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, June 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (OTC: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: and .
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 .
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 .
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