I wonder what the verb to google, is worth to that company. Vaseline is petroleum jelly, not napalm or some plastic made from oil. The discussion of intellectual property seems timely, not that there's anything here worth pursuing, not like billions in movie copyright infringement.
Mitch Cotter made some great preamps early on. He split from Verion in the late '70's I believe. I didn't have much experience with those electric blue wonders, but what I heard sounded like music. This is a Boston Audio Society from '77.
http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/pdf/bass/BASS-05-09-7706.pdf