Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
Well another month gone by and still no straight forward news from the company. Many have been enthused that some positive news may be imminent and it is not just Deerballs. Where does this enthusiasm come from? Is it totally speculation or has something leaked? Well I know and I am not happy about it. I will not out the source or how I know but know this is not speculation but fact. If anyone knew what I do you too would be appalled. Why can't the company be honest and forthcoming about where we are in the process. The last legal update was on July 11,2023 almost nine months ago, totally unacceptable that shareholders are treated in this manner IMO. I have really tried not to post my feelings here but right now I am really pissed. Was hoping for sooner but now expecting later. T-Mobile trial November, Huawai next May,no word on Amazon...are you kidding me!!! the prophet
Funny how the fishy guy gets flak for using all caps but you won't. Funny how that works...
What's funny is that they will admonish the fishy man for using caps but not you. Hahaha funny how that works...
If you're gonna pose the fact and the question, why not posit an answer at least your opinion as to why. I seem to remember from waay back that there were other, more positive benefits to those incorporating in Nevada. I just can't remember what they are....something to do with taxes perhaps?
Pardon me for saying the spread was coming back. It looked that way for like 1 day, but now back to near flatline. Shame on this mess.
LOOKS LIKE THE END OF VPLM IS NEAR.ITS EVEN RISKY FOR CHICKEN TRIO.
You can be certain that based on the company incorporating in Nevada, they can not share any awards on damages with shareholders until they pay off all their debt. Now, why in the world did they get incorporated in a State with such laws?
AS ALWAYS, I ENCOURAGE SHAREHOLDERS TO FOLLOW THE CASE RECORD, FILED DOCUMENTS AND LEGAL PROCESS TO GET THE BEST PICTURE OF WHERE THINGS STAND AND WHERE THINGS MIGHT LOGICALLY LEAD TO. COULD SOMETHING HAPPEN PRIOR TO TRIAL? OF COURSE! WILL SOMETHING HAPPEN PRIOR TO TRIAL? NO ONE KNOWS! CAN TRIAL DATES BE CHANGED? YES THEY CAN! WILL THEY CHANGE? WHO KNOWS!
THE MAIN TAKEAWAY IS NO ONE CAN BE CERTAIN WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. JUST FOLLOW THE COURT RECORD FOR THE BEST INDICATION OF WHAT TO EXPECT.
Get back to me when they get financial judgements that are in-line with the "billions and billions of ongoing" infringements that the CEO has spoken about. If not then it's a complete failure and confirmation that the patents aren't worth near as claimed.
I'm quite certain of what will happen. There will never be a sale, settlement (a real one) nor a win for this share selling, madoff would've been proud, farce. And my best guess is the bs and lack of shareholder win will continue for about 5 more years (I predicted 10, five yrs ago).
Many if not all the signs point to bogus worthless patents (well, by definition, they have proven to be worthless since created about 15 yrs ago or more)
I wish and hope I am wrong....for my own sake and that of many others apart from the abusive name callers, and would he overjoyed if it turned out I was, but obvious is obvious and human nature is human nature. And again I ask, if you had the money, would you buy or have bought the patent suite?
KEEP FOCUSED ON WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT...
- Verizon pre-trial conference set for 7/9/2024, jury selection set for 8/19/2024, Trial set for 8/19/2024
- T-Mobile trial date set for 11/4/2024
- Huawei pre-trial conference set for 5/19/2025, mediation deadline set for 2/20/2025, trial date set for 5/27/2025
AS ALWAYS, I ENCOURAGE SHAREHOLDERS TO FOLLOW THE CASE RECORD, FILED DOCUMENTS AND LEGAL PROCESS TO GET THE BEST PICTURE OF WHERE THINGS STAND AND WHERE THINGS MIGHT LOGICALLY LEAD TO. COULD SOMETHING HAPPEN PRIOR TO TRIAL? OF COURSE! WILL SOMETHING HAPPEN PRIOR TO TRIAL? NO ONE KNOWS! CAN TRIAL DATES BE CHANGED? YES THEY CAN! WILL THEY CHANGE? WHO KNOWS!
THE MAIN TAKEAWAY IS NO ONE CAN BE CERTAIN WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. JUST FOLLOW THE COURT RECORD FOR THE BEST INDICATION OF WHAT TO EXPECT.
