Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Note on entity type: The structured case data names an individual, not a corporation. "Michael Davis" (also referenced in press materials as "Mike Davis") is a natural person — Senior Vice President of Licensing at Alliacense LLC — not an operating company. His sole tracked appearance is as a defendant in a state-court business dispute, not a patent infringement suit. Facts about his personal background (age, education, residence) could not be verified from public sources.
Company overview. Davis is identified in contemporaneous 2006–2009 press releases as Senior Vice President of Licensing for Alliacense, a Cupertino, California-based "TPL Group enterprise." Alliacense is the exclusive licensing agent for the Moore Microprocessor Patent (MMP) Portfolio. TPL Group (Technology Properties Limited, LLC) is a privately held entity founded in 1988; it co-owns the MMP portfolio with Patriot Scientific Corporation (OTCBB: PTSC), a small public company headquartered in Carlsbad, California. No revenue, headcount, or ownership details for Alliacense itself are publicly disclosed. Davis is not a shareholder-principal of either TPL or Patriot based on available sources.
Operations. Alliacense is an intellectual property monetization/licensing operation, not a product company. It markets and negotiates licenses to the MMP Portfolio — seven U.S. patents plus European and Japanese counterparts (notably U.S. 5,809,336, "dual asynchronous clock," and 5,784,584, "multiple instruction fetch") — which the owners claimed cover microprocessor, microcontroller, DSP, embedded-processor and SoC design techniques. Reporting describes roughly 70–80 licensees, including Intel, AMD, HP, Sony, Panasonic, Fujitsu, Toshiba and Bosch.
Litigation posture. Davis appears only as a defendant (1 case, 0 as plaintiff). The tracked matter, Charles H. Moore v. TPL Group et al. (Santa Clara County Superior Court No. 110CV183613, filed Sept. 28, 2010), is a contract/fiduciary suit by MMP inventor Chuck Moore against TPL, Alliacense and three officers — Daniel E. Leckrone, Daniel M. Leckrone and Davis — alleging fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract, with a preliminary-injunction motion noticed for Nov. 2, 2010. It is a California state-court action, not an ED Texas patent case.
Context. The suit followed Patriot Scientific's April 2010 actions against TPL in San Diego and Santa Clara over a $1M note and portfolio management. Patriot settled with TPL in January and October 2011; the outcome of Moore's claims against Davis individually is not documented in the sources reviewed.
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.