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My take is that federal law and constitutional law trumps judges discretion even in Texas. I think Ghost only wanted to make the general point that in most cases, court is open. I guess I inadvertently got this whole thing going when I asked or suggested that courts are open, but I only said that because someone said something about they being privy to certain court docs while others might not be. I had a problem with that so I questioned it. Turns out, he was talking about the fees paid via Pacer, but to me that didn't adequately answer why he thought he had to hold back certain info he said was ok for his eyes but maybe not others. So I looked up about the copying and sharing of such info gathers from Pacer and there is no copyright nor any reason the info cannot be shared online because it's public info to begin with. So I think the poster was wrong to say the docs were only for him. No reason I could find why he couldn't freely share. That then led into this whole discussion about open courtroom and judge discretion. The answer is that indeed it sometimes is up to a judges discretion and in other cases it's a matter of constitutional law. In most cases where there is not sensitive and/or personal privacy and safety involved, courts are usually to be open to the public.
For anyone interested, here's some Texas law on the issue:
https://www.tdcaa.com/journal/revisiting-the-perils-of-closing-a-courtroom-to-the-public/#:~:text=Before%20a%20judge%20may%20exclude,tailored%20to%20protect%20that%20value.
I didn't even know that you COULD use Google to translate legalese. Is that so? I mean not directly, more likely you'd just get a whole mix of different incoming opinions in conflict with ea other if you tried to use Google for that purpose. But it sounds like the service you left the link for is solely there to explain court docs. In fact I should quit guessing about it and go check out your link see exactly how it works.
10-4 on the old school values. That's me. But I have no problem with electronic trading. Electronics don't lie or manipulate as long as hoo-mans ain't tweaking the software, which of course they are. Sad truth is when money is involved, human beings will do whatever it takes to get their hands on it. That's generally speaking. Not saying everyone is a crook, but sooner or later, 99.9% do crooked stuff for money sake. Especially when times get rough or their freedom or continued existence is at stake. You can't even trust yourself sometimes when push comes to shove.
Was no need for you to apologize to anyone. You just needed to a little widening of your perspective. And again, must be an awful thin line between greed and not greed. What is the dividing line?
As to why I'm here... I've told my whole story here a million times. I've been 100% truthful. Yet it begets all sorts of disbelieving me and disrespect and ridicule and accusations of everything under the sun, mostly because those peeps are simply mean spirited or dumb or followers of well known mean spirited ppl with hardcore agendas. Some of it is utterly amazing to see ppl who act try to present themselves as mature, smart, knowledgeable, good judges of character, fair, objective, etc etc........but then throw all that out and act like children, not nice children but mean children who were abused. And they talk so knowingly and sure if themselves but are the worst judges of character there can be. And they act very sophomoric and pedestrian and deceitful. Of course all of those attributes are their mental issues, not mine. I don't harass ppl or get into name calling or rude nasty vulgar PMs sent on a regular daily basis for years. And yet, there are peeps here who follow ppl like that as tho they are god or a guru. Me, I get alot of entertainment from some of it. If it becomes annoying I just block. Some of them are so driven, they continue to post mean spirited stuff to me daily even tho they are blocked and i never see their posts. A couple ppl pm'd me to tell me but I tell them not to pm me as I don't care. Their mental issues are theirs not mine.
