Kenneth Rubenstein Corrupt Patent Attorney at Proskauer Rose Law Firm CONSPIRES with MPEG LA to Commit Massive Fraud and Anti-Trust Violations

MPEG-LA hit by antitrust suit over video codecs. Kenneth Rubenstein Corrupt Patent Attorney Proskauer Rose DOES it Again...

MPEG LA has been in the Illegal - Unethical
Patent Pooling Business for Years.

Proskauer Rose Law Firm has made a Living and Lifetime Business of Billion Dollar Corruption Schemes and screwing over investors. And Well Proskauer Rose's Patent Department has a Billion Dollar Patent Pooling Scheme going on with the help of Corrupt Proskauer Rose Patent Attorney Kenneth Rubenstein and the Illegal, Secret Patent Pool technology Stealing Schemes of MPEG LA.

Corrupt Law Firm ... Proskauer Rose Corrupt Law Firm...

MPEG-LA hit by antitrust suit over video codecs - MPEG LA is Corrupt, it is my understand that MPEG LA Stole a Trillion Dollar Patent with the Aid of Corrupt Law Firms, Tech Companies, Patent Attorneys and Executives

"MPEG-LA hit by antitrust suit over video codecs

German software maker Nero has filed an antitrust complaint against MPEG-LA, the company that oversees licensing for the H.264 video codec favoured by Microsoft and Apple.

MPEG-LA (MPEG Licensing Authority) controls the licenses for the pools of patents needed to use the MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and AVC/H.264 video standards.

As such, it collects royalties from the sale or distribution of almost every PC, DVD, DVD player, digital TV set, TV set-top box, still camera, video camera, iPhone and BlackBerry in the world.

Nero, best known for its CD burning software, alleges that MPEG-LA abuses its monopoly power in these technology markets.

The company filed its antitrust complaint in California district court in Los Angeles on 14 May, seeking unspecified monetary damages and an injunction to halt the alleged anti-competitive actions.

"Absolute power has corrupted MPEG-LA absolutely,"

Nero maintained in its complaint.

"Once MPEG-LA obtained monopoly power in the relevant technology markets, it used that power to wilfully maintain or extend its monopolies for years beyond their natural expiration... and administer its licences in an unfair, unreasonable, and discriminatory manner that stifles competition and innovation, and harms consumers."

MPEG-LA charges licensees different amounts for the same MPEG-2 patent, collects administration fees and royalties multiple times for the same device, and does not communicate its policies adequately to certain licensees, according to Nero.

"By remaining silent on vital aspects of its licensing programs, MPEG-LA has created a system that favours some licensees, such as insiders (ie, licensors), and disfavours others, such as outsiders (ie, non-licensor licensees)," Nero's complaint read.

"As a result, outsiders such as Nero have great difficulty planning technology changes and embarking on programmes to research, develop and implement technological innovations — and are charged supracompetitive royalties on distributions as to which they never agreed to pay royalties — while other licensees, such as insiders, do not face such problems."

According to Nero's complaint, MPEG-LA only obtained monopoly power in the relevant audio and video codec markets after getting assurances in 1997 that the Department of Justice (DoJ) would not launch antitrust proceedings against it.

These assurances were conditional on patent pools not being used to stifle competition, Nero stated. It added that MPEG-LA suggested to the DoJ at the time that the pool for MPEG-2 contained no more than 53 essential patents.

MPEG-LA subsequently added around 800 patents it deemed to be essential to the MPEG-2 pool, so as to extend the duration of the codec's licence, Nero said.

The company did the same thing with the MPEG-4 pool, which now includes more than 1,000 patents, and the AVC/H.264 pool, now with over 1,300 patents, according to the filing.

AVC/H.264 is the video codec of choice for Microsoft, which will support it natively in Internet Explorer 9, and for Apple, which is backing it as a superior alternative to Flash.

While Google also supports H.264 in Chrome, it recently open-sourced its own alternative, VP8, in a bid to provide a free alternative to the proprietary and paid-for H.264.

As part of its complaint, Nero said that MPEG-LA used its own patent counsel, Kenneth Rubenstein, as "a so-called 'independent' expert" to evaluate the essentiality of patents.

MPEG-LA had not responded at the time of writing to a request on Tuesday for comment on Nero's allegations. The next stage in the case will be for MPEG-LA to answer Nero's complaint. ""

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/regulation/2010/05/25/mpeg-la-hit-by-antitrust-suit-over-video-codecs-40089042/

Lets See How German Tech Companies Handle the Corrupt,
UnEthical and Illegal Behavior of MPEG LA....

