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I bought into Vplm a long time ago. I kept buying and buying and buying, as they kept lying and lying and lying. At the same time all the now known to be full of crap self appointed elite true longs, kept saying the same exact thing you quote from WB, ie, hold tight to your shares and don't pay any attention to THE REALITY of the way the market presents. As I kept buying and buying, the pps was also going up and up and up. Then it did what vplm historically always does, which is dive, dive dive and always be biased towards going down.... ALWAYS! Consequently, I wound up way underwater and had I not wised up to what vplm reality is AND how stupid it is, ESPECIALLY in the world of OTC pennystocks, to not let anyone shake out your shares. But I did wise up to the Vplm farce AND to the stupidity of holding tight and began to daytrade and since it used to have enough ups and downs all the time, I was able to recoup not only all my on paper losses but also make lots of profit AND retain lots of shares for hopefully later icing. I was also able to help another investor who had been in same but worse boat by encouraging they do the same, which they did.
And now, all these years later, had I not done this, I would still be waaaay underwater, like the majority of Vplm shareholders are. The moral of the story: F holding tight to OTC pennystocks. Most OTC pennystocks are losers in the end.
WOW, unbelievable not being able to process the idiocy of a CEO speaking to individual shareholders and telling them not to sell, as his wife and other insiders continue to sell. INCREDIBLE to say the least.
What a predicament, if VPLM doesn’t come to fruition! Scary stuff, I certainly wouldn’t want to be out in that situation!
Hopefully, VPLM can monetize and the stupidity of this won’t be an issue!
IMHO
This may be a good time to consider the wise words of the famed investor, Warren Buffett: "Buy good stocks that you can believe in, and plan to hold them for a good while. Do not watch the daily price fluctuations. It's like buying a farm, or land. Just because someone comes along and offers you half what you paid for it, don't sell. Not everyone has the emotional temperament to invest in stocks."
I would add this. If the reasons that you bought VPLM still exist, then hold until those reasons either change or until they become fully validated (confirmed). The reasons that I bought VPLM still exist, and new and even more compelling reasons have been added since. However, I would be disingenuous if I were to say that I am not disappointed that the current price is not at least 50 cents (based on the fact that VPLM was $.45 a while back, and with less to show for it than we see today). However, when it is trading at 50 cents (or higher), today's prices will only mean that I could have bought it at a lower price. But what genius can pick the low, or the high of a stock beforehand? That's fool's play! The only relevant question is, do you still believe that the potential value of VPLM is significantly higher than today's prices? This stock tends to drift downward slowly on low volume in the absence of news, and skyrocket on high volume with good news. Remember, we are going before a patent friendly judge with a strong patent portfolio that has only been reinforced by 36 out of 36 IPR wins. GLTA.
In Apple's 14-year legal battle against VirnetX over alleged patent infringement by FaceTime, the iPhone maker was ruled to pay out $502.8 million in 2020, a verdict it managed to defeat in 2023. Almost one year later, VirnetX's last chance to keep its payout alive has bit the dust.
True. Kove trial took 6 freaking years to reach the point of a verdict and now heading to appeals court which could take another 2-3 years. The wheels of justice may have turned slowly in this case but at least they turned. Compared to this, it feels like the VPLM wheels of justice have gone flat!
Wonder if Amazon filed a plethora of IPRs against the Kove patents to try to get them invalidated.
Has absolutely NOTHING to do with VPLM.
And the Huawei claims construction was reset for May 29, 2024.
Added value for any acquisition deal!
IMHO
Excellent! I believe this will be the route we’re heading to. Companies do win patent cases. A court victory validates VPLM’s patents and enhances any chance of an acquisition and increases the value!!
I believe this is a private company, so we can’t see how a PPS would react to a trial victory.
IMHO
Let's hope getting on the judges calendar begins to help the share price.
If you look at the judges calendar the pre trial conference for Verizon and T-Mobile are finally showing up on the courts website.
As the trial grows closer there will be investors willing to invest some risk capital betting on a VOIP win.
Let's see if there is a run like last year. I am hopeful
Amazon loses patent fight in Illinois with tech company Kove https://www.reuters.com/legal/amazon-owes-525-mln-cloud-storage-patent-fight-us-jury-says-2024-04-11/
Good points. Talk about loose lips, telling his shareholders not to sell, while his wife and insiders continue to do so. Yikes! I guess this explains why Emil shouldn’t be talking to shareholders, huh? Doesn't take a brain surgeon to comprehend this. Not a very good situation to be in, if VPLM doesn’t monetize. WOW
IMHO
This whole lie/farce began immediately after the company stated the worldwide nodal testing had been done. And of course, the results have always been kept a secret. Can you guess why? It's obvious why...
And where's that evidence I called for that the USPTO asked Vplm to provide a working model of the patented technology? Of course no source code was provided.
Why does Vplm keep quietly settling cases with nothing for shareholders?
I told you long ago that Vplm is only faking about wanting to go to full trials. That's just part of the front and that's why it never happens. They simply want and need to keep the status quo going as they continue to earn millions on share selling for themselves (emu and wife) and for the other bod, helpers, advisors, supporters, the cabal, as it were). They know trials will not go in their favor. They know 42,000 ipr "wins" means nothing legally.
The blue light special sales they continuously have, along with fully signed on buyers and all the shares they obtain for 1/2 cent and sell for triple, on a daily basis, is like a perpetual motion machine. They have had it for years and years and are not about to give it up. Tells you what you need to know about the flippin SEC as well. 5 yrs ago when everyone was believing a deal was imminent, I posted that the same ol same ol would continue for an t least another 10 yrs. It has and there still is at least another 5 yrs of delays and push backs I call them monkey wrenches. They will come sure as shootin!
There was no appeal and the fines were paid by Vplm to Locksmith. It wouldn't matter if there were as I still would be correct, but there was none anyway.
