FLEECED SHEEP wrote: "to clarify last week charles moore aka tpl's computer cowboy was able to convince intel associates of his, to lead to tpl signing a contract. at or about this same time we were waiting for the judge to rule whether we owned 50 percent or moore. it abruptly ended with us settling for 50 percent. now this enababled tpl and ptsc to license anyone individually. following i never did. this put us in a corner and had to do a stupid deal with amd. when you find out why they did this please pass it on. excuse me had to benefit someone."

I, too, don't understand how Moore ended up with 50% ownership of MMP.

I had worked with Helmut Falk Sr. in Monaco and Moscow (USSR) and some time later did some work with nanotronics and Helmut when "ShBoom" was still in prototype stage. At Helmut's request, and with his presence, I met Moore, Fish and McClurg at McClurg's house near Santa Cruz. Helmut wanted me to assess the situation and help prepare for production roll-out. I still have a few notes from that era. I recall discussing the need to patent the work. Some time later he asked me to meet with him and Woody Norris at Patriot's HQ in San Diego County. He offered me a senior position in the new company (i.e. nanotronics acquired into Patriot) but I declined purely for personal and family reasons. I do recall Helmut telling me at the time that he had invested millions in the project and had all the patents. An article quoting Woody in the San Diego Tribune somewhat concurs (see below).

With Helmut's untimely death I can think of only one person who would have recall of this entire saga. That person was an accountant who, as I remember, helped look after most of Helmut's finances including his personal/family wealth and his business. That person would, it seems, know how and why Helmut spent his money on nanotronics/ShBoom and would know of the patent attorneys he used at the time as well as any agreements with Fish/Moore/McClurg. That person is Gloria Felcyn.

If the PTSC BOD somehow caved in to the 50% claim by Moore then I have to assume that Gloria knew, from her long-term relationship with Helmut, that nanotronics/Helmut did not own the full rights - which is contrary to what Helmut told me and to what Woody said in his San Diego Tribune interview on June 23, 1996.
See http://www.woodynorris.com/articles/sandiegouniontribune3.htm

"After years of working on the project, Fish and Moore sold all rights to the ShBoom processor to the late Helmut Falk, a Romanian-born engineer who co-founded DH Technology, a high-technology printer manufacturer now based in San Diego.
By several accounts, Falk poured millions of dollars into improving the ShBoom design through NanoTronics, his wholly owned company based in Eagle Point, Ore,"