To answer you question, I'm here for a number of reasons. For one, I'm a long time stockholder and come here to see what's happening. Also, it's a great source of entertainment to me. Also this board is like social media to me. I don't do Facebook or X or any of the main social media. Never have. I think they are bad places where you just give away all your privacy and let yourself be used by all the bigs involved who buy and sell your personal info left and right. At the same time I like to talk and especially I like to write and here I have something in common with everyone, vplm. I also have done a ton of research and I'm smart in certain areas and have followed this play as closely as I can for almost 13 yrs and I believe every word I've said here about vplm and I figure I'm just as entitled to speak my mind as to what I have determined as those who are pro vplm. That's my right and that's what the forum is here for. Meanwhile there are many who have shown clearly that they think if you aren't pro vplm you dont belong here, lolol. I love pushing back and pushing their buttons especially since I usually don't say anything unless I know what I'm talking about and can back it up. So it's a great for of social media for me. I also provide lots of good info and documents and insight. And I definitely have a well developed sense of humor and provide some laffs here and there. No hidden agendas. Never any thoughts of driving price up down or anywhere. Never shorted. And the dummies who hang on every word I say and are infatuated with me and can't wait to say something hateful to me, I hope it makes them feel better and I hope it helps keep them off the streets, haha. All I can say to them is wise up, don't hate. There's no time for hate. Get a grip. You're not impressing anyone except yourself.
I truly hope vplm pulls off a big bingo but in my head and heart, I'm pretty sure I know better as I've spelled out many times why I think so. I've written off my remaining shares to likely never be more than toilet paper but there's always that miracle possibility. I'm locked into the black forever with vplm as long as I don't buy anymore which I won't. And if I ever get the 50 cents I want for m y shares, too bad oh well...
Makes one wonder about the veracity of the sec as well. There are volumes attesting to sec corruption. The fcc takes kickbacks why not the sec?
Settlement in principle was announced 5/2. If that's not the settlement date, then where is the settlement date listed?
I'd have to agree there's some truth to that but I don't know about 95%. That amount of peeps not caring about the truth is scary. But hey, if ppl want to play stocks like they were a scratch off or a one arm bandit, that's their perogative. That can be fun. Maybe they don't want to do the research cuz they already know that the really low priced pennystocks are a complete crap shoot so they want to take their chances. It all comes down to whether you can afford to lose or not. I take it very seriously and don't want to lose. That's why quit gambling. And I have lots of fun here and make alot of jokes but all lightheartedly and once I realized what I think vplm is up to and that day trading was too risky, I quit buying vplm.
"Is it time yet to face the reality that the only reason anyone bought this stock was for greed?"
I can't agree with that. It's true for some I suppose but in my case and others I'm sure, I bought in way back before any of what you suggest is true. I got in somewhere around 2009 or so. I know it was that far back because that's when I started buying stocks, having recognized the apparent major opportunity to get into it after the big crash, even though I knew absolutely zero about stocks and the market. And also because I remember getting in somewhere 1 to 2 yrs before I discovered there was a msg board. For a long time I had no idea there was this msg board. And I did register here almost back to 2010, so that puts me getting into vplm near 2009. Thats almost 15 yrs. It was long before there was even any talk about patents. I had rcvd a tip about vplm and when I saw it was a company involved in voip, I was already aware of voip and thought it would get very big because it already was getting big.
I don't consider that greed per se. Greed is a funny and somewhat ambiguous word. Where does it cross the line from simply wanting to leverage things to make a profit.....to becoming obsessive or overreaching, thus greedy?
And the way you characterized it is all wrong... It sounds as though you're channeling your own feelings into what the rest of shareholders thought and believed. You need to, as I have often recommended ppl do, go back and read the history of this board. Only then, can you truly know what everyone was thinking as it's all documented right here.
Doing so, you would find that some or many had already got on the bus long before any talk of acquisition or patents. Then, fast fwd to about 2011 when almost to a person, all believed in the BS story STORY (read yarn) that vplm began putting out there (read spinning) in what is to me, the infamous PRs put out repeatedly, one after another, full of lies, by Dennis Chang, then CEO or president or whatever the hell he was. It was those story spinning PRs that persuaded me and many others to buy and buy or to become new shareholders. Many BIG promises were made in those PRs, which were never honored, BUT THEY DID INDEED GARNER MANY NEW SHAREHOLDERS AND SOLD MANY SHARES (to get the managers of vplm all setup). To be honest, I can't say for certain if and when the scamminess began before this or later on after lord Emu took over. It's possible that those PRs I refer to were on the up and up until after the deal was done completely and lord Emu came in. So what parts kipping, sawyer, Chang played, in terms of when it went rogue, I can't say for sure. It became known to me that something was very wrong when it became apparent that vplm was up for sale. All the plans, and the plans were fantasic and exciting, were abruptly thrown under the bus. And then lord Emu took over. So hard to tell how early the scamminess started and whether it was preplanned or evolved.
