Fish and Moore submitted to the USPTO with the help of Higgins what was then the 334 patent.

The USPTO determined that the 334 was actually seven different inventions. Had the application re-organized into as what is now the known as MMP Patent portfolio. This is apparently where the difficulties began. Sometime latter Fish and Moore had a falling out each sellling there rights to two different companies TPL and Patriot. Out of all the seven orignal inventions the 336 was the most potentially lucrative. That is the one Fish claimed to invent and Patriot inturn claimed ownership to.

Apparently Mr. Higgins knew who invented what.When Patriot tried to get him to testify,TPL opposed on the grounds of attorney client privledge.It was upheld on appeal by the attorneys who Higgins worked for. Patriot could not appeal the decision because in their agreement between they and TPL, bokered in part with the court decision,they promised not to appeal. TPL and Patriot were each given 50% rights to the whole portfolio.

I have believed for sometime now that the J2 are trying to invalidate the original patent application through falsification of inventorship. Originally they claimed 50-50 ownership but with the falling out one claims to have invented this or that.

However, I don't think it will be possible to circumvent the attorney client privledge. Fish must be now working with the J2. They are leaving no rock unturned in their fight. He must really be mad. Not only does he and Patriot lose the suit to TPL, he loses the suit with Patriot and then the Portfolio is named after his nemeses Moore.

AJMHO

GLTAL