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ON JUNE 16,2015
LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORP.ANNOUNCES THAT ON APRIL 30,2015 A COMPLAINT
WAS FILED AGAINST VOIP-PAL.COM.INC., OTC Pink: VPLM
CASE NO.: A-15-717491-C DEPT.NO.: I
DISTRICT COURT ,CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA
LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORP (Plaintiff)
? vs
VOIP-PAL.COM.INC , a Nevada corporation
THOMAS SAWYER, an individual
EMIL MALAK, an individual
EDWIN CANDY, an individual
COLIN TUCKER , an individual
DENNIS CHANG, an individual
DOES I through X, inclusive
and ROE ENTITIES XI through M, inclusive
? Defendants
LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORP. FILED PLAINTIFF'S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS'S MOTION TO DISMISS and MOTION TO AMEND COMPLAINT
LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORP. (Debt Capital,Corporate Finance,Private Placement and Debt Financing for Public Companies-)
COMPLAINT FOR:
?1) Breach of Contract
2) Fraud/ Misrepresentation
?3) Securities Fraud
?4) Breach of Fiduciary Duty
5) Breach of the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and fair Dealing
?6) Fraudulent Misrepresentation
Arbitration Exemption Requested:
Amount in Controversy Exceeds
$50,000.00
?
?2.VOIP-Pal.ComWAS SERVED AT THE OFFICE OF THE RESIDENT AGENT ON MAY 21,2015
1.????EMIL Malak SERVED MAY 4, 2015
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LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORPORATION, INC., et al. vs. VOIP-PAL.COMq, INC., et al. CASE NO.: A-15-717491-C DEPT. NO.: 25
having heard and considered the testimony, evidence, proof and arguments offered by the respective 4 parties and the cause then having been submitted to the Jury for decision, the Jury being fully advised 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18
in the premises; and having duly rendered its verdict, in favor of the above-named Plaintiff Locksmith Financial Corporation, and against the Defendants Emil Malak, Dennis Chang, Thomas Sawyer, Colin Tucker, Edwin Candy, and Mike Waggett on the cause of action of breach of fiduciary duty; and having rendered its verdict in favor of above-named Third-Party Counterclaimant TK Investment, Ltd. and against the Defendant VOIP-Pal.com, Inc. on the claim of unjust enrichment; and having awarded Defendants nothing by way of their counterclaims and third-party claims. NOW, THEREFORE, the Court being fully advised in the premises; IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, That Judgment be entered in favor of
Plaintiff Locksmith ·Financial Corporation and against Defendants Emil Malak, Dennis Chang, Thomas Sawyer, Colin Tucker, Edwin Candy, and Mike Waggett, on the claim of Breach of Fiduciary
Duty, in the amount of $355,000.00, plus pre-judgment interest from May 21, 2015 in the amount of
$91 .306.17 (calculation attached as "Exhibit 1").
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, That Judgment is entered in favor the
19 Third-Party Plaintiff TK Investment, Ltd. and against Defendant VOIP-Pal.com, Inc., on the claim of
20 Unjust Enrichment, 1n the amount of $84,000.00, plus pre-judgment interest from January 29, 2019 in 21 the amount of $3,456.53 (calculation attached as "Exhibit 1"). 22 I I I
23 Ill 24 Ill 25 I I I 26 I I I 27 I I I 28
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LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORPORATION, INC., et al. vs. VOIP-PAL.COM, INC., et al. CASE NO.: A-15-717491-C DEPT. NO.: 25
2 3
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, That judgment is entered in favor of 4 Counterdefendants and Third-Party Defendants, against Counterclaimant and Third-Party Defendant, 5 respectively. 6 7 8 9 10 Submitted by:
d3d DATED this day of
11 LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL E. SMITH, ESQ., P.C. :~~~~
14 Randall Tindall (6522)
1515 E. Tropicana Ave., Ste 530 15 LasVegas,Nevada 89119
16 Attorneys for Plaintiffs, Third-Party Defendants
and Third-Party Plaintiff
17 Approved as to form and content by:
18 19 20 21 Kurt R. Bonds (6228)
OR& SANDERS
22 Adam R. Knecht (13166)
6605 Grand Montecito Pkwy 23 Las Vegas, Nevada 89149
24 MALEK MOSS PLLC
25 Kevin N. Malek (pro hac vice)
340 Madison Avenue, FL 19 26 New York, New York 10173
27 Attorneys for Defendant, Counterclaimants and Third-Party Claimants
28
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4 5 6
7 8
9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
EXHIBIT 1
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24 25 26 27 28
5
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Period Beginning:
05/2112015 1 07/0112015 01/0112016 07/0112016 01/0112017 07/01/2017 01/01/2018 07/01/2018 I 01/01/2019 07/01120 19j
INTEREST CALCUALTION
Prime
Judgment Interest
Interest
Rate ( 0/o) Rate (Prime + 2°/o)
3.25 5.25 3.25
5.25 3.50 5.50 3.50 5.50 3.75 5.75 4.25 6.25 4.50 6.50 5.00
7.00 5.50 7.50 5.50 7.50 TOTALS:
27 1 Calculated from date of service of summons, May 21, 2015 Calculated from date Counterclaim was filed, January 29, 2019 Calculated through Aug. 16, 2019 date ofjury verdict
28
6
$ Interest on $355,000.00
4,594.54 9,318.75 9,762.50 9,762.50 10,206.25 11,093.75 11,537.50 12,425.00 13,312.50 3,428.42 91,306.17
$ Interest on $84,000.00
2,645.302
811.23 3,456.53
That is a lie. It was posted. It is #129317
"having duly rendered its verdict, in favor of the above-named Plaintiff Locksmith Financial Corporation, and against the Defendants Emil Malak, Dennis Chang, Thomas Sawyer, Colin Tucker, Edwin Candy, and Mike Waggett on the cause of action of breach of fiduciary duty; and having rendered its verdict in favor of above-named Third-Party Counterclaimant TK Investment, Ltd. and against the Defendant VOIP-Pal.com, Inc. on the claim of unjust enrichment; and having awarded Defendants nothing by way of their counterclaims and third-party claims. NOW, THEREFORE, the Court being fully advised in the premises; IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, That Judgment be entered in favor of
Plaintiff Locksmith ·Financial Corporation and against Defendants Emil Malak, Dennis Chang, Thomas Sawyer, Colin Tucker, Edwin Candy, and Mike Waggett, on the claim of Breach of Fiduciary Duty"
$.01394 NEVER underestimate the SUPIDITY of people; I don’t, but it is frustrating indeed! Yup, another negative post!
