Guillermo Alfonso Salazar-Velasquez v. Robert Alan Soltis
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
CIVIL MINUTES – GENERAL
Case No. 5:25-cv-00323-SSS (SHK) Date: March 14, 2025 Title Guillermo Alfonso Salazar-Velasquez v. Robert Alan Soltis, et al.
Present: The Honorable: Sunshine Suzanne Sykes, United States District Judge
Irene Vazquez N/A Deputy Clerk Court Reporter / Recorder
Attorneys Present for Plaintiff: Attorneys Present for Defendants:
N/A N/A
Proceedings (In Chambers): Order to Show Cause Re: Venue
On February 3, 2025, Plaintiff, a federal inmate, filed a “Motion-Complaint.” [Dkt. 1]. On March 7, 2025, he filed a Request to Proceed Without Prepayment of Filing Fees. [Dkt. 3].
The Defendants are two private attorneys Plaintiff had hired in relation to Plaintiff’s patent application. [Dkt. 1 at 2]. Defendants allegedly “kept the Certificate issued by U.S. Patent Office from [Plaintiff], but they also took possession of the Patent without proper authorization from [Plaintiff] and have received monetary benefits of unknown amount from the invention and still refuse to communicate with [Plaintiff] as [Plaintiff] has tried unsuccessfully to communicate with both the…