Dr. Thomas E. Sawyer Wants the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to Start Over on a Petition by Apple to Invalidate the Strong Patents that Voip-Pal Holds, and that Are Being Infringed by Major Telecom and Technology Companies
SANDY, UT / ACCESSWIRE / July 24, 2017 / Dr. Thomas E. Sawyer, former CEO of MESA Corporation, Inc., NACT Telecommunications, Inc., Innova Enterprises, Inc, and other companies, and former advisor to Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, today explains why he is continuing to question the U.S Patent Trial and Appeal Board's treatment of a Seattle, Washington-based company, Voip-Pal.com Inc. (OTCQB: VPLM), in a key patent case.
As Dr. Sawyer has described in a recent interview with Stock-Sector.com and in a news report from CEOCFO magazine, Voip-Pal holds key patents on making telephone calls and sending messages over the Internet. Every time someone places a call over the Internet or sends a text, the routing and billing is handled by Voip-Pal's technology. But those patents are being knowingly infringed by major companies like Apple, AT&T, Verizon, and Twitter, charge both Dr. Sawyer and Voip-Pal's CEO & Director, Emil Malak.
That's why Voip-Pal has sued Apple, AT&T, and Verizon for $7 billion, and then later sued Twitter, as well.
Apple responded by petitioning the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board to rule that the patents are invalid.
Dr. Sawyer initially protested that the administrative judges slated to hear the case were biased because of past ties to Apple or other companies. And in fact, the original three judges have been removed from the case.
But that "does not resolve the problem," Dr. Sawyer wrote in a July 11, 2017 follow-up letter to David Ruschke, chief judge for the Patient Trial and Appeal Board. Once a petition is instituted, he points out, the Patent Office's own statistics show that "there is an overwhelming likelihood that a patent will have...some or all of its claims found to be un-patentable."
As a result, rather than simply hearing Apple's case with the new judges, Dr. Sawyer argues, the Patent Trial and Review Board must go back to the beginning. It must decide again whether to institute Apple's petition in the first place, he insists. That is the only way to give Voip-Pal a fair hearing and to ensure that "the company is made whole," he writes.
Contact:
Dr. Thomas E. Sawyer
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SOURCE: Voip-Pal