Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Let me verify Daniel M. Leckrone's role and Alliacense details.
Nature of the entity. Daniel M. Leckrone is an individual — an intellectual-property executive and attorney, not a company — so no corporate ticker, headquarters, employee count, or revenue band applies. Contemporaneous press coverage and court filings identify him as "Mac" Leckrone, president of Alliacense LLC, the IP-licensing subsidiary of The TPL Group (Technology Properties Limited) of Cupertino, California. The TPL Group is a privately held IP development and management firm founded in the late 1980s (published releases say 1988 or 1989).
Operations. Leckrone's role was patent licensing and assertion, not product manufacturing. As Alliacense president he ran the licensing program for the Moore Microprocessor Patent (MMP) Portfolio — seven U.S. patents plus European and Japanese counterparts, jointly owned by privately held The TPL Group and publicly traded Patriot Scientific Corp. (OTCBB: PTSC). The portfolio claimed fundamental microprocessor, microcontroller, DSP, embedded-processor, and system-on-chip technology. Alliacense put hundreds of manufacturers on infringement notice and signed licensees including HP, Intel, AMD, Sony, Fujitsu, Nokia, Nikon, and Sharp. Alliacense is therefore best characterized as a non-practicing licensing/assertion entity. A bio for "Mac Leckrone" at the Planay Law Firm says he founded and managed Alliacense; whether that is the same individual is not definitively confirmed here.
Litigation posture. The case data shows 0 appearances as plaintiff and 1 as defendant, consistent with an individual sued personally rather than an entity asserting patents. His single tracked matter is a state-court dispute, not an infringement action.
Notable case. In Charles H. Moore v. TPL Group et al. (Superior Court of Santa Clara County, No. 110CV183613, filed September 2010), Charles H. Moore — inventor of the Forth language and namesake of the MMP Portfolio — sued TPL Group, Alliacense, and officers Daniel E. Leckrone, Daniel M. Leckrone, and Michael Davis individually, alleging fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract and seeking preliminary injunctive relief over control of the MMP patents. This paralleled Patriot Scientific's separate contract suit against TPL, TPL's Eastern District of Texas infringement suits against Japanese manufacturers, and its 2012 ITC action against Amazon, Garmin, HTC, Nintendo, Samsung, and others over U.S. Patent 5,809,336 (expired around 2015).
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.