Point is, the word greed has a perjoritive component, as tho the ppl that invested in vplm were doing so for some untoward reason. I don't see that. Perhaps for some, but most, as you can read the history here, just wanted to invest in a winner. I don't percieve that as greed. It's like any other business. You invest in it and try to see a profit. Calling it greed kind of makes it the fault of the shareholders when it doesn't happen. Where I fault the shareholders is letting vplm slide and getting away with the way things have gone.
Mr WBW... Your post poses very good questions, some directly, some indirectly. In my opinion, and I don't know if the implications are there purposely or just kind of floated to be nice and show respect, but I was almost yelling to myself that the implications ought to be more forceful. Your questions/implications seemed to answer themselves, the way you laid it out. Very nice job of it, you did, as I would not have been able to show that much respect and restraint to lord Emu and the Emu-ess, considering his past history here and prior.
Kudos to you for not letting yourself become infected with the "patience is a virtue" and "best position ever" viruses.
Please be on the lookout for any indication that lord Emu has reimplemented his infamous so called anti dilution plan, where he automatically maintains 40% of all sales for himself. A few weeks ago and I just can't remember where I read it, but it said something about that having had occurred and I didn't follow up on it to see if true. I did see it in print though.
I have long been astonished at what the shareholders and the sec allow vplm to get away with and of course, getting away with stuff is equal to encouragement. Many still revere and cheer him on. It reminds me of the times when bandits on the run get cheered on by the townsfolk as they pass through on the run, just cause they're getting away with it and are besting the man. The difference here is those cheering on the robber are his own victims. And THAT is what helped him get here. And THAT, I think, is what he planned on in the 1st place.
Before I even finish reading your post of such diligently compiled figures on the share selling, I feel the need to put out to prominence this 1 fact you noted. It needs to be repeated and to stand alone, in bold.
"IN 2020 THROUGH 23 THE AVERAGE PROFIT OF SHARES SOLD IS $845,672 PER YEAR. FOR A COMPANY THAT HAS NO REVENUES AND JUST A PATENT CASE THAT IS A HEFTY AMOUNT OF PROFIT" .
VPLM.....if it hasn't rendered you nuts yet.....give it 5 minutes, that'll change...
Not bad front either..............to say the least
Most definitely a good link and service there. Definitely saving that one. What a great service to be offered. 1st time I ever heard of it. I would think many would be happy to see that one.
Basically true but to be exact and just for the record, for those who may be interested, not all courts are open to the public. As is true with most everything, there are numerous exceptions. For example, certain child molestation cases and cases involving peeps in witness protection program, certain cases involving undercover detectives, so forth and so on. So generally true but not always.
Also true you can get copies direct from courthouse clerk, but not all filings are always immediately available. For ex, there are certain filings that are not available for 90 days. I forgot which ones they are at the moment, but it's a fairly common court document. So again, true but with certain exceptions.
I think these rights fall under the 24th amendment but once again, I might have the wrong amendment. I try...
Basically true but to be exact and just for the record, for those who may be interested, not all courts are open to the public. As is true with most everything, there are numerous exceptions. For example, certain child molestation cases and cases involving peeps in witness protection program, certain cases involving undercover detectives, so forth and so on. So generally true but not always.
Also true you can get copies direct from courthouse clerk, but not all filings are always immediately available. For ex, there are certain filings that are not available for 90 days. I forgot which ones they are at the moment, but it's a fairly common court document. So again, true but with certain exceptions.
I think these fights fall under the 24th amendment but once again, I might have the wrong amendment. I try...
I know why....
If the patents were truly so powerful, foundational, necessary and valuable....
