maybe i am wrong but when helmut hired both fish and moore they where hired by nanotronics to develop helmuts chip. employees or contracted when you work for bell labs you make it but it belongs to bell labs. both were paid by helmut. after helmut passed on a couple or a court case came up. the courts declared something if the patent was in your name you still owned it. thus fish and moore came back for more. this is really foggy in my mind but there is some generality here or have i been dreaming again ask a lawyer. helmut would have prevented this if he was aware of it. if i made this up helmut would have made them partners in nanotronics they were onl employed to design a chip not partners