Ok so a Decade after Kenneth Rubenstein, Corrupt MPEG LA - Proskauer Rose Law Firm Patent Attorney, helped MPEG LA to steal the Holy Grail of Video / Technology inventions in which we all use every day and have for years upon years, well now this same Corrupt Patent Attorney is involved in more patent theft and illegal patent pool... why is Proskauer Rose standing with Kenneth Rubenstein?

I mean Christopher Wheeler was involved in this stolen patent and he was pushed out.. Kenneth Rubenstein was not even at Proskauer Rose when he first started his patent theft FOR MPEG LA to illegally pool the iviewit technologies in patent pools to hide their existence.. then Corrupt Law Firm Proskauer Rose hired Kenneth Rubenstein after he already lied to the Iviewit Company and said that he was with Proskauer Rose.. so Corrupt Law Firm - Proskauer Rose must be getting billions from MPEG LA dirty dealings or they would not have harbored a CRIMINAL for so long.. also see.. Proskauer ROSE was the reason for the Fall of Enron with this patent .. this technology theft.. and no accountable?

Well that day has come... Unless of Course Corrupt Proskauer Rose also owns judges, ethics committees, supreme courts, and patent officials in Germany as Well as the US?

I will discuss a WHOLE lot more about MPEG LA, Kenneth Rubenstein and Proskauer ROSE and the Horrible Injustice, Flat Out Fraud, Shareholder Deception, and more that surrounds MPEG LA - Proskauer Rose and Kenneth Rubenstein Corrupt Patent Attorney STEALING a Trillion Dollar Technology and Illegally Pooling this Technology in MPEG patent Pools.. all orchestrated by ONE very Corrupt Patent attorney Kenneth Rubenstein..

PS don't forget.. MPEG and APPLE are seeming quite cozy and Bruce Sewell knew about Iviewit .. while at Intel and when informed went to APPLE.. more on that later..

Collecting Royalties from Stolen Technologies and Illegal Patent Pooling,
What an Incredible Racket... Billions hand over Fist on Someone Else's Invention .. and many of these inventors are harassed, bankrupted, their cars bombed and well just plain ol' SHUT Up..

Here are some Sites for more information in the iViewit Stolen Technology and the Illegal Patent Pooling Tricks and Schemes at MPEG LA with the Help of Proskauer Rose and Kenneth Rubenstein that has created Massive Shareholder Fraud that is now a High Profile SEC Complaint and a Federal RICO Lawsuit .. still undisclosed to unsuspecting shareholders of IBM, Intel Corp, AOL, Time Warner Inc. , Lockheed Martin, Warner Bros. , SGI, and More involved in the Blatant Theft of a Trillion Dollar Technology that We all used Every Day...

www.Iviewit.TV

www.DeniedPatent.com
www.JeffreyBewkes.com

www.CEOpaulOtellini.com

Proskauer Rose bio Clip on Kenneth Rubenstein"


" Kenneth Rubenstein is co-head of the Patent Law Group and a Partner in the New York office. He also is a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and a former member of the legal staff at Bell Laboratories. While there are numerous patent law groups at various firms, Ken and his group distinguish themselves from competitors by being able to deal with very sophisticated technology. "


Source
http://www.proskauer.com/professionals/Detail.aspx?professional=0eae1af8-e822-4a75-9414-d8ee3f87e890&tabId=0


posted by
Crystal L. Cox
Investigative Blogger
Crystal@CrystalCox.com

more on the MPEG LA stealing and pooling patents
.. at www.iViewit.tv/
and at www.DeniedPatent.com

Greenberg Traurig Possible Connection.. and Interested in ...

For me, just in my Opinion, based on My Personal Experience.. I think Greenberg Traurig just threw their name in the hat as Connected to Stephen Lamont.. not sure .. just a speculation..

You will See the Stat Added Here.. at the Bottom of the Page..

posted by
Investigative Blogger
Crystal L. Cox

Spotlight on Allen Stanford's Lawyers

"January 5, 2010 2:27 PM
TPM Shines Spotlight on Allen Stanford's Lawyers

Posted by Brian Baxter
R. Allen Stanford's principal in-house and outside lawyers are once again under the glare of the media, this time from Talking Points Memo.