Nice to see the real time chart back after about a week long hiatus..
"The truth is these board mean nothing and 90% of what is written here is meaningless. The only thing that is important is Greenback and others that post trial information"
That's your opinion and it's wrong, however if it was true then you should apply it to yourself. And obviously, you read all the "meaningless" posts, otherwise you wouldn't know to call them meaningless. Disingenuous. And you say all this stuff which is somewhat all over the road (this is good, this is bad, this is maybe, etc etc) and alot of it seems to want to point to an implied conclusion but you never do draw any conclusions from what you say about the company. Mostly, you point to all these negative things by the company which I agree about but then you fail to nail down what the implications point to.
If the company is for real and the patent what they have been cracked up to be, then the selling and lack of communication points to scam, period. If it's a self serving scam then what the point of talking about trials and dates or anything positive. You're all over the road and don't know where you're going. You wanna bitch about the selling but don't even begin to surmise why they do so.
The obvious common sense look, is if the patents were so fundimental to the operation and continuance of voip and worth countless billions, then 1) Vplm would have kept its promise to fold the tech into their own alleged voip service provider platform and become the king of the hill in that regard and maybe even a monopoly that would've eventually had to be broken up......OR 2) been bought up by one of the big dogs who not only would reap the gargantuan benefits, but at the same time protected themselves from the INEVITABLE incoming bomb with their name on it for infringement damages. That is so obvious Helen Keller could see it, hear it and say it, along with the pinball wizard. It's obvious enough that myself and several others have been able to predict NOTHING would happen here, monetarily, and do so for years and years and be right. The rest of what goes on here that doesn't see that is pretty much the same thing that goes on about about the bible by beliebers. (nothing to do with religion, just another example about a book of claims).
So why don't you either defend Vplm or admit its a fraud? Playing both ends against the middle is confusing, wishy washy and convenient.
I DO NOT SEE ANYTHING HAPPENING THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR.THE STOCK IS ON A SELLING MODE DAILY.THE OFFERS GETTING BIGGER AND BIGGER.AND ARE COMING LOWER AND LOWER UNTIL THEY FIND SUCKERS.
You know why I post the information on Barbara's selling.
1) Because everyone should know Barbara/Emil, Chang, Williams and now Clifton are showing no faith in the stock. Their selling will play no part in any settlement but who in their right mind would sell at $0.015 a share when a settlement or positive outcome of a trial will allow the person to sell at $.10, $.20 or more. The answer is no one. Barbara has sold 180M shares over the last several years. Emil and Barb has netter over $4 million for those shares. If they had not sold and waited for a settlement or trial and sold for $.25 a share they would have received $45 million vs the $4 million they received. Now that may be not as big a deal because Emil gets 40% of any settlement So a settlement that results in investors getting $.25 a share would net Emil $100s of millions. But it is not a good look.
And Chang selling is even worse. They say he is broke which sounds like a big lie to me. The man has sold $100s of thousands worth of stock over the last several years. If he believed in a good result he would hold the shares and sell for multi millions once the whales settled or a trial ended in a favorable outcome. If the trial takes place in the fall and the result is positive you will see a share price well north of $.10 a share even if it takes a year or 2 to receive the money. Chang would be out of debt forever. So his selling shows no faith at all. Now we have others as well including Williams and Clifton just filed to sell. However, Clifton has not sold yet.
My one hope is Clifton filed hoping for some sort of event to finalize that would allow him to sell at a much higher price. If that was the reason for the filing it is a good sign but I would have expected him to wait until just days prior to the event to file. But he filed in mid Feb and we were wearing here that some sort of event could happen by the end of the month. unfortunately, like everything else the rumors never come true. Hopefully, whatever was going to happen is true and happens in April or may.
2) The other reason is because I think you are a childish rude person. I have lost money in many stocks through the years. What I don't like is a person calling up to yell at another person for something they post. Plus blocking their number so I don't know who is calling. Like VPLM that is very deceitful. The truth is these board mean nothing and 90% of what is written here is meaningless. The only thing that is important is Greenback and others that post trial information.