If I was frustrated/worried/concerned(WHICH I AM NOT) about the insider selling, I WOULD NEVER BE ON HERE WHINING ABOUT IT! What the F do you think you are accomplishing????????? WHAT? You "feel" better? UNBELIEVABLE! Again, it does not bother me in the least!
So, on and on and on it goes on: "I'm in"(if there is a lawsuit)/"This is a scam and I'm out when able"... One prolific poster going on about it, when I last spoke to him about 7 months ago, didn't know fuel prices had gone up over the past few years(just showing the awareness and wit)...
Where was everyone when Emil gave back the $400k? How about the millions upon millions of shares? EMIL DIDN'T SELLOUT SHAREHOLDERS TO Gil Amelio @ $.17/share... HELLLOOOOOOW! And, Emil can speak to ever he damn well pleases to.....WHAT INCENTIVE DOES EMIL HAVE TO GIVE OUT INSIDE INFO AND RISK EVERYTHING? Bad optics, yeah RIGHT!
Insider selling and dilution, YET WE ARE NOT MAKING NEW LOWS!!!!!!!!! To those whining, pull your head OUT AND THINK! REMEMBER AND TAKE CAUTION, THIS IS COMING FROM A GUY WILLINGLY LIVING IN HIS CAR UNTIL WE ARE DONE!
No idea what is going on, but society is in real peril...soy/the water/the blunt? I don't know!
Good morning, Bulls! Just a little more patience and we’ll get there!!
Nothing posted because he is a liar!
Nothing has posted …..
I'm in this for the long haul. But if there is a class action lawsuit against the insiders, for illegal trading, please let me know, I'm in!
"Vplm will have it’s day!!"
Funny thing it looks like all those both current and new BOD members may be guilty of repeating this same illegal acts that got VPLM in trouble before!
Unjust enrichment is obvious as well as breaching their fiduciary trust may be like a deja’vu ,never know for sure if it isn’t in front of a judge again like maybe an appeal???
This is from an old friend who may not agree with this point of view but in our groups thought should be.
The opinion of our group only.
Nah nahh don’t make it look like you’ve won. LMFAO what happened on the appeal??? You’re ending it cuz you know you can’t win!!! LOLLLL
Haha I think you accidentally left it in nefertities tomb lol
It appears to have posted this time. I won't be engaging with you anymore as you have shown yourself to be too much of a loose cannon and you are beginning to sound dangerous to yourself if not others so I'd rather see you have a chance to cool down. If I knew you were that level of whacked, I never would have followed thru with you. I hope you don't go over the edge with that case now in hand but most likely you'll deem it counterfeit or some similar attempt to save face.
You have yourself a good night now. Whew
And what happened on the appeal??? FOOL!!
I most certainly did. I just checked the removed posts and it's not there but so far I can't find it where I posted it. I saw it look like it posted but occasionally they don't go thru. I've had that happen before. I only have a couple posts left for today so I'll just repost it and try to figure out where the other post went. I had made some comments, then drew a line and posted the entire case below the line but now I can find it. So hopefully it will post this time, fool.
________________________________________
ON JUNE 16,2015
LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORP.ANNOUNCES THAT ON APRIL 30,2015 A COMPLAINT
WAS FILED AGAINST VOIP-PAL.COM.INC., OTC Pink: VPLM
CASE NO.: A-15-717491-C DEPT.NO.: I
DISTRICT COURT ,CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA
LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORP (Plaintiff)
? vs
VOIP-PAL.COM.INC , a Nevada corporation
THOMAS SAWYER, an individual
EMIL MALAK, an individual
EDWIN CANDY, an individual
COLIN TUCKER , an individual
DENNIS CHANG, an individual
DOES I through X, inclusive
and ROE ENTITIES XI through M, inclusive
? Defendants
LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORP. FILED PLAINTIFF'S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS'S MOTION TO DISMISS and MOTION TO AMEND COMPLAINT
LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORP. (Debt Capital,Corporate Finance,Private Placement and Debt Financing for Public Companies-)
COMPLAINT FOR:
?1) Breach of Contract
2) Fraud/ Misrepresentation
?3) Securities Fraud
?4) Breach of Fiduciary Duty
5) Breach of the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and fair Dealing
?6) Fraudulent Misrepresentation
Arbitration Exemption Requested:
Amount in Controversy Exceeds
$50,000.00
?
?2.VOIP-Pal.ComWAS SERVED AT THE OFFICE OF THE RESIDENT AGENT ON MAY 21,2015
1.????EMIL Malak SERVED MAY 4, 2015
....................................................
LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORPORATION, INC., et al. vs. VOIP-PAL.COMq, INC., et al. CASE NO.: A-15-717491-C DEPT. NO.: 25
having heard and considered the testimony, evidence, proof and arguments offered by the respective 4 parties and the cause then having been submitted to the Jury for decision, the Jury being fully advised 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18
in the premises; and having duly rendered its verdict, in favor of the above-named Plaintiff Locksmith Financial Corporation, and against the Defendants Emil Malak, Dennis Chang, Thomas Sawyer, Colin Tucker, Edwin Candy, and Mike Waggett on the cause of action of breach of fiduciary duty; and having rendered its verdict in favor of above-named Third-Party Counterclaimant TK Investment, Ltd. and against the Defendant VOIP-Pal.com, Inc. on the claim of unjust enrichment; and having awarded Defendants nothing by way of their counterclaims and third-party claims. NOW, THEREFORE, the Court being fully advised in the premises; IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, That Judgment be entered in favor of
Plaintiff Locksmith ·Financial Corporation and against Defendants Emil Malak, Dennis Chang, Thomas Sawyer, Colin Tucker, Edwin Candy, and Mike Waggett, on the claim of Breach of Fiduciary
Duty, in the amount of $355,000.00, plus pre-judgment interest from May 21, 2015 in the amount of
$91 .306.17 (calculation attached as "Exhibit 1").
