Patent Office filings are shuffled out the USPTO backdoor to crony lawyers, banks and deep-pocket clients
McNamara essentially admitted that he had the conflicts, but that the rules absolve him (in other words, the rules allow cheating and deception!). He also said she cannot represent herself pro se and must hire an authorized attorney, which is illegal. Instead of just withdrawing from the case, he imposed self-serving rules that will enable him to stay in the game and muzzle further complaints about his conflicts, citing a flurry of rules to hide behind, like recalcitrant judges always do. So much for the Code of Conduct Canon 2—avoid the appearance of impropriety.
Rader was a law student of Professor James P. Chandler, the attorney now implicated in the theft of Leader Technologies' patent in Leader v. Facebook. Chandler was IBM's chief outside counsel. He worked directly with David J. Kappos at IBM in the founding of The Eclipse Foundation on Nov. 29, 2001, just as Leader Technologies' social networking innovations were coming off the drawing board. Chandler was ostensibly protecting Leader's intellectual property and introduced Leader to Battelle Labs, Livermore Labs, Boston Scientific, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and Fenwick & West LLP. Magically, Facebook hatched 18 months later and Leader, Chandler's and Fenwick's client, was iced out of the market. Fenwick started filing patents for Facebook in 2007 (without disclosing Leader's prior art). Barack Obama announced his candidacy on Facebook in 2007. Kappos was appointed director of the Patent office in 2009. IBM sold 750 patents to Facebook a month before the public offering, a month after Kappos ordered the 3rd Leader reexamination. Fenwick took Facebook public in 2012. The smell of dead fish is pronounced.
and is likely TOXIC to your property rights and the Rule of Law. (Hover over picture for name; Click to enlarge.)
You do the math. 78% are lawyers.
ORIGINAL POST
(Nov. 26, 2014)—AFI investigators have wondered how certain judges, bureaucrats and politicians acquire sudden wealth after attaining high office. It’s either pure genius, or fraud. Turns out it’s mostly fraud, at least in the cases we have investigated: Leader v. Facebook and Pi-Net v. JPMorgan.
We see the same patterns in Ceglia v. Zuckerberg and Rembrandt v. Facebook. The list of go to-attorneys for this Cartel is a tight little group associated with their adviser, Professor James P. Chandler. Chandler appears to be running the show from his perch on the Potomac. Tom Clancy couldn’t make this up.
First we’ll describe how we believe they did it, then we’ll give hard data retrieved from the government’s archives to prove it. Thanks to librarians from a prominent law school for their assistance. Since a picture is worth a 1000 words, Fig. 2 is an illustration of how Leader Technologies’ attorneys Professor James P. Chandler and Fenwick & West LLP (Gordon K. Davidson) led the heist.
The Scene of the Crime:
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Several documents that were generated at the scene of this crime were available in plain sight, once we knew where to look.
OGE Acting Director F. Gary Davis introduced a tortured 13-page Gruberesque advisory on mutual funds that opened the floodgates
On Aug. 25, 2000, F. Gary Davis, 21-year veteran and acting director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) issued a tortured 13-page advisory opinion on mutual fund reporting. This advisory introduced the ludicrous notion that fund manager writings in prospectuses (and not actual fund holdings) would govern decisions about disclosing potentially conflicting stocks in a mutual fund. Given the notoriously known penchant for brokers to lie, surely Davis’ 21-years of experience told him this was a bad idea. Was David lining his retirement pockets with Cartel favors?
Following on Davis’ heals seven months later, on Mar. 14, 2001, the U.S. Judicial Conference introduced sweeping changes to the Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees. These changes cleared the way for federal employees in the justice system to use Davis’ ethics advisory to hide their stock in litigants under a euphemistically defined “safe harbor” exemption.
Here’s when senior administration lawyers started fleecing America:
Aug. 25, 2000—Tortured 13-page Mutual Fund OGE Advisory, Memorandum re. Mutual Funds by F. Gary Davis, Acting Director, U.S. Office of Government Ethics opened the floodgates for what has become widespread non-reporting of holdings.
4 months later . . .