Now I will finish on a good note. There are several trial dates set for the second half of 24. The company has not issued a PR on any of these. However, if they are accurate and the dates are not moved the share price will likely begin to rise into the trial date. If Barbara stopped selling and the date grew near the share price would increase a lot faster. We are in April soon and there are trials in August. That is only 5 months away. What are the chances that trial date remains in Aug? I truly believe that if they don't move the date even with insider selling the share price is likely to move to $.04 - $.05 in the months leading up to the trial. We will see if the company announces the trial dates. If VPLM doesn't issue a PR on the Aug trial within the next couple months there is a lot smaller chance that it will actually take place. These trials are huge events for the company it is material to the share price. SEC rules say that those dates much be PRed to the investors. Anything that has a material impact to the share price is to be made public.
But as long as insiders continue to sell there is every reason in the world to feel they are not telling investors the truth about the cases in court now. I hope at some point the team stops selling shares.
I wish you, me and everyone else good luck with this companies future. A positive result gets you out of your car, allows me to finally retire and helps others I know have financial security. No one wants a positive result more than me. I hope it happens this year.
Yeah good luck with that. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were told that there was going to be some big with Amazon last fall and nothing ever happened. There's a reason why VPLM has received no financial judgements thus far. Very easy to figure out. Likely because the patents really aren't worth anywhere near the "billions and billions" that everyone has been told by the CEO!!
Repeating yourself vs lying vs pumping. No difference here in Fantasy Island, Tattoo!
3/27. VPLM VWAP=$.01576 VOLUME=980k Bid side
3/26. VPLM VWAP=$.01556 VOLUME=422k Bid side
3/25. VPLM *VWAP=$.0159* VOLUME=2mm Offer-side 4 to 1
3/22. VPLM VWAP=$.0157 VOLUME=1.81mm Bid-side 3 to 1
3/21. VPLM VWAP=$.0158 VOLUME=1.65mm Offer-side 6 to 1
3/20. VPLM VWAP=$.0156 VOLUME=1.13mm Bid-side nearly all
3/19. VPLM VWAP=$.0159 VOLUME=1.98mm Bid-side 2 to 1
3/18. VPLM VWAP=$.0158 VOLUME=1.74mm Offer-side 3 to 1
3/15. VPLM VWAP=$.0158 VOLUME=636k Bid-side 9x
3/14. VPLM VWAP=$.0159 VOLUME=831k Bid-side 6x
3/13. VPLM VWAP=$.016+ VOLUME=1.3-mm Bid-side 2x minus
Huge problems for shareholders: I've been caught repeating myself from 5+ years ago, at which time I made the same claim about Rich as very recently!!! HOW SHAMEFUL AND EMBARRASSING! I APOLOGIZE TO ALL VPLM SHAREHOLDERS FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART! Can you forgive me?
What is social media doing to us??? Ya just can't get away with anything!
Company? Lol. There is no company, as such. There is a scammer with a history, with a laptop who sits in a booth in his pizza shop in the hotbed of pennystock scams, Vancouver, who communicates online with the rest of the cronies, who are in different places in the world. None have ever been to Waco nor is it any sort of real headquarters. Just a cheap rental. There is nothing wrong with any of above as that how smart business is done today, in this case, a stock printing, stock selling, personal insider ATM, successfully executed for years and years behind the "STORY", the facade, the mirage, so craftily conceived and still in good working order for years to come until the madoff style house of cards gets blown away with all your monies, except for those who were smart enough to swing trade it to profit, as I did almost too late.
It's babs, emu and Chang in MARS ATTACKS! (we are your friends)
The only ones in the patent buying mood, with regard to the Vplm patents......
were digi-phony-ca, followed by Vplm, once digi found out they were useless in the real world. Then the genius insider ATM plan was devised as lord emu of eGipped, with all the shares he had accumulated, insiduously took over operations. The rest is 12 yr history. My prediction 5 years ago of another 10 yrs of the same ol crap Vplm dishes is now down to about 5 more yrs. Yall can do it standing on your head. Just keep repeating......emu is lord, emu is lord, emu is my shephard......and barb is da boss, barb is da boss, she maketh da big bucks, she restoreth her bag..... and patience is a virtue, patience is a virtue, patience is a virtue.....Vplm is in best position EVER, vplm is in best position EVER. Keep repeating and everything will be everything....... Until it's all over in about 5 more yrs and you move on a little or alot poorer.
