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2009 May 11 Monday morning

A beautiful day in Incline Village. I drove back from the cabin yesterday afternoon in the Jeep. The drive from Sierraville to Truckee on back roads is one of my favorites. Notable was the great, always unexpected, basalt outcrop in the middle of a meadow. And I found Old Reno Rd, which I had seen on a map of the Emigrant Trail.

I want to explain why I removed the page Moore v TPL from this site, and why I'm putting it back: (By the by, Leckrone and TPL are one and the same)

I was told that Leckrone received a communication from Europe that a potential licensee had learned of the lawsuit, and chose to defer negotiations. He was anxious that this not be repeated; that the existence of the lawsuit not be publicized.

TPL has been represented by the lawfirm Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP in its litigation. Roger Cook has been lead attorney. (This is a matter of public record.) I have great respect for Mr Cook's ability and integrity.

He negotiated an agreement that if I removed Moore v TPL:

• TPL would restore the $30K/mth payment that was terminated in January
• He would prepare a written contract to that effect
• TPL would present an accounting of royalties due

I took down the web page and:

• Received the $30K on April 8; did not receive it on May 8
• Mr Cook dispaired of writing a contract acceptable to both me and Leckrone
• I received a 16-page 'Accounting' which claims all my royalties ($30M) go to expenses - without documentation

I conclude the agreement was not fulfilled. So: Status quo ante.

The reason I wanted a written contract was not that I don't trust Leckrone, but to get a mortgage to complete my house. Understandably, banks require you to prove your income. I had been receiving from TPL a $15K/mth advance on royalties for living expenses. In 2007 I purchased land in Incline Village. Rather than pay $2M he owed me, Leckrone agreed to pay a mortgage for me. Thereafter I received $30K/mth, $15K advance and $15K mortgage.

By reneging on that mortgage, Leckrone has placed me in a bind. So, what else is new?

2009 May 9 Saturday

It's Saturday morning. I'm at my cabin contemplating what to say on this blog. Weather is perfect: cool and bright. I can see snow on the Butte and patches on the hills. The cabin is at 5400 ft elevation and this is the first week-end I could get thru the driveway.

Apparently there was a rainstorm in the last weeks. My sled had some 9 inches of water in it. The wind was from the North, since rain penetrated the north-facing kitchen window. And the Yuba River and Deer Creek are running their highest this year. Deer Creek is so furious that the inlet for the pond is blocked. I can't even see it thru the white water.

My life is rich and full. Let me list the activities that keep it busy:

• Maintaining the cabin: house, spa, woods, pond
• Building a house: another house, spa and woods to maintain
• Creating a company, GreenArrays: employees, investors, customers
• Treating with TPL: royalties, IP
• Designing chips: colorForth, architecture, layout, packaging, documentation
• Contact with family: son, daughter-in-law, in-laws
• Having fun: tv, reading, hiking, driving
• Studying: web, physics, cosmology
• Other stuff pending

Insofar as I'm retired, I somehow don't fear boredom.

I just typed this as a trial run. But it occurs to me that the easiest way to transfer this file to my office computer is to post it to colorforth.com. So I will.

http://www.colorforth.com/vTPL.htm

Moore v TPL

TPL's threat is this: I've agreed not to interfer with the licensing program. And I certainly don't intend to.

Our agreement stipulates that disputes be resolved by Arbitration. But Leckrone claims that exercising that right would interfer. So I have no legal recourse? I don't think our justice system works that way.

So I'll try to defend my rights. And outline here some of the issues:

Royalty Payments

I'm not getting any.

Patent Ownership

TPL has falsely claimed ownership of MMP.

Commercialization Agreement

This is the Agreement I signed in 2003, when I was still young and naive. I would not sign such a thing now.

I had known Leckrone for 15 years. I thought he was my friend; that our interests were aligned; that I could trust both him and his judgement. I was wrong.

I'm not a lawyer, but this contract is bad. It's verbose, complicated, redundant and probably inconsistent. It doesn't say what it means or mean what it says. It requires adjudication, which is what a contract is supposed to avoid.