Daitona Carter moves for judicial notice of Meta and Bending Spoons corporate restructurings in Solos Technology appeal
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Pro se appellant Daitona Carter has filed a motion in the Federal Circuit requesting judicial notice of SEC filings and corporate maneuvers he claims Meta and Bending Spoons are using to wash title of disputed technology.
Pro se appellant Daitona Carter filed a motion on August 19, 2026, requesting that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit take judicial notice of a series of corporate restructurings and administrative filings. The motion, as documented by CourtListener, argues that these post-judgment developments involve Meta Platforms, Inc. and Bending Spoons S.p.A. in a "multi-forum closed loop" designed to block his participation in legal proceedings. The filing in case 26-1721 follows a district court's summary text-order denials of Carter's intervention. Carter claims that while this appeal was pending, a synchronized sequence of events occurred between June and August 2026. These events include initial public offerings, Department of Defense contract milestones, and new patent challenges. ## SEC Filings and the Sun Valley Nexus
According to the motion, Bending Spoons S.p.A. filed a Form F-1 registration statement with the SEC on June 8, 2026, for its initial public offering. Carter alleges this transition operationalizes a capital track dating back to a December 2023 SEC Form D filing. That earlier filing involved a $30,373,394 equity offering managed by Meta's advisor, Allen & Company LLC. The motion details a timeline surrounding the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference held from July 6 to July 11, 2026. Carter asserts that senior executives from Meta, EssilorLuxottica, and Bending Spoons convened during this period. He alleges that Allen & Company maintains interlocking control over the disputed architectures. An Allen & Company Managing Director currently holds a seat on the Bending Spoons Board of Directors. Carter also points to Meta's executive leadership, specifically President and Vice Chairman Dina Powell McCormick. The motion describes McCormick as a strategist leading Meta's AI and hardware portfolios. Carter claims this leadership structure coincides with the tracking of his "military-grade prototypes."
Parallel Administrative Challenges
On June 18, 2026, Meta Platforms and Luxottica Retail North America Inc. filed an Inter Partes Review (IPR) petition before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The petition, designated as Case No. IPR2026-00376, targets U.S. Patent No. 12,216,339. Carter characterizes this as an attempt to execute an "executive-forum end-run" around judicial review. On that same day, a Solos sister spin-off entity reportedly repurchased $18 million in shares from Kopin Corporation. The motion states this move secured structural control over display hardware and micro-display architecture used in the smart-glasses technology at the center of the dispute. ## Defense Infrastructure and Commercial Deployment
The motion connects the disputed technology to military applications. On July 14, 2026, Kopin Corporation announced it cleared three manufacturing milestones under the Department of Defense's Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment initiative. These milestones involve the Soldier Borne Mission Command tactical headset integration. Carter further alleges a direct commercial nexus between Bending Spoons and the defendants. He cites disclosures from Bending Spoons Global Partnerships Director Raoul Baccanelli. The disclosures reportedly document the entity's role in developing media formats for Ray-Ban's latest collection, which is a joint Meta and Luxottica project. Carter argues these records are necessary to expose how the appellees are using corporate restructurings to "wash" title. He claims Bending Spoons maintains custody of electronic evidence subject to a pending protective order request. The motion seeks to supplement the record to address what Carter calls a "judicial miscarriage."