Charles H. Moore

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Charles H. Moore — profil

Company overview. The entry "Charles H. Moore" in the case database is a natural person, not a corporation: Charles Havice "Chuck" Moore (b. 1938, McKeesport, PA; BS physics, MIT, 1960), the creator of the Forth programming language. He has no headquarters, revenue, or ownership status in the conventional corporate sense. His corporate affiliations include co-founding FORTH, Inc. (1971), Novix (1983), iTv Corp. (1995), IntellaSys (2005), and GreenArrays, Inc. — a private company founded 13 February 2009 in Incline Village, Nevada, where he serves as Chairman and CTO and which reported a core team of roughly 18–20 people. GreenArrays describes itself as a Nevada or Wyoming C corporation in different documents; no public revenue or valuation figures are available.

Products / services / operations. Moore's work spans the Forth language (with Elizabeth Rather), the ColorForth dialect, and stack-based minimal-instruction-set processors designed for low power: the Novix NC4000 (licensed to Harris as the radiation-hardened RTX2000), the Sh-Boom (1985, with Russell H. Fish III), MuP21, F21, c18, and IntellaSys multicore chips. GreenArrays' principal products are the GA144 144-computer asynchronous multicomputer chip, smaller GA parts, evaluation boards, and the arrayForth development software. He also developed the OKAD VLSI CAD tool and served as CTO of the TPL Group, licensor of the Moore Microprocessor Patent (MMP) portfolio.

Patent-litigation posture. Tracked data shows 0 cases as plaintiff and 2 as defendant. He is named as a declaratory-judgment co-defendant alongside Patriot Scientific Corp. and Technology Properties Ltd. (TPL) in the MMP patent disputes; he is the named co-inventor (with Russell H. Fish III) who asserted at least partial ownership of U.S. 5,809,336. He is not an NPE or an operating company being attacked in the conventional sense — he is an individual inventor/patent owner drawn into ownership and validity litigation.

Notable cases / context. The tracked matters are the N.D. Cal. actions brought by Japanese electronics manufacturers (Toshiba et al., No. C-05-04838 MHP, Oakland/San Francisco Division) against Patriot, TPL, and Moore, which the court stayed in March 2006 pending TPL's earlier E.D. Tex. infringement suits (e.g., TPL v. Fujitsu, 2:05-cv-00494). Context: the 7 June 2005 Master Agreement among Patriot, TPL, and Moore; a June 2004 Intel license naming Moore and TPL as licensors; and Moore's separate October 2010 Santa Clara Superior Court suit against TPL, Alliacense, and their officers alleging fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract. The MMP portfolio has been licensed to more than seventy companies.