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, That Judgment is entered in favor the
19 Third-Party Plaintiff TK Investment, Ltd. and against Defendant VOIP-Pal.com, Inc., on the claim of
20 Unjust Enrichment, 1n the amount of $84,000.00, plus pre-judgment interest from January 29, 2019 in 21 the amount of $3,456.53 (calculation attached as "Exhibit 1"). 22 I I I
23 Ill 24 Ill 25 I I I 26 I I I 27 I I I 28
3
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LOCKSMITH FINANCIAL CORPORATION, INC., et al. vs. VOIP-PAL.COM, INC., et al. CASE NO.: A-15-717491-C DEPT. NO.: 25
2 3
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED, That judgment is entered in favor of 4 Counterdefendants and Third-Party Defendants, against Counterclaimant and Third-Party Defendant, 5 respectively. 6 7 8 9 10 Submitted by:
d3d DATED this day of
11 LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL E. SMITH, ESQ., P.C. :~~~~
14 Randall Tindall (6522)
1515 E. Tropicana Ave., Ste 530 15 LasVegas,Nevada 89119
16 Attorneys for Plaintiffs, Third-Party Defendants
and Third-Party Plaintiff
17 Approved as to form and content by:
18 19 20 21 Kurt R. Bonds (6228)
OR& SANDERS
22 Adam R. Knecht (13166)
6605 Grand Montecito Pkwy 23 Las Vegas, Nevada 89149
24 MALEK MOSS PLLC
25 Kevin N. Malek (pro hac vice)
340 Madison Avenue, FL 19 26 New York, New York 10173
27 Attorneys for Defendant, Counterclaimants and Third-Party Claimants
28
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2 , _)
4 5 6
7 8
9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
EXHIBIT 1
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24 25 26 27 28
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Period Beginning:
05/2112015 1 07/0112015 01/0112016 07/0112016 01/0112017 07/01/2017 01/01/2018 07/01/2018 I 01/01/2019 07/01120 19j
INTEREST CALCUALTION
Prime
Judgment Interest
Interest
Rate ( 0/o) Rate (Prime + 2°/o)
3.25 5.25 3.25
5.25 3.50 5.50 3.50 5.50 3.75 5.75 4.25 6.25 4.50 6.50 5.00
7.00 5.50 7.50 5.50 7.50 TOTALS:
27 1 Calculated from date of service of summons, May 21, 2015 Calculated from date Counterclaim was filed, January 29, 2019 Calculated through Aug. 16, 2019 date ofjury verdict
28
6
$ Interest on $355,000.00
4,594.54 9,318.75 9,762.50 9,762.50 10,206.25 11,093.75 11,537.50 12,425.00 13,312.50 3,428.42 91,306.17
$ Interest on $84,000.00
2,645.302
811.23 3,456.53
I posted the case about 15 to 20 minutes ago but I just looked for it and don't see it so I have to try to find out where it went.
Wow, you really ARE a child aren't you. I'll have to alert ihub to check you age for posting. I knew you were an immature individual but I didn't know HOW immature. You're so veins sticking out of your neck you can't even see or read the case I gave you that you asked for. You should honestly take a chill pill before you have a stroke
Hahahaha...... is THAT right?
Omg, I'm getting tears in my ears from laughing so hard while lying down bowled over.
Where is the case??? I’m waiting but you seem to keep avoiding answering my question!!!!
…..
And why does he, Ladies and Gentlemen?
BECAUSE HE HAS NOTHING LMAOOOOOOO
AGAIN PAY NO MIND TO NYT-WIT! PSA: I CAUGHT HIM IN A LIE!!! PIN THIS!
STOP B*LLS**TTING US!!! WHERE IS THE CASE AND JURISDICTION???? THIS SHOW YOU DONT DO ANY DD BECAUSE I KNOW NO SUCH CASE EXISTS!
Yeah, you sure called me out didn't you?
Oh and by the way, "catching someone with their hand in the cookie jar" happens to mean someone who is caught stealing something and NOT someone allegedly caught in a fallacy, which you have yet to do in this life
More laffs that you're so close minded you can't even imagine that someone might be busy with something other than this msg board. You are truly amusing!
STILL WAITING… TRY NOT TO FABRICATE ANY DOCUMENTS. Jesus this is just pathetic lmaooooo
OH PLEASE YOU WONT FIND ANYTHING! QUIT WHINING! YOU WONT BE PAID BASHING THIS STOCK FOR LONG LOL
Oh, ok, now I see what you're blathering about. Well the fact that you're asking such an ignorant question shows and proves to me that you don't know or care to do DD thus you embarrass yourself here by showing you have no clue what you're talking about. Give me a minute to find it. It's so fun to watch ppl dig there own hole...... Lolol
LIKE I SAID BEFORE NYT-WIT RUDELY INTERRUPTED: HOLD FAST, BULLS!!! GO $VPLM
YOU WHINE LIKE A LITTLE FRIGGIN GIRL IN HEAT YOU P*SSY. ITS TIME YOU STFU. BYE BYE BASHER CHECKS!!
Not surprising that the emu and the whole rest of the bod were found guilty of UNJUST PERSONAL ENRICHMENT AND BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY BY A JURY OF THEIR PEERS!
The case where this SUPPOSEDLY happened lol. You’re a liar!
Case where WHAT happened? I'll be happy to give you any case I've posted about.
What are you, six? seven?
What case are you referring to? Your all mixed up again. There is no mention of any case in the post you replied to. As well, your post are ALL quite pedestrian and sophmoric. Childish. While your at it, quote the lie(s)
WOW LOOKS LIKE I CALLED YOU OUT ON YOUR BS SINCE YOU WONT RESPOND
GIVE ME THE CASE WHERE THIS HAPPENED!!! DONT AVOID MY QUESTIONS YOU BASHING B*STARD!
HOLD FAST BULLS!!! VPLM IS GONNA TAKE OFF SO IGNORE THE NAYSAYERS AND PAID BASHERS!!!
Would that be days/weeks/months/years or another decade?
HAHAHAHA see???? PAID BASHER!! HE CANT GIVE ME THE EXACT CASE WHERE THAT HAPPENED. YOU SIR ARE AN IDIOT LMAO
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Estimated Market Cap $27,166,417 As of November 05, 2021
Authorized Shares 3,000,000,000 As of October 18, 2021
Outstanding Shares 1,951,330,092 As of Feburary 28, 2019
Outstanding Shares 1,731,447,863 As of October 18, 2021
(Shares outstanding dropped by 219mm++)******
Float 831,342,791 As of September 23, 2021
Revenues: $0 to date.
Voip-Pal's intellectual property value is derived from ten (10) issued USPTO patents including five parent patents, one of which is foundational and the others which build upon the former.