The why didn't vplm.......who was a voip service provider before they obtained the patents, keep their 2 year long, repeated over and over and over, promise to fold the technology into their own platform......and become the king of the hill voip service provider, take total control of the voip arena, and begin collecting 10s to hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties, plus all the millions of new subscribers, etc etc etc.........?????????
I know I know..... what a dumb question, right?
Even inYA pockets, Inza, admitted (allegedly, according to a poster who said he spoke to him on the phone recently) that the optics of the insider selling like hotcakes, wasn't good.
Updates... Shmupdates.... Shareholders don't give much weight to what lord Emu has to say, aside from the fact he doesn't have much important to ever say anyway........well..thats aside from when he tells those big whopper lies that he has so many times. I won't re-delineate them here.....is you don't recognize and acknowledge his lying mieading ways by now, I doubt you ever will. Same as you most likely couldn't less at his name being at the top of the list of vplm peeps who were found guilty of breach of fiduciary duty AND unjust personal enrichment. The fact that you can so easily ignore that and blow it off as not worth your consideration because you refuse to allow yourself to look directly at all the obvious and factual connected dots that form a clear shape and pattern of deciet, misdirection, failure to pay the appropriate homage to his support, the retail shareholders......obviiusly having zippo respect for them..... Not to mention you don't even think the massive dilution of years past, now followed by the massive sell-off of shares at piss prices and doing so by Emu, wife, and various board members as fast as they can get rid of them, even after agreeing to all these dismissals that have brought nothing to you or me, and not filing the forms for all these selloffs as required, for up to 2 yrs, and not filing the required forms for the so called Amazon settlement.
The reason this has always been a bust and will stay that way is because they have been allowed to get away with these things and not have to answer to anybody but instead are revered and applauded and trusted. The insiders are given lavish lifestyle on a silver platter because they had such a great STORY and such a great DELIVERY and so much support that peeps here used to say everyday that it would never be possible for vplm to fight the bugs, but guess what no problem year after year. They love it. They love you and you and you....because so many are satisfied living in the dark and being fed bullshit.
The simple fact is there is no reason or basis for the price to increase. And it's kept down by all the selling of the bosses. And it's manipulated to not go too low and collapse as there's too many in this scheme who depend on the steady income they rcv from it in the way of shares by the bazillions year after year.
Even when he does say something, it's really nothing but pocket lint wrapped in fluff... He knows he's better off just keeping his mouth shut and just keep putting gas in the big green 5 STORY high monster share printing, share selling, personal insider ATM machine.
I don't expect the pps to stay under 2 for long...
You said that court docs or certain ones, we're open to you but not to the public. I asked what would be open to you but not the public. Your reply was Texas court information. I asked why and you said you were paying for the docs and they might not be open to the public or something close to that. With ZG's info and now my own research, I see that in general, all trials, civil or criminal are open to the public with some few exceptions and that the courts proceedings are also open to the public via Pacer and the fees are small and are waved if the requests are under a certain amount. Therefore, unless I misunderstood you, I think I should take exception to you telling me that what you had been referencing was not available to the public and that perhaps I should hire a lawyer to be able to access the courts info. Sorry if I misunderstood but thats how it came across to me.
Now, I don't yet know if the court documents that are accessed via pacer are ok to copy/paste here but I'm guessing they are since they are indeed public information. I'll check into that further. But if it's ok, and the docs are free or very inexpensive, I don't see why they aren't shared more than they are, generally speaking.
As to trial proceedings, I don't think I said anything about that, but rather just questioned you on what you said. It doesn't matter if it's non trial proceedings or trials when they occur, it's about the ongoing progress of court proceedings in the vplm cases, is all.
