Missed it this morning, but FWIW here's the source of the hoax. It appears to be taken from the Feb 19, 2009 Shareholder letter.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/s...

Excerpt from Feb 19, 2009 letter:

Recent German Nullity Proceeding Victory by TPL

On February 2, 2009, TPL/Alliacense announced that the German Federal Patent Court in Munich affirmed the validity of DE 6,903,356 8T2, the German counterpart to EP 0,786,730. The affirmed German Patent and its EP counterparts cover technology utilized in a majority of microprocessor-based products manufactured and sold today. EP'730 is the European counterpart of the original MMP Portfolio application filed by TPL in 1989, which resulted in seven issued US patents.

Removed date, changed a name or two. Overall a rather poor job. Didn't even bother to put in the correct USPTO patent number--left in the German patent number.