Oh ok, I get it now. You think that the right to voice your opinions is just an American thing but you being Canadian, doesn't apply to you. Got it.
LMAO.YOU GUYS LIVING IN THE DREAM LAND.
A profit sharing deal would greatly enhance VPLM’s PPS
B.O.A.R.
This is a great piece on your last post.
Everyone wanting to get a glimpse of creative partnerships/ownerships can in thee ability for the magnificent seven to share communication patents without ownership which allows these huge companies to avoid being named monopolies is excellent.
Sharing not through acquisitions but thru sharing contracts is brilliant.
This could most definitely be in VOIPPALS future.
Thanks BOAR.
In our opinion
Wonder if Amazon is in the patent buying mood?:
Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup.
It's curious that we haven't seen anything from the VP/amzn court docket since Feb 8th.
So then. Rich is very excited about this? Seems like you expect he would be depressed or sumthin'.... Because you know more about the company inner workings than he does?
ROTFL!! Sure....you've never said this before.....
VPLM is a stock with very little information flow, so my conversations with Rich are very helpful. BTW, Rich has had a downer tone at times, especially during the Alice excursions, so his tone gives good clues. Never has is tone been this positive. This along with the advisor additions suggests something in the works, presently. I do believe we are close and whatever might be cooking has little to do with court dates. Hope that helps...NO SINGING AND THAT IS A BLESSING FOR ALL!
DeerBalls
Re: rapz post# 59545
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 9:18:58 PM
Post#
59547
of 128915
Great post, r! I spoke with Rich today and it was very positive. The tone of the call was very upbeat! I always get a ton of information from the tone alone! Can't hide that.
NEW FILINGS.BARBARA AND CHANG.SELLING DAILY.DIVORCE BARBARA IMMEDIATELY,AND KICK CHANG OUT OF THERE.
SEND THEM BOTH TO DELIVER PIZZA.CHANG BROKE???LMAOOOO.THIS DIRTY BAG IS CASHING OUT 10K$ PER WEEK=40K$ PER MONTH.BROKE???LOL.BARBARA IS CASHING OUT 50K$ TO 60K$ PER MONTH.
Baggio Barbara
COMMON 3/18/2024 S 89,447 D $0.0164 93,565,805 D
COMMON 3/18/2024 S 250,000 D $0.0158 93,315,805 D
COMMON 3/19/2024 S 250,000 D $0.0159 93,065,805 D
COMMON 3/20/2024 S 150,000 D $0.0156 92,915,805 D
COMMON 3/21/2024 S 150,000 D $0.0158 92,765,805 D
COMMON 3/22/2024 S 150,000 D $0.0158 92,615,805 D
COMMON 3/22/2024 S 696 D $0.0163 92,615,109 D
CHANG DENNIS
COMMON 3/18/2024 S 125,000 D $0.0156 2,583,198 D
COMMON 3/19/2024 S 125,000 D $0.0158 2,458,198 D
COMMON 3/20/2024 S 125,000 D $0.0156 2,333,198 D
COMMON 3/21/2024 S 125,000 D $0.0158 2,208,198 D
COMMON 3/22/2024 S 125,000 D $0.0156 2,083,198 D
OMG.THE FREAKEN SCAMBAGS.NEW O/S:::IS NOW 3,105,4 BILLION.UP FROM 3,018 BILLION ON FEB 6TH.SO 87 MILLION ADDED
TO THE O/S.UNFREAKEN REAL.A SHARE SELLING SCAM FOR INSIDERS TO PROFIT ON THE DAILY BASIS.WATCH THE NEXT POST COMING.
02/06/2024
Outstanding Shares
3,018,794,198
https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/VPLM/security
Outstanding Shares
3,105,442,847
03/18/2024
Restricted
1,308,511,399
03/18/2024
Unrestricted
1,796,931,448
03/18/2024
I'm Canadian
I'm not irritable in the least... And I don't "bash" Vplm, I simply tell the truth as I see it. You're just one more case of being a poor judge of character A basher, at least in my definition, is someone who posts negative just for the sake of doing so or they could be a shorter as well. Or I suppose they might think they could bring the price down so they can buy cheaper. I'm not part of any of that. I've provided around 12 years of opinions, facts, dot connecting, logic, critical thinking and dd, to support and backup my negative sentiments about this so called company. If you haven't read that body of info, there you go and if you have read it all and come to your negative conclusion, again there ya go. I find it funny and interesting the fact that you have no problem with the other guy thinking it's his place to tell people to STFU. You're basically saying the same so your of the same cut. You have no respect for others opinions that don't agree with yours.