The five (5) core patents are:
1.) Routing, Billing & Rating ("RBR");
2.) Lawful Intercept;
3.) Enhanced E-911;
4.) Mobile Gateway; and
5.) Uninterrupted Transmission
The Voip-Pal inventions described in the ten-patent portfolio provide the means to integrate VoIP services with any of the Telco systems to create a seamless service using either legacy telephone numbers of IP addresses, and enhance the performance and value of VoIP implementations worldwide.
The Voip-Pal patented technology provides Universal numbering ubiquity; network value as defined by Metcalfe; the imperative of interconnect, termination, and recompense for delivery of calls by other networks; regulatory compliance in regulated markets; interconnection of VoIP networks to mobile and fixed networks; and maintenance of uninterrupted VoIP calls across fixed, mobile, and WiFi networks.
While there are several popular VoIP implementations, VoIP is utilized in many other lesser-known places and by practically every modern telephony system vendor, network supplier, and retail and wholesale carrier.
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VPLM'S CASE DISMISSED BUT WILL BE APPEALED.
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https://www.scribd.com/document/403267736/VOIP-PAL-Obviousness-Ruling
BELLEVUE, Wash., April 16, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Voip-Pal.com Inc. (“Voip-Pal”, “Company”) (OTCQB: VPLM) announced that at a meeting of the Board of Directors on April 15, 2019, the Directors of Voip-Pal unanimously rejected a formal offer from Dr. Gil Amelio and his associates to take over management of the Company. Part of the offer provided options to purchase only the stock owned by Voip-Pal’s CEO, Emil Malak. Fully exercised, the options would have paid Mr. Malak approximately $150 million for his shares of Voip-Pal stock.
Voip-Pal’s Board of Directors including CEO, Emil Malak, carefully considered the offer but unanimously voted to reject this proposal; however, the Company is open to further discussions with Dr Amelio. Voip-Pal is actively pursuing the sale of all of Voip-Pal’s shares, on behalf of the more than 4500 shareholders, not just the shares owned by Mr. Malak.
Dr. Amelio has held prominent positions with various technology companies, including serving as the CEO and Chairman of Apple Computer, (1996-1997), President, CEO and Chairman of National Semiconductor, and President of Rockwell Communication Systems. He has also served on the board of directors of several companies including Apple, (1994-1996), AT&T, (1995-2013) and Interdigital. He received a Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, and Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Amelio has been awarded 16 patents and a 17th is pending.
Renowned patent and IP expert, William Sweet is one of Dr. Amelio’s associates on this proposal. According to Dr. Gil Amelio, Mr. Sweet and his team have conducted extensive research on Voip-Pal’s patent portfolio.
Emil Malak, Voip-Pal CEO, “We have great respect for Dr. Gil Amelio and his team and we are very pleased to know they see such value in our patents or they would not have tendered this offer. We are currently focused on our legal appeal to the recent Alice 101 decision as well as finalizing our strategy to move forward in Europe. In the meantime we are working diligently to add to our patent portfolio with patent continuation applications. Patience is a virtue.”
About Voip-Pal.com Inc.
Voip-Pal.Com, Inc. (“Voip-Pal”) is a publicly traded corporation (OTCQB:VPLM) headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The Company owns a portfolio of patents relating to Voice-over-Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) technology that it is currently looking to monetize.
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“Courts should never be tasked with dealing with the complexities of patent validity because they lack the necessary technical expertise.”
I am Emil Malak, CEO of VoIP-Pal.com Inc., and a named inventor on two U.S. patents–Mobile Gateway: US 8,630,234& Electrostatic Desalinization and Water Purification: US 8,016,993. To date, our company owns 22 issued and or allowed patents, which we developed over the past 15 years. Against all odds, we have been 100% successful in defending eight Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs): four from Apple, three from AT&T, and one from Unified Patents. We are presently in litigation against Apple, Verizon, AT&T, Twitter and Amazon.
My experience with Voip-Pal has made it painfully clear that the deck has been stacked against companies who own IP being used without license by large tech companies. The America Invents Act (AIA), orchestrated by Silicon Valley, was designed to destroy the very ladder they climbed to ascend to their lofty perch, and make certain that they could not be challenged.
Owning a patent used to be the dream of every small inventor in America. For more than 200 years, the intellectual property rights of American inventors—both big and small—were protected by patent laws that encouraged innovation and risk-taking for the promise of reaping financial rewards for their inventions. That all changed in 2011 with the passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), which has since caused irreparable harm to the United States’ patent system and has stacked the deck against the little guy in favor of the Silicon Valley and other giants. Post grant reviews of issued patents existed prior to the AIA, but the AIA, through the creation of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Inter Partes Review (IPR) created a post grant review process hostile towards patent owners. The lack of oversight, appointment of judges with apparent conflicts of interest, and allowing unlimited challenges to a single patent regardless of standing are just a few of the changes that placed a heavy hand on the scales of justice weighing in favor of Silicon Valley.
At the time, members of Congress said they were enacting legislation that would strengthen and streamline patent protection law, passing it by overwhelming majorities of 71% in the House and 95% in the Senate. However, eight years after its passage, the evidence clearly shows they have crippled the patent system.
This was never about streamlining the patent system—in fact, it has had the opposite effect. Instead of going into court to adjudicate an infringement case based upon the merits of the granted claims, the process is all about stalling, obfuscating, and forcing small companies to burn through their capital fighting a system that has been paid for by Silicon Valley. The AIA provided the legal mechanism for the Silicon Valley and others to destroy small companies and inventors, drain their limited resources and drive them out of business.
Small patent owners often engage in the futile effort of attempting to license their patents. Discussions with big tech companies are mostly fruitless and usually prove to be nothing more than a delay tactic by the infringer. The inventor is then forced to turn to the courts for enforcement and sues the unlicensed user of the technology. A lawsuit by the patent owner will usually trigger the IPR process. More often than not, the infringer will succeed in revoking all or part of the asserted patent. Even if the infringer fails in their efforts to cancel the patent, they will have succeeded in stalling as much as 18 months, costing the inventor precious capital, and knocking many out of business.
