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Me Clients Exhibit Binder Summary

Middle-East Clients — § 51 Exhibit Binder Summary

Prepared: April 18, 2026 Case: Litman v. Goldberg, Index No. 524343/2025 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., Kings County) Theory: NY Civil Rights Law § 51 (misappropriation of name) — post-arbitration commercial-use record of the Litman identity in NGM client correspondence.

This memo rolls up the exhibit-binder treatment the client approved for KFU on 4/18/2026 across the remaining five Middle-East clients: KSU, UAEU, Kuwait U, SQU, and Qatar Foundation.

Scope and window

Candidate counts (NGM → client, post-arbitration, with USPTO-like attachment)

Client In-window emails Base candidates USPTO-like candidates % with subject descriptor Distinct dockets
KSU — King Saud University 6,362 6,339 6,051 62.8% 666
UAEU — United Arab Emirates University 1,725 1,717 1,477 71.8% 126
Kuwait U — Kuwait University 2,506 1,761 1,637 58.5% 159
SQU — Sultan Qaboos University 349 349 268 47.4% 33
QF — Qatar Foundation 56 55 42 54.8% 16
ME TOTAL (excl. KFU) 10,998 10,221 9,475 — 1,000
(KFU for reference) 17,203 14,033 14,033 65.7% 3,189

Willfulness-anchor findings

Search methodology: for each client, scan the 276,899-row Concordance DAT for Goldberg-authored emails (FROM matches goldberg|jbg@|jgoldberg) sent to the client domain in the window, body/subject containing phrases naming Litman in the third person ("our attorney", "Mr. Litman", "Richard Litman", "attorney of record", "Litman's [questions|review|comments]", "our patent attorney", etc.). A broader V2 search accepting any NGM sender and weaker plural phrasings ("one of our attorneys") was run for clients where V1 found nothing.

Client Anchor found? Bates Date Author Quote / phrase Strength
KSU YES LITMAN250428 2024-08-26 J. Goldberg "our attorney" (Notice of Allowance, Docket 33007.94) STRONG — Goldberg-authored, singular "our attorney", during post-SOL-safe window (post-7/21/2024)
UAEU YES (weaker) LITMAN267104 2024-06-11 J. Goldberg "one of our attorneys called the Examiner" (Docket 33090.41U) MEDIUM — Goldberg-authored but plural phrasing; still useful as a willfulness exhibit because Goldberg personally drafted the email naming UAEU and a Litman-era docket
Kuwait U NO Goldberg anchor (none) — — No Goldberg-authored emails to Kuwait U domains in the window naming Litman in the third person. Multiple Martha-authored candidates exist (top: LITMAN201595 2024-09-27, "Our attorney, Mr. Ninh…" — which actually names a DIFFERENT attorney, Ninh Le, not Litman). NONE — dig deeper: search native bodies not in BODY_PREVIEW, or internal NGM mail between Goldberg/Martha re: Kuwait U matters
SQU YES (weak) LITMAN249493 2023-07-12 J. Goldberg "our attorneys" (plural — "discussing this with Nick and Morgan") WEAK — Goldberg authored but explicitly names "Nick and Morgan" not Litman. Usable as a "Goldberg directing the client work" exhibit but NOT a clean Litman-as-attorney designation
QF NO anchor at all (none) — — Only 56 in-window emails to QF, none Goldberg-authored, none mention "our attorney" or Litman in third-person phrasing NONE — QF is a small-volume client; may require broadening to attachments (POA-style docs naming Litman) rather than body text

Top 5 anchor candidates aggregate (across all ME clients):

  1. LITMAN250428 — KSU, 2024-08-26, Goldberg, "our attorney" — Docket 33007.94 NOA — STRONGEST (post-SOL-safe, singular phrasing)
  2. LITMAN250429 — KSU, 2024-08-26, Goldberg, "our attorney" — Docket 33056.63 Issue Fee — also STRONG, companion to #1
  3. LITMAN267104 — UAEU, 2024-06-11, Goldberg, "one of our attorneys" — Docket 33090.41U
  4. LITMAN249493 — SQU, 2023-07-12, Goldberg, "our attorneys" — plural, weak
  5. (Kuwait U / QF — none found)

Binders produced

Layout is the 4/18/2026-approved KFU pilot: letter-page-per-exhibit with navy banner (or red ANCHOR banner), metadata grid, attachment table, body preview, § 51 legal-use statement, provenance line.