Jan. 18, 2001—Bill Clinton appointed Professor James P. Chandler to the National Infrastructure Assurance Council (NIAC), White House Press Release, Jan. 18, 2001; gave Chandler the platform to argue that stealing Leader Technologies' invention was for the national good (as well as good for his other client, IBM).
2 months later . . .
Mar. 14, 2001--Sweeping Judicial Conference Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees changes, Report of Proceedings of the U.S. Judicial Conference. Approving these changes were Eric H. Holder, Judge Sue L. Robinson (Pi-Net v. JPMorgan judge), and Federal Circuit Clerk of Court Jan Horbaly (managed docket censorship of Pi-Net filings in Leader v. Facebook)
2 weeks later . . .
On Mar. 28, 2001—Washington, D.C. Conference on Intellectual Property, sponsored by Professor James P. Chandler, supported by David J. Kappos, IBM, Eric H. Holder, Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Justice Department and Boston Scientific.
During the next 6 months, Chandler recommended Leader Technologies relationships with Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Battelle Laboratory, Fenwick & West LLP. Source: US Courts, Leader v. Facebook.
On Aug. 7, 2001, Chandler joined the board of Eurotech, Ltd. comprised of former senior government Energy Department officials looking to exploit homeland security opportunities. According to sources, Chandler said nothing to Leader nor sought a conflicts waiver on this relationship, even though he was engaged in Energy Dept. projects with Leader at WPAFB, LLNL and Battelle regarding Leader's inventions.
On Aug. 20, 2001, we have verified that Leader entered a legal services agreement with Fenwick & West LLP at Chandler’s recommendation. No conflicts waivers have been sought by Fenwick, especially before they began representing Facebook.
On Nov. 29, 2001, Chandler assisted David Kappos and IBM to form The Eclipse Foundation; said nothing to Leader about the conflict. Source: Eclipse press announcement.
Table 1: The Great Mutual Fund Scam Timeline and supporting documents.
Hard evidence of this collusion between deep-pocket patent infringers and patent judges
For example, Patent Judge Brian J. McNamara holds up to $3 million in mutual fund stocks. He currently presides over a series of “patent reexaminations” triggered by mega patent infringers JPMorgan and SAP against Internet pioneer Dr. Lakshmi Arunachalam’s. Judge McNamara makes $150,000 per year in salary. Clearly he suffers from sudden-onset investing genius. Click here to read her latest request for an impartial tribunal.
Click here to jump to previous post revealing Judge Leonard P. Stark's holdings and conflicts of interest in Leader and Pi-Net litigants.
Longtime Federal Circuit Judge Alan D. Lourie in the Leader v. Facebook judicial corruption scandal is worth up to $15 million. How do they do it? Are they that much smarter?
The Great Mutual Fund Scam
Dr. Arunachalam writes about this Great Mutual Fund Scam in her latest patent office complaints about Judge Brian J. McNamara bias. Or, click here for that filing.
In Fig. 4 we include the related timeline for Leader v. Facebook events. The koinky dinks are off the charts now that the modus operandi is evident.
Cartel Objectives: IBM’s “The Internet of Things” (monitor everything including toasters) and extend NSA snooping capabilities using Leader's and Pi-Net's inventions
IBM and Microsoft figure prominently in this heist. The judges in Leader’s unprecedented 3rd patent reexam ordered by Kappos are all IBM and Microsoft cronies. In fact the chief judge, Stephen C. Siu, worked for both IBM and Microsoft, according to Siu's newly acquired financial disclosures. The patent judges between them have issued almost 100 patents to IBM, Microsoft and Xerox. Judge Siu’s failed to disclose his newly discovered holdings in Fidelity Contrafund (his largest single holding).
Judge McNamara holds Fidelity Contrafund as does Eric H. Holder, John G. Roberts, Jr. and three of the four Leader v. Facebook judges, Kimberly A. Moore (she sold it after the IPO, but held it during the Leader v. Facebook proceedings), Evan J. Wallach and Leonard P. Stark (though his Fidelity funds of funds).
Educated Bandits
America appears to be run by people who are little more than educated bandits.
Stay tuned.
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