Therefore, if a case is dismissed and I understand several already have been, my assumption is that the reason for dismissal ought to be read from the court minutes or summaries or whatever it is that we can access publicly. And yet, there seems to be a lack of understanding and/or confusion as to certain aspects of those settlements. Add to that, the fact that I see any sort of settlement as a definite material event, yet at least in the case of the alleged Amazon settlement, there have been to my knowledge, no SEC filings so far, such as 10q or 8k and I don't understand why. I'd like to know why. I think there was possibly enough time to have filed that info in the 2nd quarter filing but if not, my understanding is the requirement is for an 8k to be filed (I think it's an 8k) within 4 days, but that didn't happen either to my knowledge. I find all this to be pretty fishy, but not at all surprising.
Totally agree with your 1st paragraph and that's what I've done with this stock, although I had to learn to go that route after being misled by the elitist shareholders who like to refer to themselves as "the true longs", lolol. Then, when there were still nice sizable oscillations in the price, I was able to get to recoup my on paper losses and get profitable. Then, as I learned more and more about what I think this play is really about, I vowed to never buy their stock anymore, which in hindsight has saved me alot of money in lieu of the performance in general.
As to the info about the fees, very surprised to hear that. I've been to the pacer site several times and never saw that info mentioned. If I had seen it, I would've made an acct, even tho I don't deal well with the language in the docs. If true, I'm sure lots of other shareholders will be glad to know that and look into it. It all makes more sense to me now. I'll have to revisit the site and look closer. Thx
Ok. When I said "open to", I meant courtrooms when a trial is underway and I was thinking maybe not? And also whether or not trial minutes or summaries were public. I said I was gonna look it up but got distracted. I see you are saying yes to public and I will accept that as the answer until and unless I see otherwise. I think the main takeaway I getting is that while public, in terms of the docs, they are available but not for free and that seemingly applies to digital downloading but also seems to apply to basic online viewing. So the question arises....if the law says it's all public, then doesn't that imply that public access should be free?
Appreciate you info sharing...
Awesome Z. That was real nice of you to explain all that. I was aware of pacer and have on occasion been able to get some basic info free from the site. I was surprised to hear from you that the prices are cheap as I thought otherwise for some reason. In any event, I'm not into the court proceeding enough to have felt the need, plus I get a headache trying to decipher the legalese. I hope your well thought out post helps some others. Honestly, the only reason I questioned the OP was just my curiosity what he meant by "available to him but not the general public" and he did explain. It's all good info to know.
Just in case you're not aware, my negative sentiments regards vplm are based on I guess you would say, more indirect facts about what the company has done and/or not done, as the case may be, since way back around 2011. I jumped in approx a couple yrs before that based on a tip and my knowledge and interest in voip. I was pro vplm until they began the big whopper lies around 2011, which had me hook line and sinker until they showed their true colors in 2013, I think it was, when they chose, with no known rhyme or reason, to become the #1 poster child for patent trolls. Little by little, after that, dozens if not hundreds of dots connected for me, that the whole patent thing is a farce.
An eminence front, it's a put on.
Thanx for that reply ZG. I know that some court proceedings and trials are open to the public but I didn't know if all were. Somehow, I still doubt they all are. The reason I asked in this case, the poster had said the pertinent court info was available to him but not to the public. I wondered why naturally, and he explained that he was paying for the docs, which I understand but that made me think, well, if the proceedings are able to be bought by ppl, then that must be to pay the court for the preparation of them but at the same time I figured it also meant the court proceedings would/should be open to the public. You seem to be corroborating that. Appreciate it. I imagine certain trials may not be open. I'll look it up.
Thx again.
I see. Does that mean that the courtroom is closed to the public when in session? I'm just curious is all.
My mistake saying "get Napolitano on speed dial". I was thinking of the right person but the wrong name. I meant Janet Reno, not Janet N.
No, I never heard of that story/rumor, but admittedly, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it were proven to be true.