The blog looked at the work done by former Greenberg Traurig lawyers Yolanda Suarez and Carlos Loumiet for the disgraced financier. Loumiet left Greenberg for Hunton & Williams in 2001, and Suarez served as Stanford's legal counsel and chief of staff after working at Greenberg as an associate in the early 1980s.

TPM reports that Loumiet and Suarez played integral roles in shielding Stanford from regulatory scrutiny and forging close ties between the Texas-based businessman and members of Congress. (Federal law enforcement officials are probing Stanford's congressional ties, according to a recent report by the Miami Herald.)

TPM singled out Loumiet's work drafting anti-money-laundering legislation for Antigua, the Caribbean island nation where Stanford based his offshore operations. (We reported on Greenberg's work for Stanford in October, picking up on another report from the Herald.) Loumiet touts the work on his current Hunton bio and TPM references an interview the lawyer gave to The Washington Post in 1999 defending Stanford, who also holds Antiguan citizenship.
When Loumiet left Greenberg for Hunton in 2001, he took Stanford's business with him. (Loumiet referred TPM's requests for comment to a Hunton spokeswoman, who declined to comment.)

As we noted late last year, the Stanford matter isn't Loumiet's first brush with scandal. At Greenberg, where Loumiet served as head of the firm's international banking practice, he became ensnared in the collapse of Hamilton Bank in 2002.

In June 2008, a federal judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence linking Loumiet to a fraud that caused his client to go under. Unlike his former firm and another partner, who paid almost $1 million in fines without admitting guilt, Loumiet refused to settle with a banking regulator.

But Loumiet and Suarez aren't the only lawyers to be tarred by their Stanford affiliations. Both Proskauer Rose and Chadbourne & Parke have been sued in a class action filed by a group of Stanford clients. Also named in the class action suit was former Stanford general counsel P. Mauricio Alvarado, a Vinson & Elkins alum whose abrupt resignation shortly before the SEC filed charges had some securities lawyers warning in-house counsel to be vigilant.

Ex-Proskauer partner Thomas Sjoblom, a former SEC attorney and longtime outside counsel to Stanford, resigned from the firm in October.

Sjoblom and Proskauer were also sued by a senior Stanford executive early last year.

Stanford, who is reportedly battling demons of his own while he remains incarcerated, is set to go on trial in January 2011."

Source of Post
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/01/stanfords-lawyers.html
Stanford Lawyers

Time To Expose the Secrets of Corrupt Lawyers -

" Gov bids to expose lawyer pols' Secrets

January 6, 2010

ALBANY -- Legislators who moonlight for fat-cat law firms, such as top Dems Sheldon Silver and John Sampson, would be forced to make their client lists public under an ethics-reform package unveiled yesterday by Gov. Paterson.

The governor's proposal would, for the first time, require the state's 212 "part-time" lawmakers to detail all outside business relationships, including those who perform legal work on the side.
The plan comes two days after The Post revealed that Sampson, the Senate Democratic leader, recently joined a Manhattan personal-injury law firm with ties to the powerful trial lawyers lobby. Silver, the Assembly speaker, also has an oft-criticized side job as "of counsel" to a top law firm.

Paterson's ethics bill, which he plans to highlight in his State of the State Address today, rejects arguments that disclosing more about those relationships would violate attorney-client privilege.
"The general rule would be that clients would have to be disclosed," said Paterson's chief counsel, Peter Kiernan. "Just as when you get in court, it's all a matter of public record. We're just making it public somewhat earlier."

While lawyer-legislators don't have to reveal their clients, private businessmen serving in the Legislature must disclose with whom they do business if they are receiving checks directly from those clients.

However, a businessman could incorporate as a "consulting firm," for instance, in order to hide his clients, who make payments to the firm and not directly to the lawmaker.

A 2008 study by the New York Law Journal found 39 members of the 150-seat Assembly and 19 members of the 62-seat Senate have law degrees.

The sweeping legislation also would throw out the current ethics monitoring system and create a new commission to investigate everything from campaign-finance scofflaws to violations of open meetings law.

It contained two proposals similar to reforms advocated by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo: Giving the AG authority to probe corruption cases and creating a board to oversee the state's pension fund.

The bill would also strip pensions from public officials who have been convicted of a felony.
Lawmakers said the plan was unrealistic and faulted Paterson for not taking part in recent ethics talks. "If the governor is going to continue down this path, he's going to go down it alone," said one Senate Democrat.

