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Jovancevic Docket History And Origination Trace

JOVANCEVIC DOCKET HISTORY & ORIGINATION TRACE

Prepared: April 11, 2026 Source: Native .eml (Martha Long 6/24/2025), EMAIL_METADATA_ND0002.csv, All 7digit Matters.csv, Updated Master Originated Clients.csv, RL_RESP_CLIENT_SUMMARY.csv, NGM_Litman_Workup.xlsx, Google Patents, nathlaw phone photos OCR Finding: #71 (updated 04/11/2026 — date confirmed, docket traced, client identified, complete June 2025 thread reconstructed)


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

A pre-merger Litman Law Offices (LLO) client returned to NGM in June 2025 — drawn by Litman's name — and NGM opened new business under "RCL origination credit" at the exact moment Goldberg was preparing to eliminate Litman's email access and suppress financial reporting. The complete thread is now in our corpus. This is the seventh named goodwill client and the single most temporally devastating origination-credit exhibit in the case.


1. THE PATENT: US 9,699,663

Field Value
Patent Number US 9,699,663 B1
Title Spectrum sharing system
Inventor Kathryn Jovancevic (Individual)
Application 15/049,305
Filed February 22, 2016
Issued July 4, 2017
Firm Litman Law Offices, Ltd. (LLO) — pre-merger
Docket 32772.00
Technology CBRS / 3.5 GHz spectrum sharing (RF wireless + radar coexistence, 3100-3650 MHz band)

Abstract: A Spectrum Sharing System (SSS) allowing RF wireless mobile and fixed devices to operate in the 3100-3650 MHz frequency band while simultaneously protecting radar operations from interference. Uses spectrum sensing, GPS data, and database technology.


2. THE ORIGINAL CLIENT: KATHRYN JOVANCEVIC

Field Value
Client Name Jovancevic, Kathryn
Client Number 135897
Docket 32772.00
Address 10007 Terry Street, Fairfax, VA 22031
Email nva_land@verizon.net
Phone (703) 591-2273
Responsible Attorney Richard Litman (RL)
Origination Credit RL: 100.0000% (from RL_RESP_CLIENT_SUMMARY.csv)
Referral Source RL
Client Opened May 12, 2017 (1 month after Combination Agreement)
Matter Count 1 (docket 32772.00)
Invoices 2 — $30.00 on 7/13/2017 (#257108); $0.00 on 9/7/2018 (#271279)
Revenue in NGM Workup (6/15/20+) $0.00 (all columns zero in Totals sheet row 720)

3. THE NEW CLIENT: STEVAN JOVANCEVIC (June 2025)

Field Value
Client Name Stevan Jovancevic ("Steve Jova")
Client Number 201081 (new)
Docket 201081.00G ("General Matter")
Email sjova100@gmail.com
Relationship to Kathryn Presumably family (same last name, same address area, same patent)
Subject Matter Patent transfer / assignment of US 9,699,663 + new CBRS/spectrum work
Origination Credit RCL (Martha Long explicit email instruction)
Assigned Internally "Nick is handling" (Francisco Ley, Docketing Specialist, cc'd on Work for Today)

4. THE COMPLETE JUNE 2025 THREAD (Chronological)

All dates from EMAIL_METADATA_ND0002.csv Bates-stamped production.

# Date/Time From To Subject Bates
1 6/10/25 14:16 Martha Long Steve Jova (sjova100@gmail.com); cc: clientservice@4patent.com RE: Patent Transfer Agreement ND0000182269
2 6/11/25 07:19 Martha Long Docketing NVA; Docketing Request for Phone Contact and to Assign Issued Patent -- Docket 32772.00 ND0000182302
3 6/12/25 06:55 Martha Long Steve Jova RE: Patent Transfer Agreement -- Docket 32772.00 ND0000219710 (folder 16)
4 6/23/25 14:03 Martha Long Steve Jova; James Lafave; cc: clientservice@4patent.com RE: New Engagement Agreement for Review ND0000182536
5 6/23/25 14:40 Steve Jova Martha Long Re: New Engagement Agreement for Review ND0000182537
6 6/23/25 14:42 Martha Long Steve Jova RE: New Engagement Agreement for Review (2 min turnaround)
7 6/23/25 ~14:24 Stephen Leon Accounting; cc: Lafave, Martha Long, Docketing Shared JOVANCEVIC - Check No. 131; JOVANCEVIC - Engagement Letter (signed) (within body of .eml)
8 6/24/25 06:39:35 Martha Long Docketing NVA; Docketing NEW CASE/NEW CLIENT-- General Matter -- 201081.00G/201081 -- Client Number "RCL origination credit" ND0000182551 (the Finding #71 .eml)
9 6/24/25 06:39:39 Martha Long Docketing NVA; Docketing; cc: Francisco Ley Work for Today -- June 24, 2025 — "1. Docket 201081.00G — New client and new case — Nick is handling" ND0000... (also IMG_1449)
10 6/24/25 12:16 Stephen Leon Martha Long; Docketing NVA; Docketing RE: CLIENT SHEET - Stevan Jovancevic - 201081; BLUE SHEET - Stevan Jovancevic - 201081 (confirms full name)
11 6/24/25 12:19 Stephen Leon Martha Long; Docketing NVA; Docketing RE: CLIENT SHEET - Stevan Jovancevic - 201081; BLUE SHEET - Stevan Jovancevic - 201081.00G (corrected to .00G)
12 6/24/25 17:25 Stephen Leon Martha Long; Docketing NVA; Docketing RE: Work for Today -- June 24, 2025 (end-of-day wrap)
13 7/2/25 15:49 Steve Jova Martha Long Re: New Engagement Agreement for Review ND0000182...
14 7/2/25 15:56 Martha Long Steve Jova RE: New Engagement Agreement for Review (7 min turnaround)

