Alan Amron, echangingbarcode, LLC v. MLB, MLB ADVANCED MEDIA (MLBAM), Live Nation Entertainment (LNE), StubHub, and 30 national baseball teams and event stadiums (LNE and STUBHUB noticed as Voluntarily terminated by the Plaintiff) and Does I-X

CourtDistrict Court, S.D. New York
DecidedSeptember 18, 2025
Docket1:24-cv-02930
StatusUnknown

This text of Alan Amron, echangingbarcode, LLC v. MLB, MLB ADVANCED MEDIA (MLBAM), Live Nation Entertainment (LNE), StubHub, and 30 national baseball teams and event stadiums (LNE and STUBHUB noticed as Voluntarily terminated by the Plaintiff) and Does I-X (Alan Amron, echangingbarcode, LLC v. MLB, MLB ADVANCED MEDIA (MLBAM), Live Nation Entertainment (LNE), StubHub, and 30 national baseball teams and event stadiums (LNE and STUBHUB noticed as Voluntarily terminated by the Plaintiff) and Does I-X) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering District Court, S.D. New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
Alan Amron, echangingbarcode, LLC v. MLB, MLB ADVANCED MEDIA (MLBAM), Live Nation Entertainment (LNE), StubHub, and 30 national baseball teams and event stadiums (LNE and STUBHUB noticed as Voluntarily terminated by the Plaintiff) and Does I-X, (S.D.N.Y. 2025).

Opinion

Live-Fi™ Technology Holdings A 7302 Woodstone Circle Princeton, N] 08540 amyg@live-fi.com 917-733-9981

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

a Alan Amron, echangingbarcode, LLC, Case No. 24-CV-2930 (PAE) Plaintiffs, V. NOTICE OF MOTION TO INTERVENE FRCP §24(a)(b) ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED

MLB, MLB ADVANCED MEDIA (MLBAM), Live Nation Entertainment (LNE), StubHub, and 30 national baseball teams and event stadiums (LNE and STUBHUB noticed as Voluntarily terminated by the Plaintiff) and Does I-X, Defendants. aX

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on September 23, 2025 in the Chambers of Hon. Paul A. Engelmayer at 40 Foley Square Room 2201, an annex of the main US District Court Southern District of New York courthouse located at 500 Pearl Street, NY 10007, proposed interventor

LIVE-Fi® TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, by its California counsel Amy Weissbrod Gurvey previously granted pro hac vice status by this Court}, will move to intervene in this lawsuit pursuant to FRCP 24(a)(b) to protect its interests. Bridgeport v Delmonte, 602 F. 3d 469 at 473 (2d Cir. 2010).

LIVE-F1®, proposed intervenor, is the priority patent holder of standard essential US apparatus and method patents and registered copyrights that enable “non-ticketing businesses” at defendant Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s owned, serviced and operated event venues 2, US Patent Nos. 11403566, D6479108S, 7603321. TXu001265644. Non-ticketing businesses” is a term defined in the 2010 DC District Court consent decree and competitive impact statement and Amended Judgment entered January 2020 and defendants MLB and MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) are venture partners or licensees of defendants Live Nation and Ticketmaster who are contumaciously defying these mandates since 2010 and also infringing LIVE-F1® patents.

The first LIVE-Fi® ticketing management patents issued in 2009 and 2011 much before the plaintiff herein Alan Amron moved for his own competing patent. Plaintiff Amron improperly failed to cite to LIVE-Fi@’s first two published and issued patents with willful blindness and in bad faith. This fact could prevent enforcement of Amron’s 2015 patent or otherwise cause invalidation of the patent by the USPTO that plaintiff is seeking to enforce herein.

In addition, LIVE-Fi® patents are also being used without permission by defendants MLB and MLB Advanced Media since 2011.

and 35+ US States v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., 24cv3973 (SDNY)(AS) 2 US v. Live Nation and Ticketmaster, 2010 WL 975407, 975408 (January 25, 2010), Amended Judgment entered January 8, 2020, still in full force and effect against the reorganized merged entity defendant Live Nation Entertainment (LNE).

There is no such thing as laches and the issued patents remain enforceable. SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, 187 8. Ct. 954 (2017).

Moreover, at all times relevant, defendant MLB was being represented before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) by the same practitioners representing LIVE-F1® and its counsel at Cowan Liebowitz & Latman. Commissioner of Patents Wynn Coggins opened a conflicts of interest, abandonment and withholding investigation sua sponte and violations were found. 37 CFR §§2.10, 2.19, 10.66, 11.108. 11.116.

Defendants MLB, MLBAM and its thirty national baseball teams have signed contracts with defendant Ticketmaster and StubHub that force ticket consumers to release unrestricted use of ticket data to Ticketmaster.

