TheUnited States Patent & Trademark Office - Office of Enrollment andDiscipline (OED) Director Harry I. Moatz is now investigating no less than 9 attorneys from several US law firms including Proskauer (main culprit) and Foley & Lardner for fraud upon the United States Patent Office in their signing false oaths on applications. The attorney Raymond Joao who has the ninety patents in his name (sick) is one of those being investigated, as he was our attorney and was filing the patents for our inventions into his and other false inventors names. The Commissioner ofPatents for the USPTO has suspended several of Iviewit’s applications pending charges of fraud on the US. The FBI is investigating the matter with the USPTO and that is out of their W. Palm Beach office, SpecialAgent Stephen Luchessi. Internationally, the Institute of ProfessionalRepresentatives before the European Patent Office (epi) is now formally investigating the European attorneys involved in filing the foreign applications. The true inventors were myself, Jude Rosario, Zakirul Shirajee and James F. Armstrong. The main culprit was our attorney, Kenneth Rubenstein who is in charge of the MPEGLA patent pool. Rubenstein acting as counsel forMPEGLA and Iviewit, never protected the inventors and in fact, seeing that the Iviewit scaling imaging and video inventions trumped his MPEGtechnologies, decided to attempt to steal the patents with his firm Proskauer Rose, our former law firm. Proskauer and Rubenstein control theMPEG patent pool. Several other investigations are also under way, including the Small Business Administration, the Inspector General of theSBA is looking into the misuse of SBA funds and the fact that the SBA is the largest investor in our technologies through SBA loans, also leaves them wondering why the inventors and owners of the technologies are falsified.
Update: Here is the complete comment originally posted by Eliot Bernstein:I received the message (as a comment here at c10n) from Eliot Bernstein ofIviewit companies, and felt it is interesting enough to be posted here (the comment was held for moderation due to its length).The MPEG license and the licensor MPEGLA is an anticompetitive monopolistic patent pooling scheme that has misappropriated technology from Iviewit Technologies and therefore acts as a Racketeering and CorruptOrganization. The primary patent reviewer for MPEG is Kenneth Rubensteinwho is currently under investigation by the United States Patent & Trademark Office for theft of intellectual properties from the Iviewit inventors, including Eliot Bernstein, Jude Rosario, Zakirul Shirajee, James Armstrong, Matthew Mink and Patricia Daniels. The law firm thatRubenstein works for, Proskauer Rose LLP, has acquired control of MPEG. Rubenstein and Proskauer Rose are under investigation by federal authorities for a host of federal, state and international crimes commissioned in the theft of the Iviewit intellectual properties. Proskauer and Rubenstein 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, bundled them into a anticompetitive pool, constituting a racketeering organization and have tried to consistently destroy Iviewit and inventor Eliot Bernstein and his family and friends. Rubenstein’s former partner RaymondAnthony Joao, Esq., now has applied for ninety patents in his own name, (yes the patent attorney has patented the inventions in his own name, itshould not even be possible but…) many stolen directly from the inventions he and Rubenstein were supposed to patent for Iviewit. Foley and Lardner and partners of their firm, including former IBM patent counsel William J. Dick are also involved in perpetrating the crimes against Iviewit and likewise are also federal, state and international investigations for their part in the attempted theft of their client Iviewits’ inventions.Foley and Lardner, a large intellectual property firm should also be regarded as a potential patent law firm involved in theft of patents from inventors. Members of Proskauer, Christopher Wheeler, Esq. and two formerIBM employees, William Dick and Brian Utley formerly had tried to steal inventions from another Florida company, Diamond Turf Equipment, which led to that company being forced out of business, costing the owner millions of dollars in losses. It appears that many of the patent thieves have worked together in unison to steal other inventions and this should be a stark warning that coincidence is not an element but these are targeted attacks on inventors’ intellectual properties. As with most patent pooling schemes, this MPEG scheme created by Rubenstein and Proskauer to steal inventions from inventors will eventually be exposed and the Justice Departmetn will press charges for criminal actions. How will our government then return the inventions to the true and proper inventors and close this hole in the system is still up in the air, so stay tuned forIviewit or Patentgate updates. The Iviewit patents and trademarks have been suspended by the Commissionerof Patents at the United States Patent & Trademark Office and licenses taken for the scaling video and imaging patents paid to MPEG for stolen technologies may result in further licensing costs to those who take MPEG licenses for such technologies when the Iviewit patents are granted. Death threats and an attempted car bombing of inventor Bernstein have recently been executed and several more investigations have resulted. Is MPEG LA a criminal organization stealing inventions from small inventors and then perpetrating crimes against the inventors to destroy them or put them outof business, it appears so. If you are submitting patents to MPEG and are a small inventor it would be wise to first visit the Iviewit site atwww.iviewit.tv or read of inventor Bernstein’s struggle to regain his technologies from MPEG and it’s accomplices athttp://patentgate.blogspot.com . Without the Iviewit scaling inventions MPEG technology licenses would be worthless, as without scaling technologies for video they would be limited in ability to create new age video for low and high bandwidth applications. Digital camera’s and other technologies using scaled imaging may also be infringing upon the Iviewit inventions and many companies, including several Fortune 500 companies, have violated their confidentiality agreements with Iviewit.The Iviewit inventions have been heralded worldwide by leading engineers as Holy Grail inventions that have revolutionized the digital imaging and video world. If you are appalled by the crimes described at the Iviewit site, please feel free to leave your comments http://patentgate.blogspot.com or send an email to iviewit@iviewit.tv and we will publish your comments and concerns. The theft of is a federal offense and these crimes have constituted charges of fraud not only on Iviewit and the Iviewit shareholders but crimes against the United States and Foreign Nations. The crimes could lead to a loss of faith in the United States Patent Office and the attorneys that are registered with the patent office to protect inventors. Such degradation of this most esteemed institution could lead inventors to seekprotection of their inventions in other countries. Imagine the United States losing inventions to other countries because inventors fear thatnot only will their inventions be stolen but criminal organizations such as MPEGLA operated by criminals such as Rubenstein will then try to kill them for their inventions or destroy their lives and companies. 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. The Constitution in Article 1, Section 8,Clause 8 specifically states that “Congress shall have the power 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.” Without this right guaranteed to small inventors and further where the very system designed to protect such rights has become embroiled in the violation of such rights, we must demand full investigation of all threads of this crime and the criminal organization cloaked in law that have learned how to usurp this fundamental concept of democracy. Please visit and comment at www.iviewit.tv or http://patentgate.blogspot.com or write to iviewit@iviewit.tv or add a thread here at this site. Thank you ~ Inventor Eliot Bernstein and the Iviewit companies I close with a quip from Mark Twain who also believed strongly in the value of the patent system. In his book, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Hank Morgan, the Connecticut Yankee, he said “…the very first official thing I did in my administration-and it was on the very first day of it too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab and couldn’t travel anyway but sideways and backwards.”END

1 Comment Add your own1. Mark Nelson January 18th, 2006 at 9:58 amThis is a pretty wild story! The guys at MPEG LA are sort of in theposition of guarding the treasury, so perhaps there is a lot of temptationto resist. I have to admit that hearing of a patent attorney filing forpatents in his own name sounds pretty fishy.