5. TEMPORAL SIGNIFICANCE — THE LATE-PERIOD WINDOW

Date Event
6/10/25 Litman demands "take me off the website" (Finding #33)
6/10/25 SAME DAY: Martha starts engaging Jovancevic (email #1)
6/10/25 SAME DAY: Goldberg to Litman — sarcastic "perhaps you should look into forensic accounting?" (ND0000182269 at 13:51)
6/11/25 Martha → Docketing: "Request for Phone Contact and to Assign Issued Patent -- Docket 32772.00"
6/12/25 Martha → Steve Jova: "RE: Patent Transfer Agreement -- Docket 32772.00"
6/15/25 SOL-safe date / contract termination
6/23/25 Steve Jova sends engagement letter + check via USPS
6/23/25 Stephen Leon receives via USPS; emails accounting
6/24/25 "RCL origination credit" email — THE .EML
6/25/25 Latest POA filing (Finding #79)
6/26/25 Litigation trigger — "that is the answer that gets you into litigation" (Finding #35)
7/2/25 Steve Jova follow-up (still working with NGM, post-litigation-trigger)
7/18/25 Email elimination (Finding #23)
7/22/25 Freedom Bank "Close Account" wire (Finding #101)
7/24/25 Latest confirmed name use — Hashtag Sports letter signed "Richard C. Litman" (Finding #70)

6. FIVE INDEPENDENT EVIDENTIARY VALUES

(a) Seventh Named Goodwill Client

Stevan Jovancevic joins Bennington (July 3, 2025 — Finding #24), Albannai (Aug 17, 2025 — Finding #25), Dvorkin (Sept 18, 2025 — Finding #32), Dakota Ag/Odland (Oct 8-9, 2024 — Finding #56), Dr. Al-Refaei (Nov 12, 2024 — Finding #65), and Stolyarova (Aug 4, 2025 — Finding #83) as a client drawn to NGM by Litman's name and reputation. The original engagement (Kathryn Jovancevic, 2016-2017) was with Litman Law Offices. The return engagement (Stevan Jovancevic, 2025) was to NGM — still trading on Litman's name ("RCL origination credit").

(b) Internal RCL Origination Mechanism — Caught Live

This is not retrospective Soluno coding. Martha Long's email is real-time matter-opening instruction with explicit "RCL origination credit" — the paralegal's contemporaneous judgment call on who originated the business. When compared to Finding #61 (98% of all 6,643 matters list Litman as referral source), this is the day-to-day mechanism by which the 98% figure was generated.

(c) Dormant Client Reactivation = Pure Goodwill

The NGM_Litman_Workup shows $0 revenue for docket 32772 after 6/15/2020. This client was dormant for ~5 years. Then the client returned — unprompted — because of the Litman name and reputation. A dormant-to-reactivated LLO client destroys any argument that Litman's name has no ongoing commercial value.

(d) clientservice@4patent.com Used for Client Intake

Martha Long cc'd clientservice@4patent.com on both the 6/10/25 and 6/23/25 emails to Steve Jovancevic. This is the @4patent.com domain (Litman's domain, DKIM-authenticated through NGM's M365 tenant — Finding #43) being used for client-facing intake communications on a Litman-originated matter. Each use is a separate § 51 publication per the deck-of-cards theory.