Oh and if it's true that you "can't wait"......well, if you think I'm going somewhere, hold your breath.
Wow, you sound a little irritable... are you seeing your bashing this stock here coming to an end soon?
Can't wait.... I really can't wait.
Why, so you can tell me to STFU like you tell others when you don't agree with them and obviously think you have more rights and reasons to say whatever your opinions are, than others do? The fact that you feel you have the right to tell others to shut up when all ppl have the same right to voice they're opinion here, tells me why you don't have the capacity to understand the simple point of the Rich "inYA pockets" Inza posts. The moment you think you have the unconstitutional, thus un-American right to tell others to shut up, is the same moment when you, ironically, lose the right to have your questions answered.
La-di-da
Brother I have another play where I have to buy as much stock as I possibly can. I'll readdress and reassess what i want to do with vplm later
BRO YOUR NEXT BUYS AT .013 OR .01??I AM THINKING MAYBE WE GET SOME .013:)
The most significant symptoms of OCD are repetitive compulsions that result from obsessions. Likely caused by separation anxiety no doubt house bound that would pretty much explain it. Lol
what on earth do these posts mean?
Richard Inza
@richinza
@jemimakiss A solution to the EU's fight to end roaming http://businesswire.com/news/home/20130916005454/en
Ok but I was sleeping. Come back later...
Richard Inza
@richinza
·
Sep 11, 2013
@jemimakiss Hi Jemima. Were you able to look at what I sent you?
Damn he just followed me into the bathroom....
Richard Inza
@richinza
·
Sep 10, 2013
@jemimakiss can I send you info on a company thats going to disrupt VoIP industry with issued patents? Led a FT's 8 to know in telecom
he ain't nuttin but a HOUNDdog
Richard Inza
@richinza
·
Sep 30, 2013
@jemimakiss my apology. no intent to spam, i thought you had interest and only meant to update you on developments. My sincerest apology
Same guy AGAIN? whoa
Richard Inza
@richinza
·
Sep 30, 2013
@jemimakiss Its obvious i've tried to alert tech media to what i believe will be a significant biz story. No intent to send unwanted info.
what, me nag?
Richard Inza
@richinza
·
Sep 30, 2013
@jemimakiss I wont bother you again unless you contact me about it. Again I am very sorry.
Sound familiar?
Richard Inza
@richinza
·
Sep 30, 2013
@jemimakiss Hi Jemima, Voip-Pal 5th patent allowed by USPTO. Stock price more than doubled in the last week. Billion dollar buyout soon?
yeah, right!!!
3/26. VPLM VWAP=$.01556 VOLUME=422k Bid side
3/25. VPLM *VWAP=$.0159* VOLUME=2mm Offer-side 4 to 1
3/22. VPLM VWAP=$.0157 VOLUME=1.81mm Bid-side 3 to 1
3/21. VPLM VWAP=$.0158 VOLUME=1.65mm Offer-side 6 to 1
3/20. VPLM VWAP=$.0156 VOLUME=1.13mm Bid-side nearly all
3/19. VPLM VWAP=$.0159 VOLUME=1.98mm Bid-side 2 to 1
3/18. VPLM VWAP=$.0158 VOLUME=1.74mm Offer-side 3 to 1
3/15. VPLM VWAP=$.0158 VOLUME=636k Bid-side 9x
3/14. VPLM VWAP=$.0159 VOLUME=831k Bid-side 6x
3/13. VPLM VWAP=$.016+ VOLUME=1.3-mm Bid-side 2x minus
I promise, I sing NEVER, however I have been on this for a decade. I speak with Rich frequently and the excitement is palpable. I get nothing "inside", nor do I want it, but the tone is very different this go. Last year the market was predicting something good, maybe just a bit premature!
VPLM is a stock with very little information flow, so my conversations with Rich are very helpful. BTW, Rich has had a downer tone at times, especially during the Alice excursions, so his tone gives good clues. Never has is tone been this positive. This along with the advisor additions suggests something in the works, presently. I do believe we are close and whatever might be cooking has little to do with court dates. Hope that helps...NO SINGING AND THAT IS A BLESSING FOR ALL!