Courts should never be tasked with dealing with the complexities of patent validity because they lack the necessary technical expertise. Patent validity issues such as sections 101, 102, 103, indefiniteness, and all other technical matters should be decided prior to a patent being issued by technically qualified examiners at the USPTO, not by the court. Once issued, a patent should only be challengeable at the USPTO, and only for a predetermined period, i.e. six months. The courts should only decide matters of infringement and damages.
No aspects of patent law should ever be subjective. Congress can fix the inconsistencies between the USPTO and the courts and put them on the same page by passing laws that clearly define patent validity guidelines, i.e. what is abstract. Life in the 21st century is dependent on computers. Consequently, many software-centric patents adding new inventive steps are being developed, only to be labeled abstract by the courts and invalidated. The lack of uniformity is responsible for nullifying valuable patents and strengthening the chokehold the Silicon Valley has on the necks of small inventors. Courts should only deal with infringement and damages based solely on clearly these defined guidelines.
Director Iancu has a very tough job ahead. He inherited a broken system, heavily biased against the little guy. Since taking the reins he has made positive changes and has shown his commitment to leveling the playing field for all inventors. He recently published revised 101 guidelines for his department that he hopes will lead to changes in how the Federal Circuit views eligibility under 101. To date, the courts have refused to apply the USPTO’s guidelines.
The current rigged system is killing innovation in the United States. In this time of special prosecutors, it is appropriate for one to be appointed to investigate exactly how we got here. There are many questions that need to be answered:
After spending the last 15 years dealing with patent issues, my advice to inventors and small companies is to not waste their time and money spinning their wheels in the current patent system. It takes too many years and often millions of dollars to secure a patent, only to have it taken away by a hostile IPR process. The USPTO has the most technically competent examiners in the world. These highly qualified experts in their field work diligently to issue quality patents, only to have their work erased by the PTAB and the courts. Despite their efforts, the value of the patents they carefully issue is often worth less than toilet paper. The AIA has reduced once valuable patent ownership into a fraudulent representation of what it used to signify.
While the Silicon Valley conspires to steal intellectual property and stifle innovation, supported by the PTAB and the court system, China’s Shenzhen is emerging as a technical powerhouse; with plans to install 7,000 new 5G base stations this year alone. If the Silicon Valley continues their suppression of technological innovation, they will be displaced by Shenzhen as the hi-tech leaders of the world.
If the United States is to lead the world again in patent protection and innovation, the AIA must first be repealed and replaced with a set of laws that protect innovators and offers them the opportunity to profit from their inventions. The patent issuance process should be streamlined. It currently takes many years to issue a single patent, often followed by several years and potentially millions of dollars in post-grant defense costs. Reduce the issue time to one year and allow a six-month post-issue period for any challenges, which should all be handled by technical experts at the USPTO. The USPTO can fund these changes by increasing patent filing and issue fees. It is preferable for an inventor to spend $30,000 in fees for a patent’s issue within a reasonable amount of time than to get stuck in a process that takes years for issuance followed by more years and millions of dollars to defend.
Is Silicon Valley attempting to turn us into a corporatocracy through massive political contributions and their influence over policy making? Have they become too big and too controlling? Does the AIA rise to the level of fostering antitrust and anti-competitive practices described in the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)? Did its passage by Congress and its eventual implementation violate any antitrust or anti-competitive laws? Was the AIA a collaboration between paid politicians, the Silicon Valley and the USPTO to stifle competition? Only a special prosecutor can answer these questions.
Some have made the case that the AIA has all the ingredients of antitrust. It has undoubtedly given the upper hand to the infringers and makes it nearly impossible for the small inventor to monetize their inventions and intellectual property. One thing is certain; if the AIA had been in place 40 years ago, the world would never have known Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell or Mark Zuckerberg. The tech giants of the time, IBM and Texas Instruments, would have used the PTAB to eliminate them in the same way Apple and Google do today.
It’s time to take a serious look at breaking up monopolistic corporations like Facebook, Google and Amazon. Facebook and Google, especially, control the flow of information in the United States and worldwide. They are restricting the free flow of ideas, news and opinions, and manipulate search engine and newsfeed results for their own purposes. With some obvious exceptions like child pornography, sex trafficking, drugs and harmful scams, they should not be the arbiters that decide which information people receive. They have to cease in being a political platform. Information should flow freely without going through a corporation’s biased filters.
Recently, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and Silicon Valley investor and former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, Roger McNamee, have publicly called for the breakup of Facebook. In addition to Facebook, McNamee is also calling for the breakup of Google and Amazon, which he says have all undermined democracy, violated user privacy and gained monopoly power. The transformation of the U.S. patent system over the past decade is evidence of the harm caused when companies like these are allowed to monopolize their industries. These powerful providers of information have become “governments in waiting.” Capitalism only thrives when the rules encourage innovation and competition.
I am not making accusations. I am only hoping that we can dig deep and get to the bottom of what happened that caused the radical transformation of American patent law and injured so many inventors and stakeholders. We need the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate these matters. Every day I wake up and work diligently to move Voip-Pal forward towards monetization. We are no stranger to the landmines which have been laid by the AIA, but we will keep battling until we succeed. As long as I am breathing, I will continue to fight for each of the more than 4,600 shareholders I represent. America will always be the greatest country for freedom and justice in the world.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Voip-Pal.com Inc.
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Emil Malak is the largest single shareholder of Voip-Pal.com, Inc., a publicly traded company where he serves as a Director and Chief Executive Officer. He has spent the last 16 years overseeing the development of the company’s intellectual property comprised of more than twenty telecommunications patents in the United States and several international patents in Europe, India, Canada and Indonesia. In addition to his work as Voip-Pal’s CEO, Mr. Malak has spent the last 7 years involved with a medical research team of doctors, serving as the chairman of the board of Thorne BioMed Ltd. They are currently conducting cancer research in Germany where they are committed to pursuing a possible reduction to cancer metastasis.
For more information or to contact Emil, please visit his company profile page.
www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/05/28/1851157/0/en/Voip-Pal-com-Announces-the-Patent-Trial-and-Appeal-Board-Rejected-Apple-s-Request-for-Rehearing.html
BELLEVUE, Washington, May 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Voip-Pal.com Inc. (“Voip-Pal”, “Company”) (OTCQB: VPLM) is pleased to provide an update on its current legal activities:
Recently, Voip-Pal CEO, Emil Malak authored an op-ed on the current status of the United States patent system. In his article, Mr. Malak calls for revamping the current patent system and praises the efforts of USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, who Mr. Malak believes is determined to correct the problems at the USPTO to better protect inventors and encourage innovation.
