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1 case as defendant.
Let me verify the TPL Group's profile and Daniel Leckrone's role.
Note on the entity: "Daniel E. Leckrone" is an individual, not a company. He is the founder and chairman of The TPL Group (legal name Technology Properties Limited), a privately held intellectual-property development and licensing firm. He is tracked in the database only as a named individual defendant in one case; the operating entity behind the related activity is TPL/Alliacense.
TPL Group overview. TPL Group is a Cupertino, California–based IP holding and management firm founded in 1988 (privately held; no public ticker). It describes itself as "a coalition of high technology enterprises" doing IP development/management plus fabless system-on-chip design. No verified employee or revenue figures are publicly reported. TPL filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2012.
Products / operations. TPL itself does not sell end products; its business is patent portfolio development and licensing. Its subsidiary Alliacense managed the Moore Microprocessor Patent (MMP) portfolio — seven US patents plus European and Japanese counterparts covering microprocessor, DSP, embedded-processor, and SoC techniques — jointly owned with publicly traded Patriot Scientific Corp. Licensees reportedly included Intel, AMD, HP, Sony, Toshiba, and Fujitsu. TPL's IntellaSys enterprise marketed SEAforth multicore processors, Indigita secure-connectivity devices, and OnSpec storage controllers. This makes TPL a licensing/assertion entity rather than a conventional product operating company.
Litigation posture. Leckrone appears with 0 plaintiff and 1 defendant case. He was sued individually — alongside TPL Group, Alliacense, Daniel M. Leckrone, and Michael Davis — in Charles H. Moore v. TPL Group et al., Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California (Case No. 110CV183613, filed October 2010). He is a defendant, not an asserting party, in the tracked data.
Notable context. Charles H. Moore, inventor of the Forth programming language and co-inventor of the MMP portfolio, alleged fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract; the litigation settled in January 2013. Separately, TPL/Alliacense asserted MMP patents against Japanese electronics makers in the Eastern District of Texas, and Patriot Scientific sued TPL over contractual disputes. California appellate case Brown v. Leckrone (2014) addressed alter-ego claims against Leckrone regarding TPL funds.
State court dispute concerning ownership and administration of the MMP portfolio, of which U.S. Patent No. 5,604,915 is part. Moore alleged fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract against TPL Group, Alliacense, and their officers.