(e) 5 Attachments = Evidentiary Completeness

The native .eml contains the signed engagement letter (JOVANCEVIC - Engagement Letter signed.pdf), the client check (Check No. 131.pdf), and three technical specifications (WINNF-TS-0112, NTIA ESC SAS TM-18-527, IP/FCC Part 96 cross-reference table) — all confirming the subject matter continuity with the original LLO patent 9,699,663. No authentication challenge possible: the .eml is NGM's own internal production.


7. MARTHA LONG'S TYPO: "32770.00" vs. 32772.00

Martha wrote "Docket 32770.00" in the 6/24/25 email body. This is a single-digit transposition error. Confirmed by: - Martha's own 6/11/25 email: "Request for Phone Contact and to Assign Issued Patent -- Docket 32772.00" (ND0000182302) - Martha's own 6/12/25 email: "RE: Patent Transfer Agreement -- Docket 32772.00" (ND0000219710) - All 7digit Matters.csv row 3265: "Jovancevic, Kathryn" → client 135897 → docket 32772.00 → "Spectrum Sharing System" - Client-Docket Listing: line 903: 135897, 32772, "Jovancevic, Kathryn" - RL_RESP_CLIENT_SUMMARY.csv: 135897, "Jovancevic, Kathryn", 32772.00, "Spectrum Sharing System"

Docket 32770.00 actually belongs to Charles D. Gilliam / OKRA'S trademark (client 200331) — an entirely unrelated matter.


8. PEOPLE IDENTIFIED

Name Role Evidence
Kathryn Jovancevic Original inventor/patent holder (US 9,699,663) Client 135897, docket 32772.00
Stevan Jovancevic ("Steve Jova") New client, presumably family of Kathryn Client 201081, sjova100@gmail.com
Martha Long NGM paralegal — handled intake + origination coding .eml sender, thread participant
Stephen Leon NGM docketing specialist — received check + engagement letter .eml originator (forwarded thread), CLIENT SHEET / BLUE SHEET
Francisco "Nick" Ley NGM docketing specialist — assigned to handle new matter cc'd on Work for Today; "Nick is handling"
James Lafave NGM associate — cc'd on engagement review cc on 6/23 engagement email

9. DEPOSITION QUESTIONS (for Goldberg)

  1. "Mr. Goldberg, who was Kathryn Jovancevic a client of before NGM?"
  2. "Do you know why NGM coded the new Jovancevic matter 201081.00G as 'RCL origination credit'?"
  3. "Were you aware that Martha Long was engaging Steve Jovancevic on June 10, 2025 — the same day Mr. Litman demanded his name be removed from the website?"
  4. "On June 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM, you wrote to Mr. Litman that he should 'look into forensic accounting.' Were you aware that at 2:16 PM the same day, your paralegal was using clientservice@4patent.com — Mr. Litman's domain — to correspond with a returning Litman client about a patent transfer?"
  5. "After the new Jovancevic engagement was signed on June 23, how was Mr. Litman's 20% allocation handled on the 201081 docket?"
  6. "Is it NGM's position that client 201081 (Stevan Jovancevic) was NOT originated by Richard Litman, despite the 'RCL origination credit' designation in Martha Long's docketing instruction?"

10. SOURCE FILES

Source Location
Native .eml (Finding #71) evidence/martha_long_rcl_origination_20250624/martha_long_rcl_origination_20250624.eml
Extracted body evidence/martha_long_rcl_origination_20250624/body.txt
5 attachments evidence/martha_long_rcl_origination_20250624/attachments/
Original screenshot evidence/IMG_1314_MarthaLong_RCL_Origination_Credit.jpg
Companion "Work for Today" screenshot evidence/nathlaw_phone_photos/IMG_1449 (OCR'd)
ND0002 email thread Bates ND0000182269, 182302, 182536, 182537, 182551, 219710 + Stephen Leon 6/24
All 7digit Matters evidence/uncle_batch_2026-04-07/All 7digit Matters.csv rows 3265–3267
Updated Master Originated Clients evidence/uncle_batch_2026-04-07/Updated Master Originated Clients Adjusted.csv row 34
RL_RESP_CLIENT_SUMMARY output/RL_RESP_CLIENT_SUMMARY.csv row 840
Client-Docket Listing evidence/gmail_downloads_account2/attachments/Client-Docket_Listing_Formatted_2.csv row 909
NGM_Litman_Workup.xlsx Totals row 720 (32772.00 = $0); Revenue = 0 direct hits
Google Patents output/jovancevic_trace/US9699663_google_patents.html
OCR photo corpus evidence/ocr_vision_complete/2020__-_3279.txt, 202X__-_3026.txt, 202X__-_3230-3232.txt

End of trace.