No, never spoke to inYA pockets. I would never even consider it because #1, the way I see it, his job is to be a paid mouthpiece for a lowly otc pennystock, and as such, I see that as an inherent major conflict of interest. Obviously he's not gonna say anything negative about the mouth that feeds him, right? I recall, way in the past he was actually censured by vplm for going too far out on a limb in some way and I think it happened more than once. So it wouldn't be a good or fair conversation because I wouldn't believe a word he said. SS has posted a couple pieces in the past that didn't present a very good impression based on his record. Granted, it's very old stuff but it's still apparently history:
_____________________________________________________
"Rich Inza is the most honest IR person I have ever talked with in 25 years of
playing pennies..."
Really?
LOL:
"Rich Inza profile:
.
January 2014
Rich Inza served as spokesman for City Capital Corp. during the period when the
penny stock firm was aggressively promoting its Clean Sweep Holdings
sweepstakes, which U.S. securities regulators allege was the second pillar of the
company’s $11 million Ponzi scheme.
.
On his Linkedin.com profile, Inza styles himself as an investor relations
consultant for “publicly traded companies,” boasting that his company’s services
are “directed towards raising awareness of your company in the investment
community and increasing your shareholder value.”
.
However, Inza’s resume does not point out that he has never provided investor
relations for companies that trade on New York (NYSE) or NASDAQ, the major
U.S. stock exchanges for publicly traded companies. Inza so-called investor
relations services are primarily targeted at penny stocks, pink sheets and over-
the-counter companies, thinly traded equities that often have no active trading
market.
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Currently, Inza is the investor relations contact for Voip-Pal.com Inc., an over the
counter pink sheet shell which has issued a number of speculative press
statements about patent applications that “have received expressions of interest
from well qualified entities to potentially license its suite of patents or acquire
Voip-Pal.com.”
(of course that "interest" never panned out or even was ever validated as reality)
.
Companies
on the Pink Sheets are not required to meet minimum requirements or file with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Typically, companies are on the
Pink Sheets because either they are too small to be listed on a national exchange
or they do not wish to make their budgets and accounting statements public.
(and now, many yrs after continuously promising to upgrade to full reporting, and
having finally done so, they continue to be very secretive about the most
important info to s/h's. Same ol', same ol')
.
Investopedia warns that investors should be aware of four cautions for micro-
cap stocks. First, most OTC stocks do not meet the minimum and do not file
with the SEC. Therefore, credible and reliable fundamental data are not available
for analysis. Second, historically Pink Sheets stocks are penny stocks and are
often near-insolvent
companies. Third, some stocks are illegitimate shell companies set up to scam
investors by issuing press releases, and having “analysts” promote the stock and
issue more worthless shares. Fourth, Pink Sheets only has one requirement for a
company to list - a company needs to have one market maker quoting its stock.
The listing companies do not have to provide any financial information at all.
(all of these above tenets, arguably are still the general fare)
.
As of Sept. 20, 2013, Voip-Pal.com had unaudited revenues of $151.00. Net
losses for the year were $3.38 million with the largest portion of that going
toward ($2.8 million) stock based compensation. The company currently rents
office space for $79 a month through Regus Management Group, a virtual office
and phone answering service.
(4 yrs later, all above still the same story, only worse)
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On Inza's twitter account here, nearly all of the more than 500 tweets are aimed
at hyping Voip- Pal.com, despite the fact that the company has no current
revenue stream. Inza also formerly served as the investor relations contact for
the now defunct Atlantic Energy Solutions Inc., another pink sheet company that
died on the vine.
(I wonder what that number is now? Actually, I remember that the BOD had to
put a gag on his over zealous tweeting. Remember?)
.
The OTC Markets has issued this bulletin concerning the Atlantic Energy.
"Investors are advised that OTC Markets Group has been unable to contact or
confirm the location of this company," the statement said."
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http://www.thegreedchase.com/#!rich-inza-profile/cqnc
"Nuggets, Surprises, Catalysts have been nonexistent leading some to invent potential positive moves in the stock."
Very astute observation
"It can't go on like that. With just half as many new filings, Judge Albright would still be the undisputed number one U.S. trial judge in terms of the number of patent cases on his docket. But what's happening at the moment is a frenzy to put it mildly, or simply an insanity. In a short while, Judge Albright's reputation may be ruined, the local economy seriously harmed, and ultimately that won't even be positive for the W.D. Tex. patent docket."