In addition, LIVE-Fi® regrets that it must seek recusal of magistrate Robyn Tarnofsky, a former state court officer who is well aware of LIVE-Fi®’s priority ticketing management patents and that the patents cover claims seeking to be enforced by plaintiff Amron. It is argued that Magistrate serve in any judicial capacity in this lawsuit because she was serving as the senior staff attorney at the NY Legal Assistance Group, a NYS agency serving as the pro se help unit for the SDNY at 40 Foley Square, during the time that the SDNY improperly refused to grant LIVE-Fi® patent discovery, infringement and inducing infringement hearings against defendants Live Nation and Cowan Liebowitz & Latman in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. LIVE- Fi sought the assistance of the NYLAG and signed seven retainer agreements with NYS. This matter is on mandamus petition to the US Supreme Court. Docket #24-7441.

Ms. Tarnofsky told LIVE-Fi®’s California counsel that the court would not grant an infringement or an inducing infringement hearings against defendant Live Nation or the Cowan firm and she would not assist LIVE-F1®’s counsel in pursuing constitutional rights to get infringement hearings or damages on any claim for which an issued patent is a condition precedent. As it turns out the State of New York harbored conflicts of interest caused several officers who were the Cowan and Live Nation’s defense attorneys at Hinshaw & Culbertson, dually serving as staff counsel to the First Dept. without disclosing conflicts of interest.

One week ago, on September 5, 2025, the Northern District of NY Chief Judge, Hon. Brenda Sannes in 24cv211, issued an injunction against NYS court officers to produce the complete files including those found corrupted ex parte by attorneys for Live Nation and the Cowan firm at Hinshaw & Culbertson. A First Dept. order was entered April 21, 2016 ordering permanent concealment of all state files including those corrupted by defendants. Those documents prove forgery crimes not protected by immunity because Weissbrod Gurvey is not admitted in NYS and warrant disbarment. US v. Reich, 479 F. 3d 179 (2d Cir. 2007)

The USPTO Commissioner of Patents Wynn Coggins sua sponte opened an investigation over seven years against the Cowan Liebowitz & Latman practitioners and found conflict of interest and abandonment violations. Results were required to be served on LIVE-Fi and its counsel under the Administrative Procedures Act, 5 USC 500-596 (APA) The results were never served nor were they ordered in patent discovery by the SDNY after a mandate by the 2d Circuit in 2012. 462 Fed. Appx. 26.

Both defendant Live Nation and the Cowan practitioner hired Hinshaw & Culbertson and Supple as defense attorneys before the SDNY in 2011 when that firm could never accept defense of the Cowan lawyers (NY’s Judiciary Law Part 1240.6d). Supple was identified in a First Dept. order as the individual manufacturing and inserting forged and unserved fraudulent documents into “ordered concealed” state files that were circulated ex parte to this Court to deprive LIVE-Fi® of patent discovery and infringement hearings. The ex parte proffers were never ordered served on LIVE-F1® or its counsel in violation of ABA Rule 2.9 on Ex parte Communications. The acts caused further conflicts with NYS officers of the courts, one of whom was Ms. Tarnofsky.

In the parallel antitrust and divestiture lawsuit currently pending before this Court against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, 24cv3973, defendant Live Nation Entertainment, the merged entity is being defended by Cravath Swain and Moore where Ms. Tarnofsky’s husband Antony Ryan, is a partner.

WHEREFORE,

(1) The bad faith acts of the plaintiff Alan Amron prove willful blindness of published LIVE-Fi® patents and pending patents that were delayed for enforcement based on the Commissioner’s investigation.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

Related

Trbovich v. United Mine Workers
404 U.S. 528 (Supreme Court, 1972)
Stump v. Sparkman
435 U.S. 349 (Supreme Court, 1978)
Forrester v. White
484 U.S. 219 (Supreme Court, 1988)
Bridgeport Guardians, Inc. v. Delmonte
602 F.3d 469 (Second Circuit, 2010)
Mindys Cosmetics, Inc. v. Dakar
611 F.3d 590 (Ninth Circuit, 2010)
Williams v. Citigroup Inc.
659 F.3d 208 (Second Circuit, 2011)
Gurvey v. Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
462 F. App'x 26 (Second Circuit, 2012)
United States v. Perry Reich
479 F.3d 179 (Second Circuit, 2007)
Wyeth v. Kappos
591 F.3d 1364 (Federal Circuit, 2010)

Cite This Page — Counsel Stack

Bluebook (online)
Alan Amron, echangingbarcode, LLC v. MLB, MLB ADVANCED MEDIA (MLBAM), Live Nation Entertainment (LNE), StubHub, and 30 national baseball teams and event stadiums (LNE and STUBHUB noticed as Voluntarily terminated by the Plaintiff) and Does I-X, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/alan-amron-echangingbarcode-llc-v-mlb-mlb-advanced-media-mlbam-live-nysd-2025.