The op-ed was published on IPWatchdog.com. IPWatchdog.com has been recognized by their peers as “one of the leading sources for news, information, analysis and commentary in the patent and innovation industries”. The article can be viewed on IPWatchdog.com or at the Company’s website www.voip-pal.com
CEO, Emil Malak, stated, “We are very pleased with the PTAB’s decision to deny Apple’s request for a rehearing. For the second time in recent months three senior PTAB judges have sided with Voip-Pal. They have confirmed the two challenged patents on their merits and rejected Apple’s accusations and innuendo. Since we launched our first legal actions in 2016 our patents have been heavily challenged and we expect more challenges may come. We are very confident in the strength of our patents and we believe they will survive any challenges that may come our way based on their technical merits.”
“The current patent system favors the tech giants of Silicon Valley making it difficult for small companies to assert their patents against infringement. However, we are determined to see this through until the very end. The defendants, Apple, Verizon, AT&T, Twitter and Amazon are working together and will do whatever they can to drag this process out. We want everyone to know we are not going away. We will continue this fight until we reach a settlement, sell the Company or have our day in court. Eventually the defendants will have to deal with us and our patents will prevail. Patience is a virtue”
About Voip-Pal.com Inc.
Voip-Pal.Com, Inc. (“Voip-Pal”) is a publicly traded corporation (OTCQB: VPLM) headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The Company owns a portfolio of patents relating to Voice-over-Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) technology that it is currently looking to monetize.
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THE PTAB IS FINALLY DONE!!! VPLM 8-0 VS Unified Patents, T and BIGGEST, LONGEST CHALLENGES OF ALL...aapl! aapl LOSES!!!
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BUYOUT OFFER, EMIL WAS OFFERED $150m.
Voip-Pal’s Board of Directors Has Rejected a Formal Offer from Dr. Gil Amelio and Associates to Purchase CEO Emil Malak’s Shares and Take Over Control of the Company
VPLMs data shows they are out of cash, commonsense is VERY concerned over this. The last Q alone cost $974,427 in expenses and they have $390,025 left. Sell shares machine in full effect. They made a bunch off that initial Pump and Dump cycle and burning through it since. But now, they can't get the price over $.03 really because the weight of the OS is too high, so millions more need to be dumped EVERY single month going forward.
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FALSE CLAIMS BEING MADE IN ORDER TO LOWER VPLM PPS
ALL LAWSUITS ARE MOVING FORWARD THROUGH
APPEAL OR OTHERWISE
EUROPEAN UNION IS UP NEXT, SHORTLY
VERY SIMPLE VPLM THEME:
VPLM HAS BEEN GRANTED 26 PATENTS IN THE U.S., THE E.U., INDIA, INDONESIA, BRAZIL AND CANADA!
VPLM WILL PROSECUTE THOSE PATENTS AND HAS GONE 8-0 IN PATENT CHALLENGES AT PTAB
VPLM HAS NEVER MADE A NEW LOW UNDER EMIL MALAK, ALTHOUGH VPLM HAS MADE THREE NEW HIGHS UNDER EMIL
NO QUESTION, VPLM IS VOLATILE; VPLM IS FIGHTING SOME OF THE LARGEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD
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“Continued chaos about the patent eligibility of non-physical technological advancements imposes devastating costs on innovators and industry.” – InvestPic counsel, Bill Abrams
On May 15, SAP America, Inc. filed a respondent’s brief with the Supreme Court in InvestPic, LLC v. SAP America Inc., a case in which InvestPic’s patent claims covering systems and methods for performing statistical analyses of investment information were invalidated under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Petitioner InvestPic is asking the nation’s highest court to determine whether the “physical realm” test for patent eligibility under Section 101 that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit applied contravenes both the Patent Act and SCOTUS precedent. SAS’ brief contends in response that the mentions of “physical realm” are scant in the case record and that the present case provides a “textbook application” of Supreme Court precedent on claims involving mathematical equations.
InvestPic’s U.S. Patent No. 6349291, Method and System for Analysis, Display and Dissemination of Financial Information Using Resampled Statistical Methods claims a method that involves selecting a sample space, including an investment data sample, generating a distribution function using a re-sampled statistical method and a bias parameter that determines a degree of randomness in a resampling process, and generating a plot of the distribution function. SAP America filed a complaint for declaratory judgment of invalidity of the ‘291 patent in the Northern District of Texas in 2016 and, in 2017, the district court declared the challenged claims invalid under Section 101 on a motion for judgment on the pleadings.
The Federal Circuit’s decision on appeal was first issued in May 2018, before the opinion was modified that August. In affirming the lower court’s invalidity findings, the CAFC panel of Circuit Judges Alan Lourie, Kathleen O’Malley and Richard Taranto noted that the appellate court may assume that claimed techniques are “groundbreaking, innovative, or even brilliant” yet may still be determined to be patent-ineligible subject matter:
“No matter how much of an advance in the finance field the claims recite, the advance lies entirely in the realm of abstract ideas, with no plausibly alleged innovation in the non-abstract application realm.”
The Federal Circuit’s discussion of the non-physical aspects of InvestPic’s claimed invention mainly take place in the context of discussing other cases decided by the appellate court in which physical aspects of the claimed invention led to determinations that the invention was patent-eligible. In 2016’s McRO Inc. v. Bandai Namco Games America Inc., the challenged claims were directed to the display of lip synchronization and facial expressions of animated characters, which the court determined was physical, unlike InvestPic’s invention, which claimed no improved display mechanism. Likewise, in 2017’s Thales Visionix Inc. v. United States, the claimed improvement was implemented in a physical tracking system. By contrast, the Federal Circuit held that InvestPic’s improvement in the selection and mathematical analysis of information followed by display of the results wasn’t an improvement in the physical realm despite the fact that some claims required databases or processors.
