Max Sound Provides update on
Attia vs
Google:
Court Grants
Attia Leave to Amend
the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt
Organization Act (RICO) Claim
San
Diego, CA --
June 20,
2018 -- InvestorsHub
NewsWire -- Max Sound
Corporation (MAXD)
provides
the
following update
regarding
the Attia
litigation
against
Google and other related
defendants.
In the
United States District Court Northern District of
California in the matter
of Attia
et al v.
Google LLC et al, on June 13, 2018
the Court
granted Attia
Leave to
Amend the Racketeering
Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) Claim on or before
August 13, 2018.
Background of
the Attia
vs.
Google case:
In July
2017,
the
Company engaged the expert services of Christian, Smith
& Jewell (CSJ) and
G.
Robert Blakey,
the author and nation's
foremost authority on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organization Act (RICO), and
for the
drafting of the RICO Claim. Soon thereafter, the
Law
Firm
Buether
Joe &
Carpenter LLC filed a Fourth Amended Complaint against Defendants
Google, Inc., Flux Factory, Inc., Larry Page, Sergey
Brin,
Sebastian Thrun,
Eric "Astro"
Teller, Michelle Kaufmann, Jennifer Carlile,
Augusto Roman, Nicholas Chim,
and DOES 1-100. The fourth amended filing is a Motion for Leave to
add Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO)
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1961, et
seq.
In May 2014, MAXD
entered into a representation agreement with world
renowned
architect
Eli Attia
giving
MAXD the exclusive right to pursue claims on his
behalf against violators
of Attia's
intellectual property
rights. The lawsuit was filed
on
December 5, 2014, in the Superior Court
of California, County of Santa Clara, against Google, its
co-founders Sergey Brin
and Larry
Page, Google's spinoff company Flux Factory, and senior
executives of Flux
alleging among other causes of
action misappropriation of
trade secrets and
breach of
contract. The lawsuit contends that Google and the other Defendants
stole Mr. Attia's
trade
secrets, proprietary information, and know-how regarding a
revolutionary architecture design and building process that he
alone had invented, known as Engineered Architecture
which
Google called Genie before it changed the name to
Flux.
Defendants
engaged Attia
to
translate his architectural technology into software for a proof of
concept, based on decades of
his life's work with the goal of
determining at that point whether to continue with full-scale
development of Attia's
project.
The lawsuit
alleges
that
once Attia
had
disclosed the trade secrets and proprietary information
which
Google
needed to
bring the technology to market, they severed ties with
Attia
and
continued to use his technology without a license and without
compensation in order to bring the technology to market
without
him. Google valued the
project at $120 billion dollars a year.
Google
later spun-out the business, and the new company
was
renamed
Flux Factory which is substantially
funded and has grown to 800
employees according
to
an
interview with one if its founders.
Plaintiffs seek a
permanent injunction against the
defendants, punitive
damages, and
restitution.
About G. Robert
Blakey:
George Robert Blakey
is an
American attorney and law professor. He is the author and
nation's foremost authority on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organization Act (RICO), teaches criminal law and procedure,
federal criminal law and procedure, terrorism,
and jurisprudence at Notre Dame Law School. Prof.
Blakey's
extensive
legislative drafting experience resulted in the passage of the
Crime Control Act of 1973, the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1970
and the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Title IX of which is
known as "RICO". He has been personally involved in drafting and
implementing RICO-type legislation in 22 of the more than 30 states
that have enacted racketeering laws. He frequently argues in or
consults on cases involving RICO statutes at both the federal and
state levels, including several cases before the United States
Supreme Court. Read more: Professor Blakey
Bio and CV.
About Buether Joe &
Carpenter: Buether
Joe &
Carpenter, LLC is an intellectual property and commercial
litigation boutique law firm focusing on patent, copyright,
trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition lawsuits, as well
as antitrust, contract and other business disputes for both
plaintiffs and defendants. BJC offers clients the expertise of
attorneys with decades of experience in handling complex litigation
in an effective and efficient manner. For more information,
visit www.bjciplaw.com.
About Christian, Smith & Jewell: Christian,
Smith & Jewell (CSJ) stands out as a premier law firm in the
Houston legal community. CSJ takes pride in handling tough cases,
both large and small in state and federal courts across the United
States and abroad. CSJ excels in all types of civil litigation,
including shareholder and partnership disputes, stock fraud,
commercial, oil and gas, real estate, lender liability/debtor
litigation, loan work outs, director's liability
litigation/arbitration, structured settlements, construction law,
personal injury, and international arbitration/litigation. For more
information, visit www.csj-law.com.
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Corporation: As creators of the
acclaimed MAX-D HD Audio, Max Sound can provide a better solution
for Audio, Video and Data transmissions. Max Sound Corporation is
the company that brings forth technologies for the betterment of
our world, including being co-owners of the Optimized Data
Transmission Technology patent portfolio. Max Sound, MAXD and MAX-D
Audio Perfected and HD Audio are registered trademarks. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners. To learn
more about the MAX-D Technology, please visit http://maxd.audio.
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