Defendant
3 cases as defendant.
Note on entity type: The name "Daniel Leckrone" in the case database is an individual, not a company. Searchable records indicate Daniel E. Leckrone, chairman of The TPL Group (Technology Properties Limited LLC), a privately held intellectual-property holding and licensing firm based in Cupertino/San Jose, California. A related individual, Daniel M. "Mac" Leckrone (Alliacense president), also appears in the record; it is not always clear which is meant. No ticker, headcount, or revenue figure for Leckrone personally could be verified.
Operations. TPL Group is an IP commercialization and licensing business, not a product manufacturer. Its enterprises include Alliacense LLC, the exclusive licensing agent for the Moore Microprocessor Patent (MMP) Portfolio, and IntellaSys, a chip-design unit that marketed SEAforth multicore processors, Indigita secure-connectivity devices, and OnSpec storage controllers. The MMP Portfolio — seven U.S. patents plus European and Japanese counterparts, jointly owned by TPL and publicly held Patriot Scientific Corp. (OTCBB: PTSC) — was licensed to roughly 70 companies, reportedly including Intel, AMD, HP, Sony and Toshiba.
Litigation posture. Leckrone appears once in the tracked data, as a defendant, in Patriot Scientific Corp. v. Technology Properties Ltd. et al. (N.D. Cal.). That matches Patriot's declaratory-judgment action against Moore, TPL and Leckrone over inventorship and ownership of the MMP patents (N.D. Cal. Case No. C 04-0618 JF). A stipulated judgment declared Moore at least a co-inventor and TPL at least a co-owner of all seven patents. Leckrone is thus not an NPE plaintiff of record here; portfolio enforcement ran through TPL, Alliacense and Patriot as plaintiffs, notably in the Eastern District of Texas and the ITC (Inv. No. 337-TA-853), with parallel N.D. Cal. declaratory actions by HTC, Acer, ASUS and Toshiba.
Context. Beyond the tracked case, Charles H. Moore sued TPL, Alliacense and both Leckrones in Santa Clara Superior Court in 2010 (fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract), and Brown v. Leckrone (Cal. Ct. App. 2014) addressed alter-ego claims against Leckrone over TPL funds.
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.
Patriot Scientific sued Technology Properties Ltd., Daniel Leckrone, and Charles Moore over ownership of the Moore Microprocessor Portfolio patents expressly including US 5,440,749 and others. The dispute was resolved/settled in June 2005, with TPL granted responsibility for commercialization and licensing.
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.