It appears to me that Vplm is beginning to get some, yet small, amount of spread back, after a period of near flatlining. My advice is if you have any hope of not having Vplm stock as a total loser, work the spread and try to recoup whatever you might and do not count on the patent infringement ship to ever come in.
Same old same old. How many times have we heard the same garbage? Get back to me when they get financial judgements that are in-line with the "billions and billions of ongoing" infringements that the CEO has spoken about. If not then it's a complete failure and confirmation that the patents aren't worth near as claimed.
Oh boy. How exciting! THAT'S never happened before...
Oh boy. How exciting! THAT'S never happened before...
VPLM has set court dates this year and next.
DB…You’ve been singing this song for a while….why do you think something is finally in the works?
(Also, now seeing you on another board as well…..one that’s been doing quite well….)
Followers
|
457
|
Posters
|
|
Posts (Today)
|
8
|
Posts (Total)
|
132124
|
Created
|
06/16/10
|
Type
|
Free
|
Moderators sunspotter Sheepdog GreenBackClub Russ777 Spyke37 |
11810 NE 34th Street
Bellevue, WA 98005
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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=13148084&guid=znetUKy8w8cHxth
https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=13146397&guid=znetUKy8w8cHxth
https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=13146353&guid=znetUKy8w8cHxth
https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=13145009&guid=znetUKy8w8cHxth
https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=13144993&guid=znetUKy8w8cHxth
https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=13110545&guid=znetUKy8w8cHxth
https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=13110507&guid=znetUKy8w8cHxth
https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=13099496&guid=znetUKy8w8cHxth
https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=13099423&guid=znetUKy8w8cHxth
https://www.otcmarkets.com/filing/html?id=13099381&guid=znetUKy8w8cHxth
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WARNING! COMPANY CONTINUES TO RAISE AS AND OS WITH NO REVENUES IN SIGHT:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VPLM'S CASE DISMISSED BUT WILL BE APPEALED.
https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/VPLM/news/Voip-Palcom-Reports-Decision-in-the-Alice-101-Motion?id=222536
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.
Corporate Website: www.voip-pal.com
IR inquiries: IR@voip-pal.com
IR Contact: Rich Inza (954) 495-4600
“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.
Image Source: Deposit Photos
Photo by iqoncept
ID: 10088061
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.
Any forecast of future financial performance is a "forward looking statement" under securities laws. Such statements are included to allow potential investors the opportunity to understand management’s beliefs and opinions with respect to the future so that they may use such beliefs and opinions as one factor among many in evaluating an investment.
Corporate Website: www.voip-pal.com
IR inquiries: IR@voip-pal.com
IR Contact: Rich Inza (954) 495-4600
THE PTAB IS FINALLY DONE!!! VPLM 8-0 VS Unified Patents, T and BIGGEST, LONGEST CHALLENGES OF ALL...aapl! aapl LOSES!!!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OS HAS DROPPED TO 1.75B. CEOS
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.
*******WARNING ********
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
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WARNING
RETAIL SHAREHOLDERS INTERESTS DIMINISHING AND SHARES HITTING THE FLOAT CONSISTENTLY WITH TONS OF STOCK ISSUED OVER PAST YEARS!
DEFINITION OF TOXIC IN THIS ARENA! ITS RIGHT THERE IN THE FILING!
REMEMBER, VPLMS IP MIGHT BE WORTH BILLIONS
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“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.
Tags:CAFC, Capitol Hill, Congress, Federal Circuit, innovation, intellectual property, InvestPic LLC, McRo v. Bandai Namco Games America, patent, patent eligibility, patent eligible, Patent Reform, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, PTAB, SAP America v. InvestPic, SCOTUS, US Supreme Court
Posted In:Capitol Hill, Courts, Federal Circuit, Government, Inventors Information, IP News, IPWatchdog Articles, Litigation, Patents, Technology & Innovation, US Supreme Court, USPTO
GOVERNMENTAL/LEGISLATIVE TIDE TURNING IN
VPLM'S FAVOR?
Volume | |
Day Range: | |
Bid Price | |
Ask Price | |
Last Trade Time: |