Alliacense

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Alliacense — company profile

Overview. Alliacense LLC (also referenced in filings as Alliacense Limited) is a Cupertino, California–based patent licensing entity and a subsidiary of the privately held TPL Group (Technology Properties Limited), which was founded in 1988/1989 and is controlled by Daniel E. ("Dan") Leckrone. Alliacense was formed around 2005 after TPL merged its microprocessor patent interests with Patriot Scientific Corp. and took over licensing-program management. Alliacense is private; no public ticker, headcount, or revenue figures are disclosed in available sources. Management has included president Daniel M. ("Mac") Leckrone and licensing VPs Michael Davis, Roy Maharaj, and Joe Minville.

Products / operations. Alliacense has no manufacturing operations — it is a licensing program administrator, not a product company. It marketed the Moore Microprocessor Patent (MMP) Portfolio, jointly owned by TPL and Patriot Scientific, which covered CPU/I-O clock separation, multiple instruction fetch, and on-chip oscillator/embedded-memory techniques. It also handled the CORE Flash Portfolio (CFP) and, at TPL level, a Fast Logic portfolio. Alliacense's stated practice was to license end-product OEMs rather than chip makers.

Litigation posture. This is a patent-monetization/assertion entity: one plaintiff-side case (ITC) versus two defensive cases, reflecting both its affirmative enforcement campaign and the declaratory-judgment and contract suits that followed. It is not an operating company defending against NPE attack; it is the demand side. TPL sued accused infringers in the Eastern District of Texas (2008), a plaintiff-friendly venue, while parallel declaratory actions proceeded in N.D. Cal.

Notable cases. The ITC action (Alliacense/TPL v. multiple respondents, Inv. 337-TA-853, 2012) named 13 companies including Acer, Amazon, Samsung, HTC, Nintendo, Huawei, and ZTE; the ALJ found no infringement of the '336 patent in 2013, affirmed by the Commission in February 2014. Acer, Inc. v. Technology Properties Ltd. et al. (N.D. Cal., Judge Fogel) was a 2008 declaratory-judgment case. Charles H. Moore v. TPL Group et al. (Santa Clara Superior Court, 2010) alleged fraud and breach of fiduciary duty by the MMP inventor against TPL, Alliacense, and its officers.