InvestPic’s petition contends that the Federal Circuit’s “physical realm” requirement ignores the primacy of preemption avoidance in Section 101 jurisprudence stemming from Supreme Court case law. In 19th Century cases such as Le Roy v. Tatham (1852) and O’Reilly v. Morse (1853), the Supreme Court struck down patent claims that were overbroad in a way that would preempt future innovation. However, in 1981’s Diamond v. Diehr, the Court upheld claims involving a mathematical equation because only a specific application of the equation was claimed. The Federal Circuit’s “physical realm” requirement is detached from Section 101 preemption jurisprudence, InvestPic argues, despite the fact that preemption concerns are at the center of the Alice patent eligibility test in which the “physical realm” requirement was applied.
InvestPic also contends that the Federal Circuit’s “physical realm” requirement exists in conflict with Congressional allowance of patents on novel processes that are executed by computers. Section 101 of the U.S. patent law allows for the issue of a patent for a “new and useful process” and “process” as defined by 35 U.S.C. § 100(b) includes “a new use of a known process,” such as the ‘291 patent’s use of the known process of resampling in the new application for investment portfolio analysis. Changes to U.S. patent law under the 2011 America Invents Act didn’t amend the definition of “process” in Section 100 and the patent-eligibility of inventions that didn’t exist in the physical realm led to the proliferation of calculator patents in the 1970s and digital patents in the 1990s, the latter period including the “PageRank” algorithm granted to Google.
The application of Section 101 jurisprudence has led to major patent-eligibility concerns in valuable and rapidly growing tech sectors. InvestPic cites to data published in July 2016 by IPWatchdog Founder Gene Quinn, which showed extremely low allowance rates in certain tech sectors post-Alice, including a 1.3 percent allowance rate in Art Unit 3689, which covers financial data processing patent applications. InvestPic also cites an October 2018 guest post on PatentlyO penned by Santa Clara University Law School Professor Colleen Chien which showed that art units affected by Alice saw a rise in office actions that rejected applications on Section 101 grounds, from 25% of all rejections pre-Alice up to 75% after the Alice decision.
The lack of predictability in patent-eligibility matters has led the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to release revised guidance on Section 101 eligibility this January. InvestPic cites this updated guidance as a result of the “crisis for invention posed by the lower courts’ [Section] 101 morass.” Petitioners also argue that the present case presents an ideal vehicle to restore consistency of the application of Section 101. Unlike the claims in Alice, the invention covered by the ‘291 patent claims is not a trivial coding project and the patent survived Section 102 anticipation and Section 103 obviousness challenges in reexamination proceedings at the USPTO, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and an appeal of those proceedings to the Federal Circuit, says InvestPic. Further, the ‘291 patent has been cited by more than 50 other issued patents, proving both the narrowness and non-preemptive nature of the patent claims.
In SAP America’s response brief, filed May 15, it argues that InvestPic overstates the application of the “physical realm” requirement, as the phrase only appears twice in the Federal Circuit’s decision. A “cursory look at the patent claims” defeats the physical realm argument, as they require physical elements such as databases and processors, which the Federal Circuit held to be generic computing components. SAP also argues that the decision is consistent with 80 years of Supreme Court precedent on the patent-ineligibility of mathematical expressions or formulas in cases such as Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. v. Radio Corp. of America (1939), Gottschalk v. Benson(1972) and Parker v. Flook (1978).
Because InvestPic’s patent claims elements in the physical realm, SAP argues that the present case isn’t a suitable vehicle for deciding the issue of the Federal Circuit’s test. SAP also cites Federal Circuit decisions following InvestPic in which software patent claims have been upheld as eligible under Section 101, thus contradicting the notion that the appellate court has adopted such a test; these decisions include Ancora Technologies, Inc. v. HTC America, Inc. and Data Engine Technologies LLC v. Google LLC (both 2018).
SAP further pushes back against InvestPic’s contention that an intra-circuit split on the application of Aliceexists. InvestPic had cited cases such as DDR Holdings, LLC v. Hotels.com, L.P.(2014) and Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc. (2015) to argue that some Federal Circuit panels held that the absence of preemption conferred patent-eligibility, while others held that preemption was only relevant as a factor. “To be sure, some of these decisions discuss preemption in greater depth,” SAP argues, but none of the cases expressly held what InvestPic contended. While InvestPic’s claims survived Section 102 and Section 103 challenges in other proceedings, SAP notes that Section 101 statutory subject matter is a different matter than Section 102 novelty, noting that the Supreme Court’s decision in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. (2012) expressly refused patent-eligibility inquiries outside of Section 101.
Bill Abrams of Foster Pepper PLLC’s Intellectual Property Group and Counsel of Record for InvestPic in its appeal to the Supreme Court, sent the following comments to IPWatchdog:
“InvestPic v. SAP Americainvolves perhaps the most important issue in patent law today—what it means for an idea to be ‘abstract.’ Are software and other computer-implemented inventions ‘abstract’ and, therefore, ineligible for patenting? The answer dramatically impacts patent law and innovation across our modern, digital economy….
“Despite the Supreme Court’s preemption test to determine if an invention is an ineligible abstract idea, the Federal Circuit, in InvestPic and other cases, evaluated the physicality or tangibility of inventive ideas, rather than if the claimed invention would preempt basic fields of technology. This competing understanding of what constitutes an ‘abstract idea’ has resulted in irreconcilable decisions by different Federal Circuit panels. The ensuing uncertainty has made it nearly impossible to predict what inventions are eligible for patent protection. Such uncertainty damages the predictability of the incentive structure that is so central to the United States’ innovation landscape.
“This is why 18 amici, in seven separate briefs, have urged the Supreme Court to grant certiorari and hear this case. The amici recognize the “physical realm” test’s potential to gut patent protection in some of the highest-growth sectors of our economy….
“Continued chaos about the patent-eligibility of non-physical technological advancements imposes devastating costs on innovators and industry. Review and intervention by the Supreme Court would bring much-needed clarity and stability to this vital question of law affecting digital innovations at the heart of our modern economy.”
In the meantime, the coming weekshould provide an indication of whether or not Congress will get to the matter first.
Steve Brachmann is a freelance journalist located in Buffalo, New York. He has worked professionally as a freelancer for more than a decade. He writes about technology and innovation. His work has been published by The Buffalo News, The Hamburg Sun, USAToday.com, Chron.com, Motley Fool and OpenLettersMonthly.com. Steve also provides website copy and documents for various business clients and is available for research projects and freelance work.
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