Replies to post #69577 on e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

[resqjuc]

Lots of stuff about Chuck and Patriot from small investors...

> Www.agoracom.com/nonmemforum/m ain.asp?pgnum=1&topic=Patriot+ Scientific&tr
> =


A better web page to start reading about the topic is at
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/W EBONLY/wonews/jul04/0704npat.h tml
Here is a part of the discussion; patent disputes get very
complicated very fast. --

"Sometime before the granting of the ’336 patent, one
of the inventors, Fish, transferred his interest in the Sh-Boom
inventions to a family trust. The trust sold Fish’s interest to
a company called
Nanotronics, which, in 1994, sold it to Patriot. It is on the
basis of these transactions that Patriot believes itself to be
the sole owner of ’336."

"But on the patent itself, there are two inventors
listed, not one. And under U.S. law, a patent owned by more than
one person cannot be the basis for an infringement suit
unless all the owners sue. 'If one of them refuses, for whatever
reason,' says Beatie, 'you have a patent that is worthless.' "

" So while Fish, through the trust fund and then
Nanotronics, has assigned interest in the patents to Patriot,
Moore has not. In fact, says Beatie, Moore refuses to
participate in the infringement suit and has licensed his
coinventor rights to Technology Properties Ltd., an intellectual
property company based in San Jose, Calif. "

"Moore has been silent on the whole business. And
it is Technology Properties’ president, Daniel Leckrone, who is
'driving the rig,” says Beatie. And why won’t Moore participate
in the suits? According to Beatie, he and Technology Properties
“want money, which we are willing to give them. But they want a
lot of other, unreasonable things that we won’t give them.' At
press time, Leckrone had not responded to requests for comment."

"So the purpose of the suit against Moore,
Leckrone, and Technology Properties is to establish that despite
what it says on the patent, Fish alone invented the
high-speed clocking device. 'Fish has made some statements to
that effect,' says Beatie, 'And Moore has made some public
statements that tend to support it as well. So we have asked the
court in San Jose to give us a declaratory judgment, a ruling,
saying that in fact Patriot is the sole owner of the ’336
patent.' "