Boogieflash, I'm only jumping in because you've asked a real question and I'm certain you won't obtain a real answer. So, I'll give my best answer about VDRM and it's CEO Dr. Otiko - maybe it'll remain long enough for you to view it.
With regard to Keough's lawsuit against ViaDerma and it's CEO Dr. Otiko, you won't hear anything or see results of it until the matter is either settled or reaches judgement. That could take months.
Despite my best efforts to explain how patents work, everyone here seems content to believe if patents are abandoned then anyone can take them, lol. Which if anyone here invested the time in a phonecall to a patent attorney they'll understand how foolish that argument is. Now Keough is making some interesting claims and I'm not saying they are true BUT I know enough about federal law to know that NO ONE files a federal lawsuit if they don't have a case. The reason? IT'S EXPENSIVE!!!
Now, unless ViaDerma and Dr. Otiko can show that Viabeline is a technology NOT based on Diabeline (which unfortunately I have an email forwarded to me by a sales rep who was approached by Dr. Otiko to help sell the product and it is LITERALLY NAMED as Diabeline, lol), then there will be issues. If Keough's claims are proved correct, the outstanding issues are: #1 VDRM's CEO Otiko signed a trade secrets agreement with Keough stating he could not use anything he learned for his own benefit. #2 VDRM's CEO Otiko is using technology based on an abandoned patent and unfortunately you can only take technology from an EXPIRED patent. Again, facts. Consult a patent attorney and you'll find it to be true.
I still have quite a bit of shares and bought in at a higher price so I can't sell for that big of a loss right now. Just hoping that ViaDerma and Dr. Otiko are honest - which is a BIG ASK at this point. If ViaDerma truly has their own technology not based on Diabeline, then we're good to go. VDRM might spend quite a bit of shareholder money fighting the case but they'll prevail if CEO Dr. Otiko has something truly original. But judging by his past of stealing a filmmaker's copyright, which is documented, I don't know. (And by documented, I mean that I did a copyright search - which is FREE - and found that VDRM's CEO Otiko did in fact file a copyright in his own name for a film that is not his.) Again, facts. They suck don't they.
