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Charles H. Moore — profil
Company overview. The entry "Charles H. Moore" in the case database is a natural person, not a corporation: Charles Havice "Chuck" Moore (b. 1938, McKeesport, PA; BS physics, MIT, 1960), the creator of the Forth programming language. He has no headquarters, revenue, or ownership status in the conventional corporate sense. His corporate affiliations include co-founding FORTH, Inc. (1971), Novix (1983), iTv Corp. (1995), IntellaSys (2005), and GreenArrays, Inc. — a private company founded 13 February 2009 in Incline Village, Nevada, where he serves as Chairman and CTO and which reported a core team of roughly 18–20 people. GreenArrays describes itself as a Nevada or Wyoming C corporation in different documents; no public revenue or valuation figures are available.
Products / services / operations. Moore's work spans the Forth language (with Elizabeth Rather), the ColorForth dialect, and stack-based minimal-instruction-set processors designed for low power: the Novix NC4000 (licensed to Harris as the radiation-hardened RTX2000), the Sh-Boom (1985, with Russell H. Fish III), MuP21, F21, c18, and IntellaSys multicore chips. GreenArrays' principal products are the GA144 144-computer asynchronous multicomputer chip, smaller GA parts, evaluation boards, and the arrayForth development software. He also developed the OKAD VLSI CAD tool and served as CTO of the TPL Group, licensor of the Moore Microprocessor Patent (MMP) portfolio.
Patent-litigation posture. Tracked data shows 0 cases as plaintiff and 2 as defendant. He is named as a declaratory-judgment co-defendant alongside Patriot Scientific Corp. and Technology Properties Ltd. (TPL) in the MMP patent disputes; he is the named co-inventor (with Russell H. Fish III) who asserted at least partial ownership of U.S. 5,809,336. He is not an NPE or an operating company being attacked in the conventional sense — he is an individual inventor/patent owner drawn into ownership and validity litigation.
Notable cases / context. The tracked matters are the N.D. Cal. actions brought by Japanese electronics manufacturers (Toshiba et al., No. C-05-04838 MHP, Oakland/San Francisco Division) against Patriot, TPL, and Moore, which the court stayed in March 2006 pending TPL's earlier E.D. Tex. infringement suits (e.g., TPL v. Fujitsu, 2:05-cv-00494). Context: the 7 June 2005 Master Agreement among Patriot, TPL, and Moore; a June 2004 Intel license naming Moore and TPL as licensors; and Moore's separate October 2010 Santa Clara Superior Court suit against TPL, Alliacense, and their officers alleging fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract. The MMP portfolio has been licensed to more than seventy companies.
One of five declaratory judgment suits filed in December 2005 by roughly 20 Japanese electronics manufacturers against Patriot, TPL and Charles Moore, seeking declarations that the '584, '336 and '148 patents were not infringed and invalid.
Ownership dispute over the '336, '148, '584, '749, '915, '890 and '703 patents. It settled in June 2005, with TPL receiving the exclusive right to enforce/license the patents and a 50/50 net revenue split.
A group of about 20 Japanese electronics manufacturers filed five declaratory-judgment suits in December 2005 in the Northern District of California against Patriot, TPL, and Moore, seeking non-infringement and invalidity of three jointly owned MMP patents. The actions were consolidated/litigated through 2008-2010 before Judge Fogel. The '703 connection is portfolio-level and not identified as one of the three litigated patents.
Ownership and inventorship dispute over the seven Moore Microprocessor Patent portfolio patents, including U.S. Patent No. 5,604,915. The district court entered a stipulated final judgment in or about June 2005 dismissing Patriot's claims with prejudice and declaring Charles Moore at least a co-inventor and TPL at least a co-owner of all seven patents in suit, expressly including the '915 patent.