" Even if Judge Albright tried to be a bit more balanced, the fact that many major technology companies have a presence in his district would ensure a steady stream of patent filings. However, the current explosion is going to backfire in multiple ways":
Judge Albright has gone too far. It's time for the pendulum to swing in the other direction. Otherwise this is going to be nothing short of a disaster. I'll pay close attention to new filings and decisions, and major trials, in that district."
* damn.....I hope this doesn't lead to another Waco...
Someone should get Napolitano on speed dial...
The only problem with that is it was reported here by someone who said they called inYA pockets, Inza, and he reported that Inza said there WAS a settlement and it GOOD FOR SHAREHOLDERS......or something along those lines. Soooo..... guess it's BACK TO PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE, yes/no?
But.......at the same time.......I commend you for mentioning the possibility, the obvious possibility, that all that insider selling like a lol, "going out of business" sale, unloading as much and as fast as is allowed......points to possible knowledge of negative stuff going down.
The freaking dots connect....
Funny you should say that....
I purposely refrained from adding any personal thoughts about getting to the bottom of that report......but it crossed my mind as to why would a judge do such a thing? What was his motivation? My 1st thought was, well you know, the usual motivation for everything......but I thought better of adding that suggestion and instead just let the report speak for itself. Lol, didn't take long for your reaction. He actually went places to "lobby" (for lack of a better term) for cases to come to him. Guess he was in save the world mode, eh?
Judicial Reassignment Order for Patent Cases
Because Albright is the only district judge in the Waco Division of the Western District of Texas, any patent cases filed in Waco were guaranteed to be assigned to him. This effectively gave plaintiffs the power to choose the judge to whom their cases were assigned by filing in the Waco Division, resulting in a disproportionately large number of patent cases being heard by Albright. Faced with mounting criticism from scholars, U.S. Senators, and the Chief Justice of the United States, on July 25, 2022, Chief Judge Orlando Garcia stripped Albright of automatic assignment of new patent cases filed in the Waco Division.[16] The reassignment order states that to "equitably distribute" patent cases, any new patent cases filed in the Waco Division on or after July 25, 2022 would be randomly assigned among twelve of the judges of the Western District of Texas, reducing Albright's case load to approximately 8% of new patent cases filed in Waco. The order only impacts judicial assignment of cases filed in the Waco Division, and only affects patent cases. Chief Judge Garcia's order is widely viewed by practitioners as signaling the demise of the Western District of Texas as a major venue for patent litigation.[17]
Controversy
After Albright encouraged patent owners to file claims in the Western District of Texas, one fifth of the nation's patent cases were filed in the district.[11] On September 24, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rebuked Albright for refusing to follow the law limiting federal judges from retaining cases that should be transferred to another jurisdiction.[12] On October 21, 2021, the Federal Circuit issued a writ of mandamus transferring another patent case that Judge Albright oversaw because of his prior denial of transfer. The Federal Circuit's opinion rebuked Albright's continuous denial of transfers from the Western District.[13]
Due to Albright's actions, on November 2, 2021, Senators Thom Tillis and Patrick Leahy wrote a bipartisan letter asking Chief Justice John G. Roberts to direct the Judicial Conference of the United States to "conduct a study of actual and potential abuses" that result from an "absence of adequate rules regulating judicial assignment and venue for patent cases within a [single judicial] district.".[14][15] The letter criticized Albright for having "openly solicited cases at lawyers' meetings" and for having "repeatedly ignored binding case law and abused his discretion," noting that Albright's decisions "resulted in a flood of mandamus petitions" being filed and granted "no fewer than 15 times in just the past two years.".[15]
* senator Leahy is one of 2 who wrote the law initiating the PTAB. Ironic.
