"MPEG Lawyers Accused Of Taking Inventions They Reviewed And Patenting Them from the seems-questionable dept"

"Someone anonymous has submitted this story which we're initially pretty skeptical about. At this point, it's all quite one sided, and some more details would be useful.

However, we're posting it here to see if others have more info on the story: "Primary patent reviewer for MPEG, Kenneth Rubenstein and a former IBM patent counsel (and few others) are accused of taking inventions from small inventors and patenting them in their own names, when they were acting as patent counsel for them.

A patent attorney filing for 90 patents in his own name is definitely not ok. Who can you trust if not your own patent lawyer?"

There are some pretty wild claims as you read through the details (death threats and attempted car bombings, included). While MPEG is no saint, it's a huge jump to go from similar patents being filed to claiming that the patent reviewers literally took the invention and patented it in their own names. It's possible -- we're not denying that -- but it seems that it should be backed up with more proof. Considering the space they were in, it's quite possible that multiple people came up with similar ideas -- and, in fact, this could be an argument that these particular patents aren't valid (if multiple people all had the same idea, that suggests it fails the "non-obvious to the skilled practitioner" test). As we said, the details so far are one-sided and not entirely clear -- so we'd love to hear from others with more details."

Source and More Information
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060119/1225216.shtml

Also Check out the Following Links for more information

http://www.iviewit.tv/#Evidence

Warner Bros. Signed Agreements with iViewit Inventors

http://www.iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/20010822%20-%20SIGNED%20Warner%20Bros%20Agreement%20AOL.pdf

Warner Bros. igned and Violated Iviewit Non Disclosure Agreements.

http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/Patents/Confidentialities/confidentialities%20total.pdf

http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/Patents/Confidentialities/confidentialities%20total.pdf

http://jeffreybewkes.blogspot.com/2010/10/sec-complaint-against-time-warner.html
Keep in mind that Philip Falcone's company Lightsquared's General Counsel was formerly the Time Warner Inc. General Counsel, and KNOWS of massive shareholder fraud at Time Warner which he FAILED to Disclose.

More Regarding Curtis Lu, then Time Warner Inc. General Counsel and Former Fannie Mae General Counsel.

http://curtislublog.blogspot.com/2011/02/curtis-lu-time-warner-incunder.html

http://jeffreybewkes.blogspot.com/2010/04/curtis-lu-senior-vice-president-and.html

http://curtislublog.blogspot.com/2011/02/curtis-lu-senior-vice-president-and.html

http://curtislublog.blogspot.com/2011/02/curtis-lu-time-warner-inc-general.html
Eliot Bernstein Conversation with Time Warner Inc. General Counsel Curtis Lu.


More On iViewit, Time Warner, Warner Bros. and Shareholder Fraud and Deceiit

http://iviewit.tv/wordpress/?p=498

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EHvwkpj4Mn9l-P4LlOOutpD_MTmxOjgFKCgtZJiPSbw/edit?hl=en


John Calkins, Warner Bros., iViewit
http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/20020208%20Lamont%20to%20Calkins%20Warner%20Bros%20Re%20Colter%20and%20Thagard%20Advisory%20Board%20Stock.pdf


Doug Chey of HP, Formerly of SONY

http://douglaschey.blogspot.com/

http://douglaschey.blogspot.com/2011/02/douglas-chey-hp-formerly-of-sony-acts.html

http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/20010525%20Sony%20Doug%20Chey%20Endorsement%20of%20Tech%20and%20Advisory%20Board%20Option%20letter.pdf


iViewit Documents

http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/Patents/Confidentialities/confidentialities%20total.pdf

http://www.iviewit.tv/#Evidence


Links to More on the Iviewit - Warner Bros., Time Warner Inc., Jeffrey Bewkes, Curtis Lu and AOL Connection.

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgvpzjzw_9ghxg4km9
SEC Complaint

http://www.iviewit.tv/
iViewit Website

http://www.deniedpatent.com/
My Blog on the Iviewit Stolen Patent

http://www.deniedpatent.com/2010/01/letter-from-aol-time-warner-regarding.html
David Colter Emails, John Caulkins Emails, Chuck Dages, and Alan Bell

http://www.deniedpatent.com/search/label/Warner%20Bros.
Warner Bros. Posts on my Iviewit Blog

Links from Iviewit Web Page about Warner Bros.

http://www.iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/20010822%20-%20SIGNED%20Warner%20Bros%20Agreement%20AOL.pdf

http://www.iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/colter%20letter%20to%20Calkins.pdf

http://www.iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/2003%2004%2011%20-%20Rubenstein%20repsonse%20KRANE%20CONFLICT%20AUTHORED%20to%20N.pdf

http://www.iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/proskauer%20client%20infringers.pdf

http://www.iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/2004%2011%2015%20SC%2004-1078%20IVIEWIT%20REBUTTAL%20TO%20FLORIDA%20BAR%20RESP(1).pdf

http://www.iviewit.info/

http://www.stevedowling.com/

http://www.brucesewell.net/