Lawmakers have been scrambling to come up with an ethics deal since former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno's federal corruption conviction last month.

Bruno had taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees from companies with interests before the state -- but would not have been required to reveal his clients had he been a lawyer.

Proposals backed by Silver and Sampson would require lawmakers to provide greater detail about outside earnings, but would exempt lawyers -- the job held by the vast majority of legislators with outside work -- from detailing clients.

The governor's plan would allow the new ethics board to shield the names of clients in circumstances where disclosure might jeopardize their safety or right to fair representation."

Source
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/
local/gov_bids_to_expose_lawyer_pols_ecrets_tKr9BJdmvVleAWgaR4k8yO

Do You Wonder Why the Florida State Bar and the Florida Supreme Court Protects Christopher Wheeler of Proskauer Rose?

Christopher Wheeler is definately One of those Rotten Apples that Jesse Diner of the Florida State Bar seems to think is So Rare on Florida.

Christopher Wheeler of Proskauer Rose in Boca Raton Florida, well he is most likely owed a Whole Heap of Favors. I mean when a DUI with Injury Comes along, or a Thousand Documents of Proof VERY incriminating on a Trillion Dollar Patent Theft Case, or a Need to Throw Out Evidence Comes along, I sure would want to call in a Favor of Two wouldn't you ?

And Boy would I be thankful for the indiscretions I had once looked over on the Grievance Committee for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit.

Suppose these owed Favors were from letting Attorneys off in the Past, or Favors owed to Judges or Clerks from years Ago... Now say if you had been a former member of the Grievance Committee for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit YOU can pretty much Guarantee you have a lot of favors coming to you Right? And boy do pity those who would dare NOT honor those favors and what you must know about them...

Well Christopher Wheeler was a former member of the Grievance Committee for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. And you Can bet he has Lots of Secrets, just as the Florida State Bar is NOW blatantly over looking the Iviewit Claims, Not Allowing Evidence, ignoring the Conflict of Interest of Greenberg Traurig, and deliberately allowing injustice to protect Christopher Wheeler, Kenneth Rubenstein and the Law Firm Proskauer Rose LLP. ... Well I am Sure this has happened for decades and Well I am Sure lots of favors are Owed OTHER wise it would make no sense to Ignore PROOF on top of PROOF to protect an Attorney in a Case this HUGE.....

Source of Facts on this Matter...
http://www.proskauer.com/professionals/christopher-wheeler/

Greenberg Traurig Web Stats - Greenberg Traurig here at 3:44 as soon as Post Went up about their Above the Law tactics..

Miami, Florida, United States
Greenberg Traurig (69.25.8.138)
Greenberg Traurig

Greenberg Traurig, they sure seem to be interested in this Blog, but is anyone interested in Them.

Greenberg Traurig is above the Law, Above Ethics and who cares, Attorneys have all the power and the justice system seems to have no real need for the Truth.

Greenberg Traurig represents the Florida Bar right? as in Toady's Headlines where Jesse Diner claims ONE BAD APPLE.. .. to funny .. but yes he had the Balls to Say it...

Greenberg Traurig seems to be Behind a whole lot of Evil Goin' on Down there in the State of Florida.

Greenberg Traurig is friends of Abramoff Right? And Greenberg Traurig has a bit to do with the Stanford scandal Right?

And Come on How Blatant Can you Get about your Total Disregard for the "Conflict of Interest Thing" When Greenberg Traurig Represented Iviewit somehow right?

I mean didn't Greenberg Traurig do a patent review for the Iviewit Technology Company as retained counsel and then in a Blatant Above the Law and in Total dis-Regard of Conflicts of Interest and Attorney Ethics they turned around and then Represented the Florida State Bar against the Iviewit Company, Hmmmm..

this stuff is So Blatant and So Obvious.

That there is No Way you could ever wonder if the State of Florida holds attorneys accountable, Holds Attorneys to ANY kind of ethics, the Florida State Bar does NOT care about conflicts of interest... it is all about protecting their own asses and We the People, Who Cares About them?

Greenberg Traurig is not accountable for Conflicts of Interest so No Wonder the Florida State Bar is NOT accountable and no Wonder Jesse Diner thinks there is only "one Rotten apple"...

Florida State Bar, Greenberg Traurig

Greenberg Traurig Faces Investigation Over Heller Ehrman Representation

"June 3, 2009

Greenberg Traurig is facing an investigation stemming from the firm's work in the run-up to Heller Ehrman's bankruptcy filing. The Recorder's Amanda Royal cites a filing in the bankruptcy and an attorney representing Heller's creditors committee in today's story.