What happened to all that talk about how fast Allright Allbright moved cases thru his court, cutting away all the fat and crap? Oh wait....this just in:
In 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit repeatedly rebuked him in a string of opinions for failing to transfer cases to more apt jurisdictions. A quarter of all patent lawsuits in the US were once heard by Albright, who has been widely criticized for ignoring binding case law. However, following a docket-stripping order issued by Chief Judge Orlando Garcia, Albright's patent docket has declined precipitously." oops
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Commencing countdown to the pushback
What kind of info is not privy to the public eye but is privy to you, with all due respect?
It just seemed logical to me that if you posted a doc to me from the court, that it was intended to show me something, otherwise why post? It had no info whatsoever on it other than a date, which court and the 2 parties involved and nothing else so that's why I asked the point or purpose.
The, in another doc posted, it's a 2 year+ old dismissal with predudice. The only thing I could gather from that was if it was for the same Amazon/MG patent case, which I don't know if that's so or not, but if it is, it can't be a mutual agreement to dismiss and pay ea others costs and go ea others way, I wouldn't think, because it's with predudice which means it can be brought up again, so maybe it was just like a breather of sorts, that both sides just wanted more time to develop their case or whatever? As. I said, I'm real bad at understanding court docs, tho I try.
So on the slim chance that have it right, that it's that 2+ year old case, now renewed and allegedly having reached some sort of agreement to settle, then I'm back to my simple observation that either it was just another case of a lying vplm PR and a lying IR guy, then do they just get away with that illegal action, as usual or is there an actual settlement with no required 8k or 10q, in which case, again, are they just allowed to get away with it or is it simply some stupid settlement that has little or nothing for shareholders? AND WHY HAVE WE, THE SHAREHOLDERS (mushrooms) BEEN KEPT IN THE DARK AND FED SHIT?
In my best take, along with the other dismissed cases with zippo for shareholders, this is just another case of the same and the sec couldn't care less unless someone gives them a big enough kickback to get froggy, and the house of cards continues to stand and operate is because the loyal Emuites keep giving and giving and giving......to the lord Emu go fund me site, with direct deposit to big Bertha, the big green personal insider ATM, share printing press, BS PR writer and share selling machine. It will one day wind up in the Smithsonian.
Never in the history of this planet, has there ever been a case where intelligent life has left something ALLEGEDLY so valuable and so powerful (according to lord Emu, Chang, Candy, Sawyer, inYA pockets INZA, etc) as to leave it lie in the middle of the road for anyone to grab and not do anything to protect their shareholders and allow them to also control the entire voip arena.
That's because the patents will prove, in the end, to be as worthless as they have been since they were created, over 15 yrs ago, other than the planned value they've had as the basis for "the story" which vplm has been selling to the hook, line and sinker club, (snake oil) since around 2010 or 11.
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Excuse my ignorance... I appreciate you posting this document but I don't see anything or anywhere on it that refers to what the document refers to. What does it refer to? All I am trying to find out is where is any official notice of a completed settlement or is there actually no settlement?
What is the court doc you posted? It's over 2 yrs old.
Not sure I understand what you're trying to tell me. The announcement of a settlement (in principle) was made on 5/2. There was, I believe, something about 45 days to finalize it. That would've been approx mid June. I'm not sure if there was ample time to file notice of it in the 10q but seems like there would've been because that came out mid August if I'm not mistaken and regardless, shouldn't there have been an 8k filed within 4 days? I'm not sure what you meant to show me with your posted 6/29 date of motion to dismiss? I'm pretty bad with any court language. Is that motion to dismiss necessarily also a notice of a settlement?
It appears to me, maybe wrongly, that either there was indeed a settlement and once again vplm failed to file necessary forms or there was no settlement and they once again lied to everyone. Which one is it? Help me understand this if you can.
I know that according to some poster, Inya did say there was a settlement and that shareholders would be happy with it. That was reported quite some time ago. It doesn't look to me like there was any settlement, much less a good one. I think vplm mgmt has blatantly lied to ppl many times in the interest of keeping the game going.