Client Tier File Exhibits Size Anchor
KSU Focused output/KSU_EXHIBIT_BINDER_100.pdf 101 (incl. anchor) 291 KB LITMAN250428
KSU Discovery output/KSU_EXHIBIT_BINDER_500.pdf 501 1.4 MB LITMAN250428
UAEU Focused output/UAEU_EXHIBIT_BINDER_100.pdf 101 286 KB LITMAN267104
UAEU Discovery output/UAEU_EXHIBIT_BINDER_500.pdf 501 1.4 MB LITMAN267104
Kuwait U Focused output/KUWAIT_U_EXHIBIT_BINDER_100.pdf 100 282 KB — (no anchor)
Kuwait U Discovery output/KUWAIT_U_EXHIBIT_BINDER_500.pdf 500 1.4 MB — (no anchor)
SQU Focused output/SQU_EXHIBIT_BINDER_100.pdf 101 286 KB LITMAN249493
SQU Full output/SQU_EXHIBIT_BINDER_268.pdf 268 747 KB LITMAN249493
QF Full output/QF_EXHIBIT_BINDER_42.pdf 42 125 KB — (no anchor)

9 binders total, 2,215 exhibit pages across the five ME clients.

Notes: - SQU discovery tier was 268 (the full candidate pool — 500 not reached). - QF only has 42 candidates total, so we produced a single full-pool binder rather than a 100 / 500 split. - Kuwait U and QF binders do not include an ANCHOR exhibit. They open directly with Exhibit 1 (top-ranked § 51 use). The cover page explicitly notes "no willfulness anchor identified for this client".

Gaps / follow-up

  1. Kuwait U willfulness anchor — dig deeper. Body-text is only BODY_PREVIEW (truncated); inspect full native .msg / .eml files for Kuwait U in the post-arbitration window. Also check KFU pattern — was Kuwait U routed via a kwu@4patent.com alias the same way KFU was via kfu@4patent.com? The alias inventory confirms kwu@4patent.com exists (see output/4PATENT_ALIAS_DEFINITIVE_COUNTS.csv). Possible that Goldberg emails used that alias and were filtered out of the Goldberg-authored set because the FROM field did not match goldberg (e.g., if an alias was used in FROM). Worth a second pass that scans FROM fields for kwu@4patent.com authored by Goldberg's account.
  2. QF willfulness anchor — likely does not exist. QF volume is 56 in-window emails; the client was a small matter-holder. The § 51 theory here rests on the USPTO-document commercial uses themselves, not on a witness-stand anchor. Consider dropping QF as a targeted "willfulness" exhibit vehicle and using it instead as a "volume even at smallest clients" example.
  3. SQU anchor is weak (LITMAN249493 names Nick + Morgan, not Litman). A stronger SQU anchor may exist if we relax the window or expand to internal NGM email, but as a third-party-to-client designation, this is the cleanest available. Consider pairing it with a post-7/21/2024 exhibit where Martha (not Goldberg) tells SQU "our attorney" about a Litman-era docket.
  4. UAEU anchor is plural ("one of our attorneys"). There is likely a better UAEU anchor if we expand the search to also accept bodies saying "Richard Litman" literally rather than "our attorney" — worth running a V3 that hits on any explicit Richard + Litman token pair.

Files produced

Generalized scripts (reusable for future clients): - scripts/inventory_client_exhibit_candidates.py — --client SLUG --client-name NAME --domain REGEX - scripts/build_client_exhibit_binder.py — --client SLUG --client-name NAME --volume N [--anchor BATES] [--anchor-caption TEXT]

Driver scripts (ME batch): - scripts/_run_all_me_inventories.py - scripts/_run_all_me_binders.py - scripts/_find_anchor_candidates.py and _v2.py

Per-client outputs: - 5 × ranked CSVs ({CLIENT}_EXHIBIT_CANDIDATES_RANKED.csv) - 5 × docket-rollup CSVs ({CLIENT}_EXHIBIT_CANDIDATES_BY_DOCKET.csv) - 5 × inventory memos ({CLIENT}_EXHIBIT_INVENTORY_MEMO.md) - 9 × binder PDFs (see table above)

Cross-client outputs: - output/ME_ANCHOR_CANDIDATES.csv — strong-phrase Goldberg anchor hits - output/ME_ANCHOR_CANDIDATES_V2.csv — broader NGM-author pool - output/ME_CLIENTS_EXHIBIT_BINDER_SUMMARY.md — this memo

Shared cache (for future re-runs): - output/.dat_attachment_index.pkl — pickle of the 276,899-row DAT index so subsequent client runs skip the 30-second scan.