Royal writes: "At issue is Greenberg's apparent failure to discover that Heller's biggest creditor, Bank of America, had terminated its security interest in the firm. Lawyers familiar with the matter say that Heller, which retained Greenberg last summer, would have had much better leverage with its banks and other creditors if it had known BofA wasn't a secured creditor and may have even been able to avoid bankruptcy."

Michael St. James, a solo bankruptcy practitioner representing a group of vested retirees who are among Heller's creditors told Royal, "You have to imagine that if Heller had known [the bank's situation] for months before, it might have negotiated a much more orderly dissolution, and one that would have caused much less pain to everyone involved."

BofA has characterized the termination of its security interest in the firm as a "clerical error." The bank has been sued by Heller's other creditors, who want BofA to return $51 million paid to it by Heller in the 90 days leading up to the bankruptcy filing.

Sources close to the case told Royal that Greenberg's failure to search Heller's public Uniform Commercial Code filings when it was first retained midyear last year is the main issue under investigation.

Greenberg Traurig responded to a request for comment with a statement.

"As previously disclosed in Greenberg Traurig 's retention papers, we were advised that the creditors' committee believes there should be a review of the firm's representation of Heller Ehrman prior to the bankruptcy," the statement said. "We have not yet...been contacted... with respect to any investigation concerning the pre-bankruptcy services our firm provided. We are proud of the results we have achieved and the work we have done, and continue to do, for Heller Ehrman."

Source:
http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/United%20States%20District%20Court%20Southern%20District%20NY/20090603%20Greenberg%20Traurig%20Investigation.pdf
Greenberg Traurig

Restructuring Attorney, Bankruptcy Attorney, AIG and More..

Coming Soon..

Greenberg Traurig - Is Greenberg Traurig John Grisham's 'The Firm'?

"Remember John Grisham's classic legal drama The Firm? Remember how slick lawyer Avery Tolar (played by Gene Hackman in the movie) and his firm helped criminal clients? The hidden files in the Caymans?

That's just the kind of association a big, respected law firm wants nothing to do with.

But a report this morning explains how Greenberg Traurig's work for Allen Stanford in Antigua may have helped the disgraced financier perpetuate his alleged $7 billion fraud.

Miami Herald: Though not under criminal investigation, Greenberg Traurig is facing a legal review of its actions on this tiny island that was the center of his banking kingdom.

The court-appointed receiver trying to recover money for victims is demanding records of the legal work provided to the disgraced banker -- including that of Greenberg. The effort is the latest by the receiver to untangle the complex deals spun by Stanford as well as the conduct of his lawyers.

The demand for the records has put a rare spotlight on Greenberg Traurig and another firm, Hunton & Williams, which now holds the records.

Basically, the article explains how Greenberg "propelled Stanford's business interests and helped rescue him from crisis," keeping the U.S.-Antigua link -- a "money pipeline" -- open.

When the U.S. considered blacklisting all offshore institutions in Antigua -- cutting off access to U.S. currency -- a task force was convened to avert shutting banks down. On the committee was Greenberg lawyer Patrick O'Brien; Stanford's Antigua hub stayed alive. Another lawyer, Yolanda Suarez, left Greenberg to become Stanford's legal counsel.

The Herald sought interviews with five lawyers who represented Stanford while working for the firm, but only two responded, both declining comment because of confidentiality reasons, saying they were "simply giving legal support and were unaware of any illegal schemes by Stanford."

As the article notes, U.S. investigators have had a hard time tracing the millions that flowed from the U.S. to Antigua. That's been complicated by Hunton & Williams, who took over as Stanford's counsel after Greenberg.

The court receiver is pushing for more information, but Hunton & Williams, who now has the Antigua files, doesn't want to give them up for confidentiality reasons. ``There are legal issues regarding jurisdiction and client privilege that must be resolved before we proceed further,'' Eleanor Kerlow, a spokeswoman for Hunton & Williams told the Herald.

Judge David Godbey in Houston is expected to decide whether the firm must comply.

Regardless, we wonder if John Grisham is taking note. With a few embellishments -- an extortion here, a murder there -- he could have a another big book. "
Greenberg Traurig
Source
http://www.businessinsider.com/is-greenberg-traurig-john-grishams-the-